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Sigstore has announced the general availability of its free software signing service,
According to the announcement, Sigstore “provides a set of tools designed to improve supply chain security by making it easy to sign, verify and check the software developers are building and consuming.”
Sigstore functionality...
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The OpenSSL Project Team has announced that the November 1st update to OpenSSL 3.0.7 is a security-fix release. “The highest severity issue fixed in this release is CRITICAL,” the notice states.
That means “come Nov. 1, everyone — and I mean everyone — will need...
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As part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the U.S. Biden-Harris administration recently detailed new initiatives to further the nation’s cybersecurity goals and “lock its digital doors,” reports Scarlett Evans.
The latest plan “includes the rollout of a labeling system for commonly used IoT products, rating each...
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Not all software engineering is the same, “and edge programming has some special constructs, constraints and caveats that mark out its differences,” says Adrian Bridgwater.
Edge sensors themselves, Bridgwater notes, “are often simple units of hardware that run a comparatively simple single program. The memory...
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Software supply chain attacks have increased by “an astonishing 742 percent” in the past three years, according to the 8th Annual State of the Software Supply Chain Report from Sonatype.
The report, which looks at the state of open source software consumption along with persistent...
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RedMonk has compiled a graph tracking the movement of the top 20 programming languages over the history of its rankings.
In the top half of the rankings, there’s been relatively little movement, as seen in the following list which shows current (and starting) rankings for...
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The number of unfilled security jobs around the world increased to 3.4 million during the past year — an increase of 26 percent — according to a new report from (ISC)². In the United States alone, the number of unfilled jobs rose 9 percent...
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Google is seeking contributors to a new open source initiative called Graph for Understanding Artifact Composition (GUAC), as part of its efforts to help secure the software supply chain.
The free tool, which can be found on GitHub, brings together different sources of software security...
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For seven years running, the most commonly used passwords on the web have been “123456” and “password”—the two most commonly used passwords on the web, reports Scott Gilbertson.
Many of us don’t know what makes a good password and aren’t able to remember hundreds of...
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The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model is a standard for how computers, servers, and people communicate within a system, writes Anamika.
“The OSI model provides a universal language for describing networks and thinking about them in discrete chunks, or layers,” Anamika says.
Learn the basics of...
