Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

JFrog’s Security Research team is constantly looking for new and previously unknown security vulnerabilities in popular open-source projects to help improve their security posture. As part of this effort, we recently discovered 5 security vulnerabilities in PJSIP, a widely used open-source multimedia communication library developed by Teluu. By triggering these newly discovered vulnerabilities, an attacker can cause arbitrary code execution in the application that uses the PJSIP library.

We’ve seen a massive increase in the number of open source packages created and used in the wild during the past few years. These days every ecosystem has its package manager, and almost every package manager has its hidden gems and configurations. That said, as developers continuously install an ever-expanding number of packages, attackers gain interest in the packages’ attack surfaces. Then, the journey to craft the perfectly hidden malicious package begins.

Our diverse global Snykers are united by our core values. In addition to building a strong business, we also collectively lead with passion and empathy for each other, our customers, the communities where we live and work, and our planet as a whole. To paraphrase Dr. King, we believe that a threat to freedom or justice anywhere threatens these innate rights everywhere. Today, as the Ukrainian people are being affected directly, we are all affected indirectly.

Our previous blog post on authentication security covered six most common authentication vulnerabilities. In this post, we will discuss a few best practices that help avoid authentication vulnerabilities and defeat specific attack vectors. Below are the six best practices to secure the authentication process.

Software supply chain risks are escalating. Between 2020 and 2021, bad actors launched nearly 7,000 software supply chain attacks, representing an increase of more than 600%. Without identifying and managing security risks within the supply chain, you could be exposing your critical assets to attacks. Implementing a supply chain risk management strategy is essential to staying ahead of the potential threats and making the most of your software.

As technology folks, we are often under a lot of pressure to fix some deployed code, update an infrastructure component, or patch some code. Often it’s with little notice and needs to be done 5 minutes ago. The gamble with any “zero turnaround” is the rush to fix now vs. taking the time to test and check.

Continuing with our security-first approach to Kubernetes data protection, in addition to Kubernetes Security Posture Reviews to scan your environment for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, CloudCasa also added Cloud Security Posture Management for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Most attacks on cloud are the result of misconfigurations and mistakes, per industry analyst, Gartner. The research firm went on to forecast that through 2025, 99% of such attacks would be the customer’s fault.

In cloud native computing (Kubernetes in our case), there is a requirement to automatically scale the compute resources used for performing a task. The autoscaling cloud computer strategy allows to dynamically adjust the active number of application servers and allocated resources instead of responding manually in real-time to traffic surges that necessitate more resources and instances.

Here’s the story of how a regular project management task resulted in me opening a pull request to an open source repository on GitHub. As a new member of Snyk’s Marketing team, I was recently involved in the preparation for The Big Fix, an event that brings together developers, DevOps, and security practitioners of all skill levels to help make the internet more secure by fixing vulnerabilities while having fun and being rewarded with swag.

Snyk is proud to launch a new Global Service Provider program designed to give leading solution providers the resources they need to bring our developer-first tools and methodologies into their services and support customers on their DevSecOps journey. We designed this program to support our service delivery partners in building services around Snyk, whether for outsourced application development, helping customers achieve their DevSecOps goals, or supporting their cloud native journey.