Microsoft has introduced a new source code analyzer tool dubbed Microsoft Application Inspector. The tool is designed to “identify interesting features in source code” and can help enable developers understand software components your apps use.
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has released its OWASP API Security Top 10 2019. This is the first version of the API Top 10. OWASP will likely update the guidelines every three to fours years, similar to the other OWASP Top 10 series.
A popular Linux distribution, Gentoo, said its source code hosted on GitHub was compromised.
Security firm Trustlook has found at least 25,936 malicious apps using one of Facebook’s APIs, such as a login API or messaging API. Such malicious apps could then use and abuse a range of Facebook login profiles, such as name, location and email address, according to recent blog post.
GitHub ran a security scan to find old vulnerabilities in JavaScript and Ruby libraries in over a half million public repositories. The scan results turned up over four million vulnerabilities and sent alerts to developers to patch the bugs. GitHub is leading software development platform used to host, review and manage software source code, used by millions of developers.
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) released the OWASP Top 10 – 2017. The new standard includes the ten most critical web application security risks. This is the first update since the 2013 version.
A massive data breach of credit equity firm Equifax has potentially impacted 143 million customers.
