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RIFT: New open-source tool from Microsoft helps analyze Rust malware

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RIFT: New open-source tool from Microsoft helps analyze Rust malware 2025-06-30 at 13:01 By Mirko Zorz Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center has released a new tool called RIFT to help malware analysts identify malicious code hidden in Rust binaries. While Rust is becoming more popular for its speed and memory safety, those same qualities make malware […]

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Vulnerabilities found in NASA’s open source software

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Vulnerabilities found in NASA’s open source software 2025-05-27 at 15:48 By Zeljka Zorz Vulnerabilities in open source software developed and used in-house by NASA could be exploited to breach their systems, claims Leon Juranić, security researcher and founder of cybersecurity startup ThreatLeap. The vulnerabilities Juranić, whose AppSec credentials include founding and leading DefenseCode, is no

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PRevent: Open-source tool to detect malicious code in pull requests

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PRevent: Open-source tool to detect malicious code in pull requests 2025-02-20 at 16:52 By Zeljka Zorz Apiiro security researchers have released open source tools that can help organizations detect malicious code as part of their software development lifecycle: PRevent (a scanner for pull requests), and a malicious code detection ruleset for Semgrep and Opengrep static

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Detecting vulnerable code in software dependencies is more complex than it seems

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Detecting vulnerable code in software dependencies is more complex than it seems 2024-09-18 at 07:31 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Henrik Plate, CISSP, security researcher, Endor Labs, discusses the complexities AppSec teams face in identifying vulnerabilities within software dependencies. Plate also discusses the limitations of traditional software composition analysis (SCA) solutions

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MobSF: Open-source security research platform for mobile apps

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MobSF: Open-source security research platform for mobile apps 2024-03-14 at 07:30 By Mirko Zorz The Mobile Security Framework (MobSF) is an open-source research platform for mobile application security, encompassing Android, iOS, and Windows Mobile. MobSF can be used for mobile app security assessment, penetration testing, malware analysis, and privacy evaluation. The Static Analyzer is adept

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RiskInDroid: Open-source risk analysis of Android apps

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RiskInDroid: Open-source risk analysis of Android apps 2024-03-06 at 07:30 By Mirko Zorz RiskInDroid (Risk Index for Android) is an open-source tool for quantitative risk analysis of Android applications based on machine learning techniques. How RiskInDroid works “A user should be able to quickly assess an application’s level of risk by simply glancing at RiskInDroid’s

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What does optimal software security analysis look like?

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What does optimal software security analysis look like? 31/08/2023 at 07:01 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Kevin Valk, co-CEO at Codean, discusses the consequences of relying solely on automated tools for software security. He explains how these tools can complement human knowledge to enhance software security analysis and emphasizes the need

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