Unless you have experience as a Kubernetes operator or administrator, admission controllers may be a new feature for you. These controllers work mostly in the background and many are available as compiled-in plugins, but they can powerfully contribute to a deployment’s security. Admission controllers intercept API requests before they pass to the API server and can prohibit or modify them.

Snyk recently open sourced our faker-security Python package to help anyone working with security data. In this blog post, we’ll briefly go over what this Python package is and how to use it. But first, we’ll get some context for how the factory_boy Python package can be used in combination with faker-security to improve your test-writing experience during development. Note: Some knowledge of Python is helpful for getting the most out of this post.

Modern software companies often provide many things at once. Their reach extends beyond a single product or service — and their security tools must match this pace. Our own Steve Kinman (Field CISO, Snyk) and Adrian Guevara (Head of Cybersecurity, Willowtree) recently held a roundtable discussion on the challenges hypergrowth organizations face with implementing code security in a rapidly moving space.

Developer-centric Laravel is often described as “the PHP framework for web artisans.” It’s one of the most used frameworks within the PHP ecosystem, with an extensive community and a wide array of sub-branches dedicated to application development of all kinds. With version 1.0 launched in 2011, Laravel currently powers the websites of global companies like 9GAG, BBC, and Pfizer.

During application development, we often need to persist complex data (like objects) for use in different runtimes. However, maintaining persistence within complex data structures and objects is far from straightforward. In Python, you can use the built-in pickle library to handle this process. Pickle can serialize a Python object into a flat byte stream (pickling) as well as transform a byte stream back into a Python object (unpickling).

Snyk Code separates itself from the majority of static code analysis tools by generating and maintaining rule sets for its users — helping them combat common and newly discovered threats. A recent Hub article described a new Javascript vulnerability called prototype pollution, which allows attackers to modify, or “pollute”, a Javascript object prototype and execute a variety of malicious actions.

As Synk announces its support of unmanaged dependencies (mostly C/C++ libraries), we thought it would be beneficial to introduce our non-C community to some common, high-risk dangers that lurk in the C world (get it?). Think of this as a “beginners guide” to C and C++ vulnerabilities, how they look, what problems they may cause, and how to fix them.