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org.opencontainers.image.source: OCI Labels for Provenance

The org.opencontainers.image.source label ties a container image back to the repository that built it — a small string with outsized value for provenance, registry linking, and supply chain security.

May 7, 20267 min read
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Snyk SBOM Generation: How It Works

How Snyk builds a software bill of materials from a dependency scan, what formats it exports, and where teams still need to fill gaps manually.

May 5, 20265 min read
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SCA Security: What Software Composition Analysis Actually Catches

SCA security scans the open source dependencies that make up most of your codebase, finding known CVEs, risky licenses, and malicious packages. Here is what it catches — and what it does not.

Apr 30, 20267 min read
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How to Avoid Malicious Code: A Practical Defense Checklist

How to avoid malicious code in practice: control what you install, control what runs at install time, and control what your build can reach. A working checklist for teams.

Apr 30, 20267 min read
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What Is SBOM Security, and Why Does It Matter?

SBOM security is the practice of using a software bill of materials to actually find and act on risk in your dependencies, not just to produce a compliance document.

Apr 26, 20264 min read
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Private Registry Hardening in 2026: How Nexus Firewall and JFrog Curation Closed the Mirror-Pass-Through Gap

Through 2025-2026, Sonatype Nexus Firewall, JFrog Curation, and Harness Artifact Registry shipped policy features specifically aimed at the Shai-Hulud pass-through problem, where private mirrors silently replicated malicious upstream packages.

Apr 22, 20267 min read
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Open Source Sustainability Is an Attack Surface Problem

Unmaintained, underfunded open source is not just a reliability risk — it is how attackers get in. The xz Utils backdoor proved that maintainer burnout is a security vulnerability with a CVE number.

Apr 16, 20266 min read
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copy-webpack-plugin and terser-webpack-plugin: Build Pipeline Hygiene

The copy-webpack-plugin npm package and terser-webpack-plugin sit in almost every webpack build. Here's how to configure both without leaking files or shipping stale minifiers.

Apr 14, 20266 min read
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Open Source Dependency Scanners: A Buyer's Checklist

A practical checklist for evaluating an open source dependency scanner — ecosystem coverage, reachability analysis, license detection, and how each handles transitive dependencies.

Apr 14, 20265 min read
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