Ransomware has been around for a long time — since 1989 — but has scaled up significantly since 2016. Author’s from Accenture and Google Cloud, in addition to our very own Vandana Verma Sehgal (from the Snyk Security Relations Team), recently released a white paper, Ransomware State of Mind: How to Better Protect Your Business, which details the current state of ransomware and solutions to address this growing problem.
NPM security has been a trending topic in the media in recent years, mostly in reference to npm packages available on the ecosystem rather than the npm registry itself. The increasing security risk, that applies to developers and software we build, makes it even more important to understand how to prevent supply chain attacks and other security vulnerabilities related to software development life cycle.
One of the most challenging positions within an organization is that of a chief information security officer (CISO). A little while back, I had an opportunity to sit down with Chris Hughes, CISO and co-founder of Aquia, to discuss his experience in the role. Acquia is an open source digital experience company that empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to embrace innovation.
On November 1st 2022, the OpenSSL team released an advisory detailing two high severity vulnerabilities — CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786. This was pre-announced as a critical bug, but later downgraded to high for the actual release. This could still be problematic though, OpenSSL is one of the predominant encryption libraries and is underpinning a significant portion of the internet’s TLS protected communications.
Security policies are still awaiting digital transformation. A key phrase in today’s cloud-driven world, “digital transformation” generally refers to the ongoing work of digitizing formerly paper-based processes. “Paper,” however, is not literal — many processes don’t use paper, but still flow as if they were. Uploading a document to Google Drive, in other words, doesn’t amount to digital transformation.
Everything on the internet has a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that uniquely identifies it — allowing Internet users to gain access to files and other media. For instance, this article has a unique URL that helps search engine optimization (SEO) crawlers index it for users to find. The first definition of the URL syntax is in the 1994 Request for Comments (RFC) 1738. Since then, the structure of URLs has gone through many revisions to improve their security.
Hi there Ruby developers! If you’ve been looking for an effective way to establish a Ruby on Rails Docker setup for your local development environment, then this post is for you. It’s a continuation of our previous article on how to install Ruby in a macOS for local development. Ruby developers frequently need to account for a database when building a Ruby on Rails project, as well as other development environment prerequisites.
OpenSSL has released two high severity vulnerabilities — CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786 — related to buffer overrun. OpenSSL initially rated CVE-2022-3602 as critical, but upon further investigation, it was reduced to high severity.
The cybersecurity industry’s current struggle — to close a significant gap between the numbers of job openings and qualified candidates — began years before the coronavirus pandemic sparked the Great Resignation. Today, (ISC)² reports a global cybersecurity workforce gap of 2.7 million people. The pandemic did compel enterprises to accelerate their migration of applications to the cloud, increasing the challenge for already-overwhelmed security teams.
On Oct 25, 2022 The OpenSSL project announced a forthcoming release of OpenSSL (version 3.0.7) to address a critical security vulnerability. This release should go live on Tuesday, November 1, 2022 between 1300 and 1700 UTC. Snyk has published a placeholder advisory with the current known details, and will update the advisory when official vulnerability details are publicized. The last critical vulnerability in OpenSSL was released in 2016.
