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Unpacking the security complexity of no-code development platforms

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Unpacking the security complexity of no-code development platforms 2025-06-13 at 09:02 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Amichai Shulman, CTO at Nokod Security, discusses how the abstraction layer in no-code environments complicates security by obscuring data flow, identity propagation, and control logic. Shulman also addresses why vulnerabilities in no-code applications go far […]

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Shift left strategy creates heavy burden for developers

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Shift left strategy creates heavy burden for developers 2025-05-23 at 07:32 By Help Net Security While 47% of organizations claim to have implemented shift left security strategies, many still struggle with execution gaps and security inefficiencies, according to Pynt. Of those who haven’t implemented shift left, half of them have no plans to do so

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Package hallucination: LLMs may deliver malicious code to careless devs

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Package hallucination: LLMs may deliver malicious code to careless devs 2025-04-14 at 15:46 By Zeljka Zorz LLMs’ tendency to “hallucinate” code packages that don’t exist could become the basis for a new type of supply chain attack dubbed “slopsquatting” (courtesy of Seth Larson, Security Developer-in-Residence at the Python Software Foundation). A known occurrence Many software

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OSPS Baseline: Practical security best practices for open source software projects

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OSPS Baseline: Practical security best practices for open source software projects 2025-02-28 at 14:49 By Help Net Security The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), a cross-industry initiative by the Linux Foundation, has announced the initial release of the Open Source Project Security Baseline (OSPS Baseline), a tiered framework of security practices that evolve with the

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China-based Silver Fox spoofs healthcare app to deliver malware

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China-based Silver Fox spoofs healthcare app to deliver malware 2025-02-25 at 18:33 By Zeljka Zorz Silver Fox, a China-based threat actor that may or may not be backed by the Chinese government, has been delivering the ValleyRAT backdoor to unsuspecting users by disguising the malware as legitimate healthcare app (the Philips DICOM viewer), a Windows

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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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The XCSSET info-stealing malware is back, targeting macOS users and devs

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The XCSSET info-stealing malware is back, targeting macOS users and devs 2025-02-17 at 19:50 By Zeljka Zorz A new, improved variant of the XCSSET macOS malware has been spotted “in limited attacks” by Microsoft’s threat researchers. XCSSET macOS malware XCSSET in information-stealing and backdoor-injecting malware targeting Mac users. It’s usually distributed via infected Xcode projects

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Malicious ML models found on Hugging Face Hub

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Malicious ML models found on Hugging Face Hub 2025-02-10 at 15:52 By Zeljka Zorz Researchers have spotted two machine learning (ML) models containing malicious code on Hugging Face Hub, the popular online repository for datasets and pre-trained models. Once one of them is downloaded and executed on the developer’s machine, the malicious payload checks if

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GitHub CISO on security strategy and collaborating with the open-source community

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GitHub CISO on security strategy and collaborating with the open-source community 2025-01-13 at 07:06 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security, Alexis Wales, CISO at GitHub, discusses how GitHub embeds security into every aspect of its platform to protect millions of developers and repositories, ensuring it remains a trustworthy platform for building secure software.

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Time for a change: Elevating developers’ security skills

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Time for a change: Elevating developers’ security skills 2025-01-13 at 06:07 By Help Net Security Organizations don’t know their software engineers’ security skills because they don’t assess them in the interview process. Trying to do that in an interview is challenging, of course, given the time it takes for a proper assessment. However, given the

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GitLab CISO on proactive monitoring and metrics for DevSecOps success

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GitLab CISO on proactive monitoring and metrics for DevSecOps success 2025-01-09 at 07:32 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Josh Lemos, CISO at GitLab, talks about the shift from DevOps to DevSecOps, focusing on the complexity of building systems and integrating security tools. He shares tips for maintaining development speed, fostering collaboration,

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Cybercriminals used a gaming engine to create undetectable malware loader

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Cybercriminals used a gaming engine to create undetectable malware loader 2024-11-27 at 20:33 By Zeljka Zorz Threat actors are using an ingenious new way for covertly delivering malware to a wide variety of operating systems and platforms: they have created a malware loader that uses Godot Engine, an open-source game engine. The loader – dubbed

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Active network of North Korean IT front companies exposed

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Active network of North Korean IT front companies exposed 2024-11-21 at 16:18 By Zeljka Zorz An analysis of the websites belonging to companies that served as a front for getting North Korean IT workers remote jobs with businesses worldwide has revealed an active network of such companies originating in China. Unearthing North Korean IT front

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GitHub Secure Open Source Fund: Project maintainers, apply now!

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GitHub Secure Open Source Fund: Project maintainers, apply now! 2024-11-20 at 15:42 By Zeljka Zorz GitHub is calling on maintainers of open source projects to apply for the newly opened Secure Open Source Fund, to get funding and knowledge to improve the security and sustainability of their software. The program is funded by companies (AmEx

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Overreliance on GenAI to develop software compromises security

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Overreliance on GenAI to develop software compromises security 2024-11-20 at 06:07 By Help Net Security GenAI is quickly changing the software development process by automating tasks that once took developers hours, if not days, to complete, bolstering efficiency and productivity, according to Legit Security. “As GenAI transforms software development and becomes increasingly embedded in the

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The number of Android memory safety vulnerabilities has tumbled, and here’s why

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The number of Android memory safety vulnerabilities has tumbled, and here’s why 2024-09-26 at 15:32 By Zeljka Zorz Google’s decision to write new code into Android’s codebase in Rust, a memory-safe programming language, has resulted in a significant drop in memory safety vulnerabilities, despite old code (written in C/C++) not having been rewritten. The number

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Critical GitHub Enterprise Server auth bypass flaw fixed (CVE-2024-6800)

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Critical GitHub Enterprise Server auth bypass flaw fixed (CVE-2024-6800) 2024-08-22 at 15:31 By Zeljka Zorz A critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-6800) affecting all currently supported versions of GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) may allow attackers to gain unrestricted access to the instance’s contents. The issue, reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program, has been addressed and administrators are

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Observations from Black Hat USA 2024, BSidesLV, and DEF CON 32

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Observations from Black Hat USA 2024, BSidesLV, and DEF CON 32 2024-08-16 at 12:46 By Help Net Security I recently spent six days in Las Vegas attending DEF CON, BsidesLV, and Black Hat USA 2024, where I had the opportunity to engage with and learn from some of the top security experts in the world.

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Coding practices: The role of secure programming languages

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Coding practices: The role of secure programming languages 2024-07-30 at 06:31 By Mirko Zorz Safety and quality are not features that can be added through testing — they must be integral to the design. Opting for a safer or more secure language or language subset during implementation can eliminate entire categories of vulnerabilities. The Software

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One-third of dev professionals unfamiliar with secure coding practices

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One-third of dev professionals unfamiliar with secure coding practices 2024-07-19 at 07:01 By Help Net Security Attackers consistently discover and exploit software vulnerabilities, highlighting the increasing importance of robust software security, according to OpenSSF and the Linux Foundation. Despite this, many developers lack the essential knowledge and skills to effectively implement secure software development. Lack

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