CVE Program Almost Unfunded

Mitre's CVE's program--which provides common naming and other informational resources about cybersecurity vulnerabilities--was about to be cancelled, as the US Department of Homeland Security failed to renew the contact. It was funded for eleven more months at the last minute. This is a big deal...

CVE-2022-29218

RubyGems is a package registry used to supply software for the Ruby language ecosystem. An ordering mistake in the code that accepts gem uploads allowed some gems with platforms ending in numbers, like arm64-darwin-21 to be temporarily replaced in the CDN cache by a malicious package. The bug has...

Software Supply Chain Attacks: From Formjacking to Third Party Code Changes

2020 wasn’t the first year in which software supply chain attacks caused major damage, but it certainly brought them to the general public. Much has been said about the headline-grabbing nation state examples, but there is a wide spectrum of these attacks and some are commoditized. Protecting...