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Chromium will support third-party Rust libraries

Ryan Daws — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 13:01:04 +0000

Google has announced that it will allow third-party Rust libraries in its Chromium open-source browser project. Chrome security team member Dana Jansens published a blog post on Thursday announcing the decision. Jansens says that Google is now actively pursuing adding a production Rust toolchain to its build system. “Our goal in bringing Rust into Chromium... Read more »

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Sonatype Lift uses deep code analysis to suggest bug fixes

Ryan Daws — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 15:21:21 +0000

Sonatype has launched a new deep code analysis platform called Lift which can detect a wide range of bug types. Lift detects bugs ranging from style issues to complex coding errors commonly found in first-party source code and third-party open source libraries. Research from Veracode last year found that open-source libraries cause security flaws in... Read more »

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Veracode: Open-source libraries cause security flaws in 70% of apps

Ryan Daws — Wed, 27 May 2020 12:58:22 +0000

Research from Veracode suggests that 70 percent of apps have security flaws due to their use of open-source libraries. The application security firm set out to determine the risk one flawed library can pose to software. For its The State of Software Security (SOSS): Open Source Edition report, Veracode analysed 351,000 libraries across the Veracode... Read more »

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