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Tech Leaders, Federal Officials Seek a Way Forward for Open Source Security
White House officials and leaders from Apple, Google, GitHub, and other companies met to discuss ways to improve the security of open source projects critical to national security.
Securing the Open Source Software Supply Chain
Improving the security of the open source software supply chain will require better understanding of dependencies, and cooperation from developers and users.
Keeping Dependencies Straight in the Software Supply Chain
The nature of modern software development is that development teams have to rely on "blind trust" for some of the code components written by someone else. A new attack method showed how build systems could be tricked into pulling code from the wrong projects.
Malicious Code Found in Package Repositories
Attackers have increasingly targeted the software supply chain by populating package managers such as RubyGems and npm with malicious code.
IBM Releases Open Source Encryption Toolkit
Protecting data while in use is a challenge. IBM released an open source toolkit to help developers implement fully homomorphic encryption in their applciations.