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GitHub starts alerting developers of security vulnerabilities in dependencies

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Nov

2017

Popular Git repository hosting service GitHub has introduced a new feature to help developers keep their projects safer: security alerts for vulnerabilities in software packages which their projects depend on. Read More

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What is Heartbleed? A coding error that caused a security crisis

13

Sep

2017

Heartbleed is a vulnerability that came to light in April of 2014; it allowed attackers unprecedented access to sensitive information, and it was present on thousands of web servers, including those running major sites like Yahoo. Heartbleed was caused by a flaw in OpenSSL, an open source code library that implemented the Transport Layer Security […]

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Custom code accounts for 93% of application vulnerabilities

25

Jul

2017

Although third-party software libraries represent a majority of an application’s code, they account for less than seven percent of application vulnerabilities. Typically, applications contain both custom code – the code developed by an organization – and third-party libraries.

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