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Safeguard articles tagged "dependency-scanning" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.

42 articles

Application Security

Finding vulnerable code hidden inside shaded and uber JARs

JFrog found 65% of Log4Shell-affected artifacts embedded raw .class files instead of a jar — invisible to scanners that only read pom.xml metadata.

Jul 16, 20266 min read
Buyer's Guides

Best software composition analysis tools for mobile appli...

A no-hype comparison of mobile SCA tools for scanning iOS and Android dependencies, generating SBOMs, and catching open-source vulnerabilities before release.

Jul 13, 20267 min read
Security Guides

Python Dependency Scanning: A Practical Guide

Your code is a small fraction of what ships. This is how to inventory, scan, and continuously monitor the Python dependency tree that makes up the rest.

Jul 8, 20265 min read
Vulnerability Management

The libwebp heap overflow that patched half the internet: CVE-2023-4863

One heap buffer overflow in a 15-year-old image codec forced Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Electron apps, and entire Linux distros to ship emergency patches within days.

Jul 8, 20266 min read
AppSec

Python Vulnerability Scanner: How It Works and What to Use

A Python vulnerability scanner checks your code and dependencies for known security flaws. Here is how the different scanner types work and how to combine them in CI.

Jul 4, 20266 min read
Buyer's Guides

The Best Dependency Scanning Tools in 2026

Dependency scanning is crowded and the tools differ more than the marketing suggests. This balanced guide compares Dependabot, Snyk, Mend, Trivy, Socket, and Safeguard on accuracy, prioritization, and remediation.

Jul 4, 20266 min read
AppSec

SCA Solution: How to Choose Software Composition Analysis

An SCA solution inventories your open-source dependencies and flags the ones with known vulnerabilities or risky licenses. Here is what separates a good one.

Jul 1, 20265 min read
AppSec

Semgrep SCA: How Reachability Changes Dependency Scanning

What Semgrep SCA (Supply Chain) does, how its reachability analysis cuts alert noise, where it fits, and how to run it in CI.

Jun 28, 20266 min read
Guides

How to Secure a Monorepo Without Slowing Every Team Down

Monorepo security fails when every check runs on every commit. Path-filtered CI, CODEOWNERS, per-workspace scanning, and merge queues fix that.

Jun 24, 20266 min read
Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2017-18640: Denial of service via SnakeYAML alias ent...

CVE-2017-18640 lets attackers crash Java services by abusing SnakeYAML's YAML alias/anchor expansion. Here's what's affected and how to fix it.

Jun 22, 20267 min read
Security

Security Testing Tools for Mobile Applications: What Actually Finds Bugs

A practitioner's guide to the security testing tools for mobile applications that matter — SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and runtime instrumentation — and how to combine them without drowning in noise.

Jun 19, 20267 min read
Buyer's Guides

SCA language and package manager coverage comparison

See how Safeguard and Black Duck differ on SCA language and package manager coverage, detection methodology, and transitive dependency depth.

Jun 14, 20267 min read

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