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Open Source Security

Managing Open Source Component Risk at Scale

A modern app's dozen direct dependencies can resolve into thousands of transitive packages — and CVE-2024-3094 proved a single unmaintained one is enough to backdoor SSH itself.

Jul 7, 20268 min read
Open Source Security

Should open source maintainers get free enterprise security tooling?

80-90% of the average codebase is open source, built largely by unpaid maintainers — Snyk's year-old maintainer program now covers 60+ projects for free.

Jul 7, 20266 min read
Open Source Security

Protestware via prompt injection: when maintainers target AI agents

jqwik 1.10.0 shipped a hidden instruction telling AI coding agents to delete their own tests, then erased it from the terminal with ANSI codes — protestware built for agents, not humans.

Jul 7, 20267 min read
Open Source Security

Software Composition Analysis (SCA) Explained

SCA finds every open-source package in your app — but knowing it's there isn't knowing it's exploitable. Here's what Log4Shell, xz, and Snyk's approach got right and wrong.

Jul 4, 20267 min read
Open Source Security

Dependabot security updates and automated dependency pull...

Dependabot opens patch PRs from known CVEs, but backlogs pile up and malicious packages slip through. Here's what it misses versus GitHub Advanced Security.

Jun 30, 20267 min read
Open Source Security

Dependabot malware detection in open source packages

Dependabot catches known vulnerabilities, not injected malware. Here's how GitHub Advanced Security handles malicious packages — and where the gaps remain.

Jun 29, 20267 min read
Open Source Security

Auto-triage rules for Dependabot pull requests at scale

Dependabot floods teams with PRs, but not every alert deserves equal attention. Here's how auto-triage rules cut noise at scale, and where GHAS falls short.

Jun 29, 20268 min read
Open Source Security

faster_log and async_println: Rust's First Public Wallet-Stealing Crates

On September 24, 2025, crates.io removed faster_log and async_println — Rust typosquats that had quietly stolen Ethereum and Solana keys from 8,424 downloads since May.

Jun 25, 20265 min read
Open Source Security

How Snyk Container detects application-level dependencies...

A mechanical look at how Snyk Container scans image filesystems to detect npm, pip, Maven, and other application dependencies bundled inside containers.

Jun 13, 20267 min read

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