Supply Chain Security
When the Security Tool Is the Backdoor
CCleaner, tj-actions, and ua-parser-js show the same pattern: trusted tools with CI access became the attack, hitting 2.27M+ users and 23,000+ repos.
Jul 8, 20266 min read
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Security Practices for GitHub Copilot and AI Coding Assistants
Copilot suggested 2,702 hardcoded secrets from just 900 prompts in one study, and at least 200 were live credentials — adoption without policy is a leak waiting to happen.
Jul 8, 20266 min read
Open Source Security
The security risk of LLMs reviving abandoned open-source packages
USENIX Security 2025 found 19.7% of LLM code samples hallucinate a package name — and real, dormant packages carry the same blind trust.
Jul 8, 20267 min read
Supply Chain Security
Securing SBOM storage and distribution in cloud environments
GitGuardian found 23.77 million secrets exposed on public GitHub in 2024 alone — an unprotected SBOM repository is the same mistake, just with your dependency tree instead.
Jul 8, 20267 min read
Cloud Security
The S3 bucket security checklist every AWS team needs
AWS made Block Public Access the default for new S3 buckets in April 2023 — but the Capital One breach exposed 106 million records through IAM, not a bucket setting.
Jul 8, 20267 min read
AI Security
Securing LLM and Model Supply Chains
JFrog found roughly 100 malicious model files on Hugging Face in 2024 alone — model weights are now a build-pipeline attack surface, and most teams have no SBOM for them.
Jul 8, 20266 min read
Kubernetes Security
Hardening Amazon EKS With Native AWS Controls
AWS secures the EKS control plane and etcd — everything else, from IAM to security groups to node OS patching, is on you under the shared responsibility model.
Jul 8, 20267 min read
AI Security
Securing AI-Generated Code: The New Risk Surface
40.73% of Copilot's suggested code contains a vulnerability, and one 2024 study found nearly 1 in 5 AI-recommended packages simply don't exist.
Jul 8, 20266 min read
AI Security
A Checklist for Reviewing AI-Generated Code Before It Merges
19.7% of packages LLMs recommend don't exist in real registries, per a 576,000-sample USENIX 2025 study — here's what to check before merging AI-written code.
Jul 8, 20267 min read
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