Open Source Security
PyPI Supply Chain Attacks: Q1 2024 Roundup
Q1 2024 brought typosquats, stealer campaigns, and a week-long new-user freeze on PyPI. Here is what the attacks looked like and how to defend.
Feb 23, 20265 min read
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1Password Secrets Automation in CI
1Password has quietly become a credible secrets backend for CI/CD. A walkthrough of Connect, Service Accounts, and the CLI patterns that make 1Password Secrets Automation work in a build pipeline.
Feb 23, 20267 min read
Industry Analysis
Corporate OSS Contribution Policies
Google, Microsoft, Red Hat, and a long tail of smaller companies have built contribution policies that shape how their engineers participate in open source. The policies vary more than most assume.
Feb 23, 20267 min read
Guides
How to Write a Vulnerability Disclosure Policy Developers Respect
Most VDPs are lawyer documents nobody reads. Here is how to write one with real safe harbor, honest SLAs, and an intake path researchers will actually use.
Feb 23, 20267 min read
Security Concepts
Malware Types: A Practitioner's Taxonomy
A reference list of all malware types by how they spread and what they do — worms, trojans, ransomware, rootkits, and the rest — because knowing the category tells you what defense actually stops it.
Feb 23, 20266 min read
DevSecOps
Azure DevOps YAML Pipeline Hardening
A practical, line-by-line walk through hardening Azure DevOps YAML pipelines — template injection, task version pinning, approvals, and the defaults that will bite you.
Feb 23, 20267 min read
DevSecOps
Container Security Scanning in 2024: Benchmarks, Tools, and What Actually Matters
Container image scanning tools vary widely in detection rates, false positive rates, and coverage. Here is a practical assessment of the container security scanning landscape in 2024.
Feb 23, 20266 min read
Engineering
SLSA Level 3 in Practice: What It Takes
SLSA Build L3 is achievable in a week per repo if you use a hosted builder — and nearly impossible if you insist on rolling your own. Here is the practical path.
Feb 23, 20266 min read
AI Security
Dependency Upgrade Picks: Griffin AI vs Mythos
The version a remediation tool picks matters more than the fact that it picked one. Griffin AI grounds its choice in the project; Mythos-class tools do not.
Feb 23, 20267 min read
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