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.
A multi-year social engineering campaign planted a backdoor in XZ Utils that would have compromised SSH on most Linux distributions. Technical deep dive into what happened.
npm lifecycle scripts execute arbitrary code during package installation. This design choice creates one of the largest and least-understood attack surfaces in modern software development.
Chocolatey is the de facto package manager for Windows automation. Its trust model and security features deserve more scrutiny than most teams give them.
Software updates are a double-edged sword: they deliver patches but also provide a trusted channel attackers can exploit. Securing the update mechanism itself is essential to supply chain integrity.
Universal Linux packaging formats promise sandboxed applications. Their security models differ significantly, and neither delivers the isolation most users assume.
Mirroring npm, PyPI, or Maven Central locally reduces dependency on external infrastructure. But mirrors introduce their own security considerations that most teams overlook.
Typosquatting and domain squatting in package registries trick developers into installing malicious packages. The attack is trivially easy to execute and remarkably effective.
Code signing is a critical trust anchor in the software supply chain. This guide covers how it works, how it fails, and how to implement it correctly.
Browser extensions operate with broad permissions and auto-update silently. Here is how the extension permission model creates supply chain risks and what organizations can do about it.
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