Oracle Won’t Withdraw ‘JavaScript’ Trademark, Says Deno. Legal Skirmish Continues

“Oracle has informed us they won’t voluntarily withdraw their trademark on ‘JavaScript’.” That’s the word coming from the company behind Deno, the alternative JavaScript/TypeScript/WebAssembly runtime, which is pursuing a formal cancellation with the U… Continue reading Oracle Won’t Withdraw ‘JavaScript’ Trademark, Says Deno. Legal Skirmish Continues

WordPress Skimmers Evade Detection by Injecting Themselves into Database Tables

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a new stealthy credit card skimmer campaign that targets WordPress e-commerce checkout pages by inserting malicious JavaScript code into a database table associated with the content management system (CMS).
“Thi… Continue reading WordPress Skimmers Evade Detection by Injecting Themselves into Database Tables

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GitHub CISO on security strategy and collaborating with the open-source community

In this Help Net Security, Alexis Wales, CISO at GitHub, discusses how GitHub embeds security into every aspect of its platform to protect millions of developers and repositories, ensuring it remains a trustworthy platform for building secure software…. Continue reading GitHub CISO on security strategy and collaborating with the open-source community

Chainsaw: Open-source tool for hunting through Windows forensic artefacts

Chainsaw is an open-source first-response tool for quickly detecting threats in Windows forensic artefacts, including Event Logs and the MFT file. It enables fast keyword searches through event logs and identifies threats using built-in Sigma detection… Continue reading Chainsaw: Open-source tool for hunting through Windows forensic artefacts

Time for a change: Elevating developers’ security skills

Organizations don’t know their software engineers’ security skills because they don’t assess them in the interview process. Trying to do that in an interview is challenging, of course, given the time it takes for a proper assessment. However, given the… Continue reading Time for a change: Elevating developers’ security skills