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2025 Bug Bounty Program Reforms: What Changed
From Microsoft's AI bounty expansion to the EU CRA's good-faith researcher protections, bug bounty rules of engagement shifted meaningfully in early 2025.
Feb 4, 20255 min read
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Space Industry Software Supply Chain: Emerging Reality
COTS software, mega-constellations, and export controls are colliding. The space sector's software supply chain risk is shifting faster than its tooling.
Dec 28, 20246 min read
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The 2024 End-of-Year Vulnerability Disclosure Report
A look back at vulnerability disclosure in 2024: counts, severity distribution, time-to-patch, and the handful of incidents that shifted practice. Numbers, not narrative.
Dec 18, 20246 min read
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MITRE ATT&CK Meets SSDF: A Mapping
ATT&CK describes how adversaries operate; SSDF describes how to build software that resists them. Here's how to map adversary techniques to secure-development tasks so your threat model drives real engineering change.
Dec 18, 20247 min read
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OpenTelemetry for Supply Chain Traces: Instrumenting the Pipeline
How OpenTelemetry turns CI/CD pipelines into a traceable, queryable graph that exposes supply chain risk from source control to production deployment.
Dec 18, 20247 min read
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Azure Sentinel for Supply Chain Detection
Sentinel has everything it needs to detect supply chain attacks in Azure — but only if the analytics rules are tuned to what those attacks actually look like.
Dec 15, 20248 min read
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BlackTech Firmware Supply Chain Operations
BlackTech's firmware implants in Cisco routers turned edge devices into long-dwell footholds. A look at the tradecraft and what defenders missed.
Dec 15, 20246 min read
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OSS Code of Conduct: Security Impact
Codes of conduct are not just social documents. They affect maintainer retention, contributor diversity, and ultimately the security posture of the project.
Dec 12, 20246 min read
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Open Source Security Funding in 2024: Who Pays for the Code We All Depend On
Despite growing recognition that open source underpins critical infrastructure, security funding remains fragmented and insufficient. A look at the numbers and what needs to change.
Dec 10, 20247 min read
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