auto-update
Safeguard articles tagged "auto-update" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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The Agents on Your Hosts Have More Access Than Your Application
Four agents on every production host, each running as root or with kernel privileges, each auto-updating from its vendor, each sending data outward. Your application dependencies are pinned and scanned. These are neither.
Eighteen Minutes: The Nx Console Extension Compromise and the IDE Blind Spot
A poisoned VS Code extension was live for eighteen minutes. In that window, auto-update pushed it into every developer environment with Nx Console installed — including a GitHub employee's device, leading to exfiltration of internal GitHub repositories. Your IDE extensions have no SBOM, no review, and a direct push channel to your engineers.
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