Originally published by Dazz. Written by Tomer Schwartz, Co-founder & CTO, Dazz. In the intricate world of software supply chain, the recent near-miss incident with CVE-2024-3094–the xz/liblzma backdoor–serves as a potent reminder of our system’s fragility and the constant vigilance required to safeguard it. In short, a widely used open source package was...
NASA has created a new digital modelling tool for aeronautical engineers to innovate new aircraft designs, building on decades of experience using highly advanced computer code for aviation. Using this tool, researchers can create simulations of conceptual aircraft featuring never-flown technology and receive detailed data about how it would work. Named “Aviary” for...
Ruby Together board member Coraline Ada Ehmke has been working for almost a decade on infusing the ideas of justice and equity into the culture and practice of open source. However, like many, her journey in the open source space did not start there. “I’ve been programming computers since I was a kid,” says Ehmke. “In the early days, you know, source code was in...
The flood of security vulnerability alerts banks receive — those warnings that a website or piece of code contains a small flaw that a hacker could exploit to break into a network — may soon become a tsunami. President Biden’s cybersecurity executive order in May emphasized improving vulnerability detection on all federal government networks — which would...
Ruby Central is very excited today to announce that Samuel Giddins has joined as the organization’s first open source employee as a Security Engineer in Residence. This residency is made possible thanks to support from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Software supply chain security has become increasingly important for companies over the past few years, due to attackers of...
Companies just can’t quit mainframes. While cloud infrastructure hogs the spotlight, mainframe systems continue to dominate major segments of the economy, especially those that require high-performance and high-reliability applications, such as the processing of financial transactions. Mainframe systems handle an estimated 90% of credit card transactions, for...