Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

You’ve built an amazing app. You upload it. A user downloads it. But instead of launching, their system throws a terrifying warning. “The publisher of this app could not be verified.” Trust destroyed. Install abandoned. Reputation at risk. That’s where code signing tools come in and why you can’t afford to skip them.

In August 2025, AWS made native support available to deploy AWS Lambda functions straight from GitHub Actions. With this integration, a lot of the complexity developers have had to undergo conventionally with serverless automatic deployment is eliminated. As a valuable practical improvement, teams will now gain the ability to utilize declarative GitHub workflows with OIDC-secured authentication and auto-packaging of code for simpler CI/CD pipelines.

Most people don’t think about the software running inside their devices. But your washing machine, your car, even your electric toothbrush, they all run code. And not just any code firmware, the invisible layer that controls how hardware behaves. We live in a world where physical things are now digital. A thermostat can call home. A pacemaker can receive updates. But with that power comes a simple, unsettling question.

You and your team have spent months building a game-changing product. You’ve written thousands of lines of code, pushed feature after feature, and deployed updates like clockwork. Everything’s on track until one day, your entire codebase shows up on a public forum. Someone leaked your source code because your repository wasn’t secure. You must be aware that most breaches occur not because of a lack of tools, but due to poor practices.

Apple has now stopped signing iOS 18.5, now that it publicly released iOS 18.6 on July 29, 2025. Although this seems like a mundane decision, it holds important consequences, especially for power users, developers, and security researchers. For iOS 18.6 owners, downgrading to iOS 18.5 is no longer an option, baked into the way Apple has stopped signing iOS 18.5. Apple’s refusal to sign older versions makes any problem regarding restoring, installing, or downgrading to iOS 18.5 impossible.

You update your antivirus. You install that fancy EDR. You think you’re safe. But, surprise, Hackers are still getting in without triggering a single alarm. By hijacking trusted apps and making them load malicious code, voluntarily. This sneaky move is called DLL Sideloading, and it’s becoming the cybercriminal’s favourite backdoor. Sounds horrifying? It is. But here’s the good news for you. If you understand how DLL sideloading works, you can catch it before it wrecks your system.