supply-chain-security
Safeguard articles tagged "supply-chain-security" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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CocoaPods trunk supply chain vulnerability report
Three CocoaPods trunk server flaws sat unpatched for a decade, exposing 1,866 orphaned pods to takeover. Here's what happened and how to defend your dependencies.
Swift Package Manager vulnerability trends
Typosquats, thin CVE coverage, and an executable manifest format: inside the Swift Package Manager vulnerability trends security teams can't ignore.
Introducing Safeguard Academy: Free Courses and Certifications for Supply Chain Security
We're launching Safeguard Academy — a free learning platform at academy.safeguard.sh with curated courses, an AI tutor in every course, course communities, live sessions, and publicly verifiable certifications. The first credential is the Safeguard Certified Practitioner.
Malicious iOS SDKs and CocoaPods report
CocoaPods trunk server CVEs and the SourMint SDK scandal reveal how malicious iOS SDKs and pods slip past App Review for years.
Anatomy of a malicious npm package attack
One phished maintainer, 18 packages, and billions of weekly downloads — how npm/PyPI supply chain attacks actually unfold, and the signals that expose them.
Why Node.js's vm module is not a security sandbox
Node's own docs warn the vm module isn't a security mechanism — vm2, built on top of it, still shipped two CVSS 9.8 sandbox escapes in 2023.
A four-surface framework for software supply-chain risk
Supply-chain attacks are up 650% year over year, per the SLSA framework — yet most teams still map risk to one surface instead of four.
Top open-source vulnerabilities in the npm ecosystem
Sonatype logged 512,000+ malicious npm packages in a year — a 156% jump. Here are the recurring vulnerability classes and how to catch them in CI.
Recurring vulnerability patterns in the PyPI ecosystem
PyYAML shipped two rounds of deserialization fixes in under two years — CVE-2017-18342 and CVE-2020-14343 — because the underlying pattern kept resurfacing.
Typosquatting and dependency confusion: a defense guide
In 2021 one researcher got code execution inside 35+ companies for $130,000+ in bounties — without exploiting a single vulnerability. Here's how to close the gap.
Best API security testing tools
A practical, no-hype comparison of API security testing tools — from OWASP ZAP to Salt Security — covering REST/GraphQL coverage, posture management, and real tradeoffs.
The XZ Utils backdoor: anatomy of a supply chain attack
A two-year maintainer-trust takeover placed a pre-auth SSH backdoor inside xz-utils. Heres how CVE-2024-3094 was built, hidden, and caught in time.
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