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6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week
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6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week

These six free settings will not make your project unhackable. Nothing will. What they will do is close the easy doors. Turn these on, and your project will be meaningfully harder to attack than it was before. The post 6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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How to use the AWS Workload Credentials Provider for cross-account secret retrieval and prefetching secrets
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How to use the AWS Workload Credentials Provider for cross-account secret retrieval and prefetching secrets

If you manage secrets across multiple AWS accounts or need faster secret access for latency-sensitive applications, this post shows you how to meet those requirements using two new features of the AWS Workload Credentials Provider (provider). You will learn how to configure role chaining for cross-account secret retrieval and prefetching of secrets to reduce cold-start

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Vulnerability Prioritization Is Missing the AI-Era Point
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Vulnerability Prioritization Is Missing the AI-Era Point

Modern software development relies heavily on third-party open source components, which are now being utilized at a staggering scale. This scale has led to real innovation around the world as development teams are able to focus on shipping, deploying and delivering value by standing on the shoulders of the open source contributors. With this benefit, comes the cost of risk and pressure on Application Security teams who face a constant flood of threats that even the most experienced organizations struggle to manage effectively. When faced with an ever growing task list and backlog of work, effective teams take to the time-tested method of prioritize the effort so the most important work is done first.

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Where Severity Scores Go Wrong: “Just Add Prototype Pollution”
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Where Severity Scores Go Wrong: “Just Add Prototype Pollution”

At JFrog, our Security Research team continuously monitors and analyzes newly disclosed CVEs across the open-source ecosystem. Throughout our research, we have repeatedly observed cases where the assigned severity score does not accurately reflect a vulnerability’s real-world impact or exploitability. In fact, during 2025, JFrog researchers reassessed NVD critical-severity vulnerabilities and concluded that 96% warranted

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22nd June – Threat Intelligence Report
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22nd June – Threat Intelligence Report

For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 22nd June, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has been affected by a third-party data breach involving its license system vendor. The incident exposed driver’s license information, passport numbers, emails, phone numbers, and residential addresses for […] The post 22nd June – Threat Intelligence Report appeared first on Check Point Research.

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Browser-Only Ransomware: From LLM Hallucinations to a Practical Attack Technique
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Browser-Only Ransomware: From LLM Hallucinations to a Practical Attack Technique

Research by: Alexey Bukhteyev Key Takeaways Introduction Over the past several years, large language models have reshaped software development, and malware development has followed the same path. Check Point Research has documented this trend from early experiments showing that AI systems could generate offensive components, to cases of cybercriminals using ChatGPT to create malicious tools, and […] The post Browser-Only Ransomware: From LLM Hallucinations to a Practical Attack Technique appeared first on Check Point Research.

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