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New Critical GitLab Vulnerability Threatens Software Development Security

A critical vulnerability in GitLab, a widely-used Git repository platform, has been discovered, threatening the integrity of software development pipelines. GitLab has urged users running vulnerable versions to patch CVE-2024-5655 immediately to prevent potential CI/CD malfeasance. GitLab's Latest Security Patch GitLab, second only to GitHub in popularity, recently released updates for its Community (open source) and Enterprise Editions.

Secrets in Plain Sight: Unveiling over 1 million secrets on public websites

Join us at CodeSecDays for an insightful session with Cybernews researcher Vincentas Baubonis, who will reveal how their team discovered 1,141,004 secrets across 58,364 websites. Learn how exposed environment (.env) files containing passwords, API keys, and email credentials can lead to data breaches and site takeovers. We’ll discuss common leaked secrets like database credentials and AWS keys, and their impact, and share research methodology, ethical considerations, and steps to prevent exposure.

CVE-2024-5655: Latest GitLab API Vulnerability Threatens Customer Data Exposure

A security flaw that impacts specific versions of GitLab's Community and Enterprise Edition products was just detected. This vulnerability can be exploited to execute pipelines under any user's credentials. GitLab is a web-based DevOps platform offering tools for software development, version control, and project management. Launched as an open-source project in 2011, it has become a powerful solution used globally by millions.

How to augment DevSecOps with AI?

Join us for a roundtable on GenAI's dual role in cybersecurity. Experts from GitGuardian, Snyk, Docker, and Protiviti, with Redmonk, discuss threat mitigation versus internal tool adoption, securing coding assistants, leveraging LLMs in supply chain security, and more. Gain valuable insights on harnessing GenAI to enhance your DevSecOps practices.

ML-powered feature FP Remover cuts 50% of False Positives

GitGuardian is pushing its secrets detection engine precision to new heights. We enhanced our detection capabilities with Machine Learning to cut the number of false positives by half. Security and engineering teams will spend significantly less time reviewing and dismissing false alerts.

Finding and fixing exposed hardcoded secrets in your GitHub project with Snyk

Snyk is an excellent tool for spotting project vulnerabilities, including hardcoded secrets. In this blog, we'll show how you can use Snyk to locate hardcoded secrets and credentials and then refactor our code to use Doppler to store those secrets instead. We'll use the open source Snyk goof project as a reference Node.js boilerplate application, so feel free to follow along with us.