Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Risks Faced by Cloud-Native Apps and How to Assess Them

Modern organizations are adopting a cloud-native approach to their application development. While this approach provides many benefits, it also makes organizations face several challenges, including the challenge of securing the application with a completely different approach. In this blog, we will discuss how software changes and how organizations should think about securing it.

How to Sign Kubernetes using Sigstore

In this livestream we are joined by Adolfo Veytia, Staff Software Engineer at ChainGuard and Tech Lead on the Kubernetes SIG-Release team, as we talk about they were able to tackle signing all of the Kubernetes v1.24 image artifact using Sigstore. We then demonstrate signing an image and vulnerability scan result attestations with Sigstore's cosign utility. Didn't catch the live stream? Ask all of your Snyk questions and we’ll do our very best to answer them in the comment section.

A Busy Weekend for npm Attacks, Including 'cors' Typosquatting

‘Tis the season for a busy weekend of software supply chain attacks. Over the past three days, the Mend research team identified two separate attacks that published malicious packages to npm. Mend Supply Chain Defender quickly identified the malicious code; the owners were notified, and the packages were removed. That does not fully remove the risk, however. The first package has 9.5 million downloads, while account CI keys were compromised in the second, which can cause significant damage.

Highlights from AWS re:Invent 2022

Just like shopping on Black Friday, AWS re:Invent has become a post-Thanksgiving tradition for some of us at Datadog. We were excited to join tens of thousands of fellow AWS users and partners for this annual gathering that features new product announcements, technical sessions, networking, and fun. This year, we saw three themes emerge from the conference announcements and sessions.

Defend Against Powershell Attacks

To give system managers a number of advantages over traditional interfaces for streamlining and automating administrative chores, Microsoft created PowerShell, a built-in scripting language and command-line executor. The strength of PowerShell renders it a handy instrument for attackers to conduct file-less exploits, which are challenging to block and identify. Essentially, the PowerShell script is a simple text file with an a.ps1 extension. When you execute the file on the prompt, it will begin to run.

[Webinar] Taming Secrets Sprawl with Doppler and GitGuardian

With every hardcoded secret, the software supply chain attack surface grows larger, opening more avenues for the resourceful attacker. Remember Codecov? It all started with a hardcoded secret, ultimately leading to the downstream poisoning of 20,000+ CI pipelines and the exfiltration of more secrets than attackers could ever dream of. It’s time for us, developers and security pros, to take a hard look at our hardcoded secrets – or else, we accept living with the risks and consequences of secrets sprawl.