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In 5-7 years, quantum computers will likely crack RSA and other currently used encryption methods. That’s not fear-mongering. That’s math. Your enterprise code signing certificates? The ones protecting your software distributions right now? They’re sitting ducks. Every single RSA-2048 and ECDSA certificate you own will be worthless the moment a sufficiently powerful quantum computer comes online. Most enterprises have zero post-quantum cryptography strategy.

An important supply chain incident has rocked the security industry by showing us that some of the biggest security enterprises are also threatened by the risk of third-party SaaS product integrations. The incident, involving Salesloft Drift, a marketing automation solution integrated with Salesforce, resulted in the threat actor getting OAuth tokens. These tokens allowed them to exfiltrate massive volumes of sensitive data about customers, including account records, case information, and contact data.

Microsoft has also been enhancing cloud security by ensuring that multi-factor authentication (MFA) is enabled for all of its Azure and Microsoft 365 administrative accounts. The rollout will begin with Azure portals in October 2025 and progressively to command-line tools, APIs, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) environments in October of that year. For organizations, it means adapting their authentication workflows to align with Microsoft’s phased enforcement plan or risk disruption.

In 2021, a critical vulnerability in a popular Node.js library allowed hackers to carry out code injection and silently compromise thousands of applications, with disastrous effects. It wasn’t a brute-force attack. It wasn’t ransomware. It was some wittily constructed pieces of malevolent code that got through defences and provided attackers with complete carte blanche. Code injection attacks are no longer rare. They’re alarmingly common.

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.