The Six-Month PEAR go-pear.phar Installer Compromise
How a single tampered PEAR go-pear.phar installer sat undetected on pear.php.net for months, what it could do, and what the PHP ecosystem learned about supply chain trust.
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.
How a single tampered PEAR go-pear.phar installer sat undetected on pear.php.net for months, what it could do, and what the PHP ecosystem learned about supply chain trust.
Go binaries are now a preferred malware delivery format — statically linked, cross-platform, and hard to fingerprint. Here's what the trend data shows.
In April 2019, Docker Hub exposed 190,000 accounts' credentials and GitHub/Bitbucket tokens. Here's what happened, what leaked, and why it still matters for supply chain security.
A runc escape trilogy, a gRPC-Go bypass, and a lingering SSH auth flaw reveal how concentrated risk in Go now shapes the cloud native vulnerability landscape.
A practical, no-hype comparison of open source SBOM generation tools — Syft, Trivy, cdxgen, Microsoft sbom-tool, SPDX Tools, and Tern — plus what to check before you pick one.
A trend analysis of Go standard library CVEs from HTTP/2 Rapid Reset to crypto/x509 parsing bugs — and why "it's stdlib" is not a safe-harbor assumption.
A practical buyer's guide to SBOM management platforms in 2026 -- evaluation criteria plus an honest look at six real vendors and where each one falls short.
Fine-tuning corpora are supply chain artifacts. We cover the provenance signals, attestations, and drift controls enterprises need before pushing weights to prod.
Go's GOSUMDB checksum verification is meant to be on by default, but Safeguard's research found roughly 1 in 6 CI pipelines quietly disable it.
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