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CISA
CISA lays out new guidance for using open-source software

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the Open Source Software: Security Principles and Practices guide, which provides federal agencies …

TeamCity JetBrains
JetBrains fixes critical unauthenticated RCE in TeamCity On-Premises (CVE-2026-63077)

JetBrains has fixed a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-63077) affecting TeamCity On-Premises and is urging admins to upgrade self-hosted servers as soon as possible. …

Ladder
AI took more than junior developer jobs and the bill comes later

A ticket comes in for a small bug fix. Hand it to the junior on your team and you wait a day, review something that half works, and sit down to explain what went wrong. …

GitHub
GitHub revamps bug bounty program with new VIP tier, payout changes

GitHub is changing its bug bounty program to reward higher-quality vulnerability reports and reduce low-effort submissions, including AI-generated reports. The changes will …

person
Small teams are the heaviest users of AI coding agents

The pull request arrives with the tests already run and the description already written, the work of an agent that handled the whole thing on its own. Somebody still has to …

AI
Nearly half of open-source AI projects never reach production

Open models are moving into production across more organizations, and the work of securing those deployments increasingly extends beyond the model weights. Mozilla’s The State …

GitHub
GitHub’s new tool helps prevent costly open-source license violations

GitHub’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO) uses the new GitHub License Compliance feature, now in public preview, to manage thousands of open-source dependencies and …

AI
Mozilla warns of indirect prompt injection risk in AI coding agents

A malicious GitHub repository can silently compromise a developer’s machine without containing a single line of malicious code, security researchers at Mozilla’s …

open source
Critical open-source projects get a new security framework

Open source software projects are getting a new framework for handling security vulnerabilities as AI shortens the time between flaw discovery and exploitation. The Linux …

malware
Mystery hackers use novel SharkLoader dropper against governments, software devs

Kaspersky researchers have uncovered a previously unknown cyberattack campaign that has compromised government organizations and software development companies in multiple …

OpenAI
OpenAI wants AI to fix vulnerabilities, not just find them

OpenAI expanded Daybreak, its cybersecurity initiative that combines AI models, Codex Security, security researchers, maintainers, industry partners, and access controls to …

AI
Hundreds of AI-powered iOS apps found exposing credentials

Mobile app developers are packing AI features into everything from writing assistants to productivity tools and lifestyle apps. New research shows that securing access to …

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