High-risk open source vulnerabilities on the rise, Synopsys reports

White House urges developers to dump C and C++

US President Joe Biden’s administration wants software developers to use memory-safe programming languages and ditch vulnerable ones like C and C++.The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD), in a report released Monday, called on developers to...
High-risk open source vulnerabilities on the rise, Synopsys reports

Martin Hellman: We’re playing Russian roulette

Martin Hellman achieved legendary status as co-inventor of the Diffie-Hellman public key exchange algorithm, a breakthrough in software and computer cryptography. That invention and his ongoing work in cryptography and digital signatures earned him a Turing award in...
High-risk open source vulnerabilities on the rise, Synopsys reports

Protecting against software supply chain attacks

Last year’s MOVEit and 3CX vulnerabilities offered a stark reminder of the risk software supply chain attacks pose today.Threat actors exploit vulnerabilities to infiltrate a software provider’s network and modify the software’s original functionality with malicious...