Tag: programming
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New UK Security Guidelines Aims to Reshape Software Development
The voluntary Software Security Code of Practice is the latest initiative to come out of the United Kingdom to boost best practices in application security and software development. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/uk-security-guidelines-boost-software-development
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A new Lazarus arises for the fourth time for Pascal programming fans
And if it’s your first time around, there’s a whole new free book on FreePascal First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/05/09/new_lazarus_4/
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Kaspersky Alerts on AI-Driven Slopsquatting as Emerging Supply Chain Threat
Tags: ai, cyber, cybersecurity, kaspersky, microsoft, programming, risk, software, supply-chain, threat, vulnerabilityCybersecurity researchers at Kaspersky have identified a new supply chain vulnerability emerging from the widespread adoption of AI-generated code. As AI assistants increasingly participate in software development-with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott predicting AI will write 95% of code within five years-a phenomenon called >>slopsquatting
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What Vibe Coding, MCP, and Slopsquatting Reveal About the Future of AI Development
Join us as we explore the transformative changes in software development and cybersecurity due to AI. We discuss new terminology like ‘vibe coding’, a novel, behavior-focused development approach, and ‘MCP’ (Model Context Protocol), an open standard for AI interfaces. We also address the concept of ‘slopsquatting,’ a new type of threat involving AI-generated… First seen…
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AI’s Double-Edged Sword in Software Development
Rain Capital’s Chenxi Wang Warns About AI’s Emerging Role in Coding. AI can significantly accelerate code generation – helping developers go from idea to implementation in minutes – but AI-generated code is frequently based on insecure or flawed examples found in public code repositories, explains Chenxi Wang, founder and general partner at Rain Capital. First…
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Hackers Weaponize Go Modules to Deliver Disk”‘Wiping Malware, Causing Massive Data Loss
Tags: attack, cyber, cybersecurity, data, exploit, github, hacker, malicious, malware, programming, sans, supply-chainCybersecurity researchers uncovered a sophisticated supply chain attack targeting the Go programming language ecosystem in April 2025. Hackers have weaponized three malicious Go modules-github[.]com/truthfulpharm/prototransform, github[.]com/blankloggia/go-mcp, and github[.]com/steelpoor/tlsproxy-to deploy devastating disk-wiping malware. Leveraging the decentralized nature of Go’s module system, where developers directly import dependencies from public repositories like GitHub sans centralized gatekeeping, attackers exploit namespace…
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Rethinking Cybersecurity With AI Agents
Anthropic’s Jason Clinton Discusses the Benefits and Challenges of AI Agents. AI agents will be crucial in the software development life cycle to eliminate bugs, improving the quality of software, which could significantly reduce security vulnerabilities. Although managing AI agents for identity and access controls will be hard, said Jason Clinton, CISO at Anthropic. First…
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Why CISOs Are Adopting DevSecOps for Secure Software Development
CISOs adopting DevSecOps strategically enhance security measures while ensuring fast-paced software development, responding to the growing landscape of cyber threats. Integrating security practices throughout the entire development lifecycle is critical for organizations seeking to reduce vulnerabilities without sacrificing innovation speed. The DevSecOps Imperative DevSecOps builds upon the DevOps foundation by embedding security practices directly into…
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Top 10 Software Development Practices That Are Shaping Business Success
The stark reality of today’s business world: two similar companies can launch identical products, yet within months, one thrives while the other struggles. What separates success from stagnation? Increasingly, it’s not just what a company builds, but how they build it. Behind every market-leading digital product stands a foundation of exceptional software development practices. These…
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🚀 Agentic Runtime Protection Rules Makes Us the First Truly Self-Writing Security System – Impart Security
Agentic Runtime Rules: The First Self-Writing Security System for Runtime The End of Manual Security Management Is Here Say goodbye to regex repositories and ticket fatigue”, Impart delivers instant detections and autonomous investigations for security teams. For years, security teams have been trapped in reactive mode. Every investigation, detection rule update, or WAF configuration change…
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AirBorne and Dangerous: Hacking Through the Soundwaves
Researchers Uncover Bugs in Apple’s AirPlay, Risking Takeover of Smart Devices. Vulnerabilities in wireless streaming protocol AirPlay could expose Apple operating system devices to remote code execution by enabling attackers to infiltrate networks through trusted connections. The flaws are in the software development kit used by third-party manufacturers. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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Apple ‘AirBorne’ flaws can lead to zero-click AirPlay RCE attacks
Tags: apple, attack, data-breach, flaw, programming, rce, remote-code-execution, software, vulnerabilityA set of security vulnerabilities in Apple’s AirPlay Protocol and AirPlay Software Development Kit (SDK) exposed unpatched third-party and Apple devices to various attacks, including remote code execution. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/apple-airborne-flaws-can-lead-to-zero-click-airplay-rce-attacks/
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AI looms large on the RSA Conference agenda
Rise of the machines: Charlie Lewis, a partner at management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., similarly predicted that consolidation in cloud security and security operations were key industry trends likely to be showcased during the RSA Conference.”Enterprises need to integrate security into their software development practices,” Lewis told CSO. Enterprises need to deploy AI-based technologies…
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Wallarm Extends API Security Reach to AI Agents
Wallarm at the 2025 RSA Conference announced that, starting this summer, it will extend the reach of its platform for securing application programming interfaces (APIs) to include artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Tim Erlin, vice president of product for Wallarm, said the Agentic AI Protection capability added to the platform makes it possible to thwart attack..…
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Harness Adds Traceable WAAP to Secure Web Apps and APIs
Harness today unfurled a cloud web application and application programming interface (API) protection (WAAP) platform that makes it simpler for security operation (SecOps) teams to defend application environments. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/04/harness-adds-traceable-waap-to-secure-web-apps-and-apis/
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10 key questions security leaders must ask at RSA 2025
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, authentication, automation, business, cisa, ciso, cloud, conference, control, corporate, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, endpoint, fido, finance, gartner, google, government, healthcare, infrastructure, microsoft, mitigation, mitre, monitoring, mssp, network, nist, passkey, password, phone, programming, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, software, strategy, switch, threat, tool, training, vulnerability, zero-trustIs agentic AI more myth than reality?: Building on 2024’s AI enthusiasm, this year will be all about agentic AI, defined as “a type of AI that enables software systems to act autonomously, making decisions and taking actions based on goals, with minimal human intervention,” according to AI itself (source: Google Gemini). We’ll see lots…
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Introducing Rust in SonarQube
The popularity of the Rust programming language is growing. Rustaceans have been asking for SonarQube to support Rust and now it’s here! First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/04/introducing-rust-in-sonarqube/
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Update these two servers from Gladinet immediately, CISOs told
Tags: access, attack, ciso, cloud, control, credentials, data, defense, email, network, programming, risk, skills, update, vulnerabilityC:\Program Files (x86)\Gladinet Cloud Enterprise\root\web.config, although it has also been seen in this path as well: C:\Program Files (x86)\Gladinet Cloud Enterprise\portal\web.config. Similarly, Triofox web.config files could be in two locations: C:\Program Files (x86)\Triofox\root\web.config and C:\Program Files (x86)\Triofox\portal\web.config.The weakness can be leveraged to abuse the ASPX ViewState, a mechanism used to preserve the state of a…
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Tails 6.14.2 Released with Critical Fixes for Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities
The Tails Project has urgently releasedTails 6.14.2, addressing critical security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel and the Perl programming language. This emergency release is vital for users who rely on Tails’ security and privacy features, following the discovery of multiple flaws that could compromise system safety. Critical Security Vulnerabilities Addressed The most significant updates in…
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AI Awful at Fixing Buggy Code
LLMs Falter on Real-world Bugs, Even With Debugger Access: Microsoft. Artificial intelligence can code but it can’t debug says Microsoft after observing how large language models performed when given a series of real world software programming tests. Most LLMs struggle to resolve software bugs, even when given access to traditional developer tools such as debuggers.…
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CodeSecure and FOSSA Partner to Deliver Single Integrated Platform for Binary and Open Source Analysis
Consolidated capabilities enable customers to create comprehensive software bill of materials and eliminate security blindspots across the software development lifecycle BETHESDA, Md., Apr. 9, 2025 CodeSecure, a leading global provider of application security testing (AST) solutions, and FOSSA, the complete software supply chain platform, today announced a strategic partnership and native product integration that”¦ First…
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The Silent Threat in CI/CD: How Hackers Target Your Automation?
Let’s enter the world of software development! Automation has now become the heartbeat of contemporary DevOps practices. However, on the backdrop, the threat associated with it has been growing at a similar rate. Tools like GitHub Actions are known to streamline workflows by automating the testing process, deployment, and integration tasks. As the world talked……
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The risks of entry-level developers over relying on AI
Tags: ai, attack, awareness, best-practice, cio, ciso, compliance, cybersecurity, exploit, jobs, law, malicious, open-source, programming, resilience, risk, skills, software, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerabilityThe risks of blind spots, compliance and license violation: As generative AI becomes more embedded in software development and security workflows, cybersecurity leaders are raising concerns about the blind spots it can potentially introduce. “AI can produce secure-looking code, but it lacks contextual awareness of the organization’s threat model, compliance needs, and adversarial risk environment,”…
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Critical flaw in Apache Parquet’s Java Library allows remote code execution
Experts warn of a critical vulnerability impacting Apache Parquet’s Java Library that could allow remote code execution. Apache Parquet’s Java Library is a software library for reading and writing Parquet files in the Java programming language. Parquet is a columnar storage file format that is optimized for use with large-scale data processing frameworks, such as…
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AI programming copilots are worsening code security and leaking more secrets
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, attack, authentication, best-practice, breach, ceo, ciso, container, control, credentials, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, github, government, incident response, injection, least-privilege, LLM, monitoring, open-source, openai, password, programming, risk, skills, software, strategy, tool, training, vulnerabilityOverlooked security controls: Ellen Benaim, CISO at enterprise content mangement firm Templafy, said AI coding assistants often fail to adhere to the robust secret management practices typically observed in traditional systems.”For example, they may insert sensitive information in plain text within source code or configuration files,” Benaim said. “Furthermore, because large portions of code are…