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.

Confluent Cloud is a Kafka–as-a-service solution that simplifies the deployment, scaling, and operation of Kafka clusters. A popular feature is its Apache Kafka connectors, which make it easy to connect your Kafka clusters to any of 120+ third-party streaming data sources and destinations.

We are beyond excited to share some fantastic news with our community: Jazzer is now fully open source again under the Apache 2.0 license!

Once upon a time, workers sat in offices, only used corporate desktops and crossed a single authentication checkpoint to access company resources kept snugly behind a protective barrier. The world has changed dramatically since then. Cloud and hybrid environments are vast and complex. Work happens anywhere and everywhere. Company employees, contractors, partners and other users interact daily with multiple endpoints—personal and company-owned—alongside SaaS applications and sensitive data.

How to make your Celery tasks more resilient with best practices to prevent workflow interruptions and handle various failure scenarios.

What if there were a way to negate the effectiveness of multi-factor authentication (or even bypass secure login protocols) without ever cracking a password? Session hijacking offers attackers a tempting shortcut to user accounts, bypassing the usual security barriers. In 2022 alone, researchers scouring the shadier corners of the internet (like the dark web) found 22 billion device and session cookie records – each of which could help to enable session hijacking.