Deep dives, practical guides, and incident analyses from engineers who build Safeguard. No fluff, no vendor FUD — just what you need to ship secure software.
Attackers don't hack npm's servers — they phish or socially engineer maintainers. Here's how account takeover turns trusted packages into malware.
How the Shai-Hulud npm worm self-propagated across 500+ packages in 48 hours by stealing tokens and republishing itself — and how to stop the next one.
A step-by-step reconstruction of a real dependency confusion attack, from malicious package upload to remediation, and how to defend your pipeline.
Analysis of CVE data across Rust crates and std releases, measuring how memory safety affects vulnerability shape, density, and unsafe-block concentration.
AI coding assistants hallucinate package names at rates as high as 19.7% — and attackers are registering those exact names. Here's how slopsquatting works and how to stop it.
Open source runs on unpaid maintainer labor. From xz-utils to Log4Shell to colors.js, we examine why burnout became a top supply chain security risk.
The xz Utils backdoor started with a burned-out maintainer, not a zero-day. Here's why maintainer fatigue belongs in your supply chain risk model.
Corporations run on code that volunteers maintain for free. Here's a data-backed risk map—from left-pad to the xz-utils backdoor—and how to manage it.
Heartbleed, Log4Shell, and the 2024 xz backdoor all trace back to unpaid maintainers. Here's what it would actually cost companies to fund the dependencies they depend on.
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