National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is observed every October as a way to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity, but despite the efforts to provide a safer and more secure Internet — problems still remain. In 1998, a group of computer hackers went in front of the Senate to warn them about cyber security. The … continue reading
Top law enforcement officials are urging Facebook to stop its privacy initiative. In an open letter to Facebook, government officials from the United States, United Kingdom and Australia told Facebook it should not proceed with its plans without “including a means for lawful access to the content of communications to protect our citizens.” It also … continue reading
The rise of DevSecOps has stressed the importance of shifting security left in order to provide better protection. A recently released report, though, found shifting left isn’t enough. In order for security to be viewed as more than just an extra step, it needs to be built into the entire life cycle. Puppet, CircleCI and … continue reading
The security aspect of DevOps is evolving as new data found a new wave of engineering-led software security efforts originating bottom-up in the development and operations teams rather than top-down from a centralized software security group (SSG). Software security initiatives (SSIs) have identified a number of individuals (often developers, testers, and architects) who are invested … continue reading
The code analysis platform provider Semmle wants to expand its reach with the announcement that it is joining GitHub. Together, the companies will work on addressing a big issue in open-source software: security. RELATED CONTENT: Going to school on open-source security “Software security is a community effort; no single company can find every vulnerability or … continue reading
This week’s open-source project of the week is Token4Hope, a charity project powered by the DCore blockchain intended to draw transparency and security to charitable contributions. “When we realized that often charitable donations lack transparency and people would donate substantially more if they knew where exactly their funds go, we decided to propose our version … continue reading
Microsoft announced the August 2019 release of Visual Studio Code 1.38, adding updates as well as new features. Some of the key highlights include the ability to keep letter casing across multi-file search/replace; to check min, max, enum values and glob patterns; quick navigation features; and links to MDN documentation directly from IntelliSense. The full … continue reading
The rise in attacks against the software supply chain is one outgrowth of vulnerabilities in open-source code that go unnoticed and therefore unpatched, a problem that has escalated despite the best efforts of enterprise development teams. As many recent high-profile breaches have underscored, it takes little for an overlooked patch to wreak havoc. Even those … continue reading
The search for good cybersecurity talent is a struggle facing companies across the industry — a problem that is only likely to get worse over the next few years. According to a report from CNBC in March, there are nearly 3 million open positions globally for security professionals. The hiring shortage is expected to grow … continue reading
As computing moves from on-premises to the public cloud and the edge, protecting has data has become more complex, prompting Intel, Google, Microsoft, the Linux Foundation and other technology partners to launch a cross-industry effort for organizations to safely share data insights through the Confidential Computing Consortium. RELATED CONTENT: Microsoft tackles data sharing between organizations “The … continue reading
AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Forecast, which enables developers to build applications with the same machine learning technology used by Amazon.com for forecasting business conditions. According to the company, Amazon Forecast automatically discovers how variables such as product features, seasonality and store locations affect each other and can make predictions that are up … continue reading
The short answer is never. There, I just saved you enough time that you can go and do the right thing and run SAST and DAST and work on hardening your code, instead of trying to test security into your application. Look, every time a new technology, process, or technique comes along there are some … continue reading
