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Rust Foundation Formation: Security Implications
The Rust Foundation launched February 8, 2021. Here is what its formation actually changed for the security of Rust and downstream ecosystems.
Jan 1, 20266 min read
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SunBurst: A Supply Chain Attack Evolution Study
The SolarWinds SunBurst campaign rewrote the supply chain threat model. Five years of research reveal what changed and what defenders still miss.
Jan 1, 20266 min read
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Shellshock, Five Years On: The Lessons That Stuck
Five years after CVE-2014-6271, Shellshock remains the clearest case study in how one interpreter bug becomes thousands of downstream holes.
Jan 1, 20266 min read
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Heartbleed at Five Years: A Practitioner Retrospective
Five years after CVE-2014-0160, Heartbleed still shapes how we think about shared cryptographic libraries, disclosure ethics, and open-source funding.
Jan 1, 20266 min read
Incident Analysis
ASUS Live Update and ShadowHammer: The Backdoor
Operation ShadowHammer pushed a signed backdoor to roughly half a million ASUS laptops, targeting a list of 600 specific MAC addresses.
Jan 1, 20267 min read
Incident Analysis
XcodeGhost: When the Compiler Was the Attacker
XcodeGhost in 2015 infected at least 128 million iOS users through a malicious Xcode download. It is still the cleanest compiler-trust case.
Jan 1, 20267 min read
Open Source Security
event-stream: The Copay Attack That Rewrote npm
The 2018 event-stream incident was npm's first high-profile maintainer-handoff attack. The details still shape how we evaluate package trust.
Jan 1, 20266 min read
Incident Analysis
CCleaner 2017: Anatomy of a Quiet Supply Chain Hit
The CCleaner backdoor of 2017 was among the first modern build-system compromises to achieve mass distribution through a trusted installer.
Jan 1, 20267 min read
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Equifax: The Supply Chain Angle Few Talked About
The 2017 Equifax breach is a case study in Apache Struts, inherited dependencies, and a vulnerability management process that mistook lists for action.
Jan 1, 20267 min read
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