In recent developments, a sophisticated malware stealer strain crafted in the Go programming language has been discovered by AT&T Alien Labs, posing a severe threat to both Windows and macOS operating systems. As of the time of publishing of this article, traditional antivirus solutions have low or even non-existent detection rates, making it a stealthy and formidable adversary.
Applications frequently need to provide authentication credentials to gain access to cloud services and other resources. However, these credentials present a security risk because they are notoriously difficult to keep out of code. According to a GitGuardian report, 10 million credentials were publicly committed to GitHub in 2022. Leaked credentials such as these are a major cause of data breaches and account takeovers.
We’re proud that Snyk has been honored with inclusion on the inaugural Fortune Cyber 60 list as a top growth-stage company. The full list was unveiled late last week. In 2023, our industry encountered distinctive challenges, but the entire Snyk community demonstrated resilience and a steadfast commitment to our founding mission: empowering and equipping DevSecOps teams worldwide to build securely.
IT pros need local admin rights on corporate devices to install software, modify configuration settings, perform troubleshooting and so on. But all too often, business users are also routinely granted local admin rights on their computers.
When it comes to implementing security controls throughout an organization, there are a lot of cases where the work may be doubled, tripled, quadrupled or more by having to “reinvent the wheel” multiple times. It’s a common problem, but fortunately, it also has a common solution: common controls. What does all of this mean? Let’s dig in.
By Vadim Freger, Dolev Moshe Attiya On December 7th, 2023, the Apache Struts project disclosed a critical vulnerability (CVSS score 9.8) in its Struts 2 open-source web framework. The vulnerability resides in the flawed file upload logic and allows attackers to manipulate upload parameters, resulting in arbitrary file upload and code execution under certain conditions. There is no known workaround, and the only solution is to upgrade to the latest versions, the affected versions being.
