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By Jonathan Leitschuh; Daniel Elkabes, Senior Security Researcher at WhiteSource; Ofir Keinan, Software Developer at WhiteSource The latest Maven release 3.8.1 contains a fix to security vulnerability CVE-2021-26291. Detected and reported by security researcher Jonathan Leitschuh, the vulnerability affects over 100,000 libraries in Maven Central, according to the WhiteSource security research and knowledge teams.

Are you a DigitalOcean vendor or user and developing or deploying a Kubernetes application? You may want to preserve your cluster configuration, backup your persistent volumes to protect them from ransomware, accidental deletion, and long-term retention policies. CloudCasa is the only data protection and disaster recovery solution that has been tested and certified as a 1-Click appliction with DigitalOcean Kubernetes and available in their marketplace.

Snyk is a developer-first, cloud native security platform that scans for vulnerabilities across code, dependencies, containers, and infrastructure as code. Snyk does a great job of surfacing vulnerabilities in your codebase, but it can often be challenging to map these issues back to actual services and their owners. Fortunately, Snyk’s robust API can be used to tune Snyk to integrate into solutions designed to help engineering teams understand and improve their service-oriented architecture.

As supply chain attacks continue to dominate headlines, software development teams are beginning to realize that package management can’t be taken lightly — the threats hidden under the hood are real. In this installment of The Source, we want to talk about the practices and tools that developers need to adopt in order to protect against supply chain attacks.

President Biden’s cybersecurity executive order from last month should cause little surprise for anyone following news headlines over the past year. The order is the U.S. Federal Government’s important response to a long list of incidents, starting with the SolarWinds attack and ending with a recent ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline —- the largest known attack against a US energy firm.

Today, if you’re running Kubernetes, you know that security is not “built-in.” To secure your clusters, you have to configure, add or build in additional controls. Some are part of Kubernetes, like role-based access control (RBAC), but other best practices include specifying trusted repositories for known-good containers and then layering in runtime scanning tools as well.

We’re pleased to announce our new extension for Visual Studio, making it easier for developers to stay both secure and compliant as they code within their favorite IDE. The extension supports Visual Studio 2015, 2017, and 2019. Snyk’s new free extension for Visual Studio enables developers to easily find and fix both known vulnerabilities and license issues in their open source dependencies, helping them address security early on and ship secure code faster.

DockerCon 2021 brought containerization experts together to discuss all things Docker, from building containerized applications and running container images to improving container security. In this post, we’ll recap a live panel discussing how container security fits into the new cloud native era, how Red Ventures scaled container security scanning with Snyk, and ways to make vulnerability remediation easier.