environment: Unicode's bidirectional (BiDi) override characters can cause trojan source attacks

A flaw was found in the way Unicode standards are implemented in the context of development environments, which have specialized requirements for rendering text. An attacker could exploit this to deceive a human reviewer by creating a malicious patch containing well placed BiDi characters. The...

RHEL 7 : binutils (RHSA-2021:4033)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:4033 advisory. The binutils packages provide a collection of binary utilities for the manipulation of object code in various object file formats. It includes the ar...

Cloud is King: 9 Software Security Trends to Watch in 2021

IT security professionals have largely spent the year managing a once-in-a-generation workforce shift from office to home in 2020. With the initial push over, experts predict that 2021 will be focused on shoring up the cloud and re-imagining organizational workflows under this new normal. Softwar...