Gitpaste-12: A dozen exploits that silently lived on GitHub, attacked Linux servers

Just months after Octopus Scanner was caught infecting 26 open-source projects on GitHub, new reports have already surfaced of another, new sophisticated malware infection. Gitpaste-12, a worming botnet, is extremely versatile in ...

Turkish Banking Agency Mandates Better Software Supply Chain Hygiene

Today, application attacks and breaches are often the result of easily exploited – and easily rectified – open source vulnerabilities. While we hope companies would self-regulate their cybersecurity hygiene in our software ...

NIST: Adopt a Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) to Mitigate Risk of Software Vulnerabilities

This Spring, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), released updated recommendations (.pdf) to improve software resilience against vulnerabilities. This builds on an earlier, four-part framework released last year. As the ...

Managing Nexus API Using Jenkins X

In my last post, Jenkins X — Managing Jenkins, I talked about how we manage our Jenkins server. This time around, I’ll be looking at the Nexus server and how it too ...

Why Manual Verification Still Matters

In the last few years, we’ve continuously been hearing that we should automate, automate, automate. So it might be weird to hear that manual verification still matters. Jeroen Willemsen explains to us ...

“Each for Equal”: 2020 International Women’s Day Theme Resonates in DevSecOps Because It Is a Business Issue

“Equality is not a women's issue, it's a business issue.” -- International Women’s Day website International Women’s Day began in America in 1911; today, millions of people around the globe mark March ...

Beyond npm Audit to Traverse an Increasingly Complex Dependency Tree

If you've been immersed in the Node.js/JavaScript community for awhile, or even if you are just getting started, you are likely using npm audit to scan package dependencies in your projects. It's ...

For Distributed Teams, It’s Not All About the Tools

Sonatype is a distributed workforce. Most of us work remotely, and we are hiring. But before you apply, do you know what it means to work on such a team? ...

Gartner: You Must Assess Overall Software Health and Welfare

Gartner’s recent report Technology Insight for Software Composition Analysis, makes four open-source security recommendations that companies should think about when determining what type of software composition analysis program they want to have ...
Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary

Tara Hernandez Talks Code Rush, Google, DevOps

Shortly after watching the documentary, Code Rush, I met with Tara Hernandez, the hockey stick carrying lead of the Netscape project that was being documented ...