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.
Between 2023 and 2024 the VS Code Marketplace saw a string of typosquat, hijack, and impersonation incidents that shaped Microsoft's eventual hardening response. This is a composite postmortem of what happened, what changed, and what is still broken in 2026.
Mozilla Add-ons applies mandatory signing, a stricter review path for extensions that touch broad permissions, and a separately maintained recommended-extensions program. Here is what that buys defenders in 2026 and where the gaps still are.
Legitimate Chrome extensions keep getting acquired and turned malicious, and content_scripts give the new owner code execution inside every user's browser session. Here is why the pattern keeps working in 2026 and what defenders can do about it.
Baseboard management controllers run their own operating system below your hypervisor, ship as binary blobs from vendors like AMI and Insyde, and almost never appear in an SBOM. The MegaRAC incidents made that gap impossible to ignore.
On May 5, 2026, CISA launched CI Fortify, pushing critical infrastructure operators to plan for cyberattacks that sever their connections to the internet and telecom during a geopolitical crisis. We unpack the isolation and recovery objectives and what they demand of software supply chains.
EO 14144 set ambitious supply chain rules for federal software in January 2025. EO 14306 in June reshaped them. Here is what survived, what changed, and what to plan for.
A 2026 hardening guide for Azure DevOps Pipelines: service connections, workload identity federation, approval gates, agent isolation, and SLSA integration.
The Scorecard v6 roadmap introduces conformance labels (PASS/FAIL/UNKNOWN/NOT_APPLICABLE/ATTESTED) layered over the same probe evidence, aligning Scorecard output with the OSPS Baseline for registry-side trust decisions.
Semgrep's April 2026 release added dedicated advisory pages, dependency path data in SBOM exports, a Guardian Supply Chain hook, and Maven/Gradle scanning without lockfiles.
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