Tag: open source
Report Identifies Top 10 Open Source Software Risks
Endor Labs, a provider of a platform for managing open source software, published a report that classifies the top 10 open source software risks of 2023. The company published the list as ...
Sysdig Launches Wireshark Foundation
Sysdig this week announced there is now a Wireshark Foundation that will oversee future development of the widely used open source traffic protocol analyzer. Gerald Combs, who is now director of open ...
Dev of core-js Will Flip Table ¦ Another 451 PyPI Maldeps
Richi Jennings | | core-js, Denis Pushkarev, JavaScript, open source, PyPi, Russia, Software Supply Chain, Software Supply Chain Security, softwaresupplychain, supply chain attacks, supply chain security, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: Denis Pushkarev is fed up with core-js freeloaders, and hundreds more malicious packages found at PyPI ...
Fiberplane Adds Wasm Plug-in Framework for DevOps Notebook
Fiberplane today announced it is extending the reach of a real-time collaboration notebook designed for DevOps teams by making available tools for building plug-ins based on the WebAssembly (Wasm) framework. Micha Hernandez ...
OpenAI Hires 1,000 Low Wage Coders to Retrain Copilot ¦ Netflix Blocks Password Sharing
Richi Jennings | | ChatGPT, Codex, github, GitHub Copilot, gitops, microsoft, Netflix, open source, OpenAI, password policies, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: ChatGPT darling OpenAI wants people to write code in English, and the unintended consequences of blocking shared accounts ...
Massive Number of Transitive Dependencies Traced to Open Source Code
An analysis of nearly 2,000 software packages published by Endor Labs found 95% of all application vulnerabilities can be traced back to a transitive dependency created when a developer used an open ...
How Devs Can Improve Open Source Security in the Enterprise
Modern applications are dynamic. They’re distributed and they’re often born in the cloud. These applications can be developed on the fly, spun up and scaled quickly to meet evolving user and market ...
Why SaaS Vendors Need to Give Back to Open Source
There aren't many tech organizations that don’t leverage open source technology. Companies that refuse to import software will rely on a freely available library tool or codebase. Open source is one of ...
Securing Open Source Components in a World of Mixed Committer Motivations
Our world runs on software that contains open source components. This places an increased burden on developers, as the primary consumers and deployers of those components, to use code that is fully ...
Critical Vulnerability Discovered in Open Source Backstage Platform
Oxeye today disclosed that it has discovered a critical vulnerability in the open source Backstage software used to build developer portals. Backstage was originally created by Spotify. A 1.5.1 update to the ...
Building Higher-Quality Software With Open Source CD
Business is accelerating, and experience– for customers, partners and employees–is everything. This means nearly all applications need to be enhanced with new features, security updates and bug fixes on ever-shorter cycles. But ...
Cisco Adds Open Source Tool to Validate Serverless Functions
Cisco has launched an open source project, dubbed FunctionClarity, that makes it possible to verify signatures before code is deployed in a serverless computing environment. Vijoy Pandey, vice president of emerging technologies ...
