Deep dives, practical guides, and incident analyses from engineers who build Safeguard. No fluff, no vendor FUD — just what you need to ship secure software.
Malicious packages on PyPI surged in 2021, targeting developers with credential stealers, backdoors, and data exfiltration. Here's what the campaigns look like and how to defend against them.
The maintainer of colors and faker deliberately corrupted his own packages, affecting thousands of projects. It raised uncomfortable questions about open source sustainability and trust.
Open source powers the modern internet, but its security model is under strain. Here's the 2021 landscape of open source risk, from funding to maintainer burnout to malicious packages.
Attackers hijacked the ua-parser-js npm package account and published malicious versions containing cryptominers and password stealers. The package gets 8 million downloads per week.
The Rust Foundation launched February 8, 2021. Here is what its formation actually changed for the security of Rust and downstream ecosystems.
The 2018 event-stream incident was npm's first high-profile maintainer-handoff attack. The details still shape how we evaluate package trust.
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