Cybersecurity researchers: Digital detectives in a connected world

Discover the exciting world of cybersecurity research: what researchers do, essential skills, and actionable steps to begin your journey toward protecting the digital world.

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Attacks on Maven proxy repositories

Learn how specially crafted artifacts can be used to attack Maven repository managers. This post describes PoC exploits that can lead to pre-auth remote code execution and poisoning of the local artifacts in Sonatype Nexus and JFrog Artifactory.

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Seven years of open source: A more secure and diverse ecosystem

Explore insights into open source community growth, innovation, and inclusivity with an updated survey dataset.

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How to secure your GitHub Actions workflows with CodeQL

In the last few months, we secured 75+ GitHub Actions workflows in open source projects, disclosing 90+ different vulnerabilities. Out of this research we produced new support for workflows in CodeQL, empowering you to secure yours.

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Announcing CodeQL Community Packs

We are excited to introduce the new CodeQL Community Packs, a comprehensive set of queries and models designed to enhance your code analysis capabilities. These packs are tailored to augment…

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Uncovering GStreamer secrets

In this post, I’ll walk you through the vulnerabilities I uncovered in the GStreamer library and how I built a custom fuzzing generator to target MP4 files.

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CodeQL zero to hero part 4: Gradio framework case study

Learn how I discovered 11 new vulnerabilities by writing CodeQL models for Gradio framework and how you can do it, too.

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New AWS Security Incident Response helps organizations respond to and recover from security events

AWS introduces a new service to streamline security event response, providing automated triage, coordinated communication, and expert guidance to recover from cybersecurity threats.

Introducing Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Security Lake integration to simplify security analytics

Analyze security logs without data duplication; Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers zero-ETL integration with Amazon Security Lake for efficient threat hunting and investigations.