Security News

Gits exposed, kinky app devs spanked, Feds spy on spyware buyers, etc
2018-09-08 09:46

Mac APT unearthed and other infosec bits and bytes summarized just for you Roundup This week brought with it a Supermicro shoring up firmware security, a North Korean hacking charge, and a spying...

Hey you smart, well-paid devs. Stop clicking on those phishing links and bringing in malware muck on your shoes
2018-07-25 19:02

At Node Summit, coders served some humble pie Software developers have been lionized in recent years for their influence over the information economy. At the Node Summit in San Francisco,...

Devs know application security is important, but have no time for it
2018-04-17 12:10

Sonatype polled 2,076 IT professionals to discover practitioner perspectives on evolving DevSecOps practices, shifting investments, and changing perceptions, and the results of the survey showed...

Security? We've heard of it, say web-app devs. 31 in 33 codebases have at least one big bad vuln
2018-04-16 19:06

HTTP 404: Secure code not found Automated source code analysis of 33 web applications has found that 94 per cent of them have at least one high-severity vulnerability, according to security biz...

Buggy Verge crypto-cash gets hacked, devs go fork themselves, hard
2018-04-01 00:00

Alt-currency's value tumbles amid malicious mining mishaps The Verge cryptocurrency has seen its value drop by 25 per cent after hackers exploiting a bug in the alt-coin's software forced its...

Microsoft is Shutting Down CodePlex, Asks Devs To Move To GitHub (The Hackers News)
2017-04-03 03:12

Microsoft has announced to shut down CodePlex -- its website for hosting repositories of open-source software projects -- on December 15, 2017. Launched in 2006, CodePlex was one of the...

New Google Tools Help Devs Improve Content Security Policy Protection (Threatpost)
2016-09-27 15:44

Google released CSP Evaluator and CSP Mitigator to aid developers in building better Content Security Policy protections for web applications.