Recently, an Apache Tomcat web server vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-50378, has been published, exposing the platform to remote code execution through a race condition failure.

Launched as an internal project by Spotify in 2016, Backstage was released under the Apache 2.0 open source license in 2020 to help other growing engineering teams deal with similar challenges. Backstage aims to provide a consistent developer experience and centralize tools, documentation, and services within a single platform.

On December 2, 2024, the Solana community faced a significant security incident involving the @solana/web3.js npm package, a critical library for developers building on the Solana blockchain with over 450K weekly downloads. This blog post aims to break down the attack flow, explore how it happened, and discuss the importance of supply chain security.

As Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs), become increasingly necessary and in some cases, required by private companies and governments globally, they are meant to provide transparency and help organizations understand what is in their software. But if SBOMs are so helpful, how come nobody knows what to do with them?

It should be no surprise that the world runs on open source software. According to the latest Forrester Wave Software Composition Analysis Q4 2024 report an “astonishing 77% of codebases are comprised of open-source software.” Since a “considerable amount of an application’s risk is due to third-party sources,” software composition analysis (SCA) tools remain the lifeblood for securing modern applications and bringing greater transparency to the software supply chain.