Software Supply Chain Security
event-stream npm package backdoor incident
How a routine maintainer handoff let attackers slip a Bitcoin-stealing backdoor into event-stream, hitting millions of npm installs for ten weeks.
Jul 5, 20267 min read
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ua-parser-js npm hijack incident
In 2021, a hijacked npm account pushed cryptomining and password-stealing malware into ua-parser-js for 4 hours. Here's what happened and how to catch it faster.
Jul 5, 20266 min read
Buyer's Guides
Snyk Pricing: Is It Worth the Cost
Snyk's tiered, per-seat pricing looks simple until you scale. A buyer's-guide breakdown of what drives Snyk's total cost, and how Safeguard approaches supply chain security pricing differently.
Jul 5, 20267 min read
Software Supply Chain Security
colors.js and faker.js protestware sabotage
In 2022, maintainer Marak Squires turned colors.js and faker.js into protestware, breaking 19,000+ npm projects and coining a new supply chain threat term.
Jul 5, 20266 min read
Application Security
What Is Application Security (AppSec) 101
AppSec used to mean scanning code for known bugs. Here's why that's no longer enough, what CVE-matching tools like Snyk miss, and what a real supply chain security program requires.
Jul 5, 20267 min read
AI Security
The LLM Application Security Checklist (2026)
You are shipping an LLM feature. Before it goes live, walk this checklist — organized around the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications — to catch the risks that matter most in production.
Jul 4, 20265 min read
AI Security
Securing Hugging Face Models: A Practical Safety Guide
Hugging Face is the npm of machine learning, and it inherits npm's problems. Malicious weights, pickle payloads, and leaked Space secrets are all live risks — here is how to pull models safely.
Jul 4, 20265 min read
Security Guides
.NET Dependency Vulnerability Scanning: A Practical Guide
How to scan .NET dependencies for known vulnerabilities using dotnet list package, NuGet audit, and reachability-aware SCA, and how to wire it into CI so nothing ships with a known critical.
Jul 4, 20265 min read
Security Guides
Securing Express Applications: A Layered Playbook
Express gives you almost no security by default. This playbook layers the middleware, headers, rate limits, session hardening, and input validation that turn a bare Express app into a defensible one — with Express 5 in mind.
Jul 4, 20265 min read
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