Proprietary Software Links
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We sign code now
Sigstore announced the general availability of its free and ecosystem-agnostic software signing service two weeks ago, giving developers a way to sign, verify and protect their software projects and the dependencies they rely on. Trail of Bits is absolutely thrilled to be a part of the project, and we spoke about our work at the inaugural SigstoreCon.
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Medibank: Data stolen from Australia health insurance available online [iophk: Windows TCO]
Some health claims data - including medical procedure history - was released, along with names, addresses, birthdates and government ID numbers.
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Australian health insurer’s customer data published online after Medibank refused to pay ransom [iophk: Windows TCO]
The release of information on the dark web appeared to be a sample of the data that Medibank had previously determined had been stolen last month, a company said. Medibank expected the thief would continue releasing data.
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Australia's top health insurer reels after data breach [iophk: Windows TCO]
Medibank Private Ltd (MPL.AX), Australia's biggest health insurer, reported a massive data breach in October that compromised personal and medical information of its current and former customers, and slashed its stock value by almost a fifth.
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Patch Tuesday, November 2022 Election Edition - Krebs on Security
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Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks
On November 4, just hours after Elon Musk fired half of the 7,500 employees previously working at Twitter, some people began to see small signs that something was wrong with everyone’s favorite hellsite. And they saw it through retweets.
Twitter introduced retweets in 2009, turning an organic thing people were already doing — pasting someone else’s username and tweet preceded by the letters RT — into a software function. In the years since, the retweet and its distant cousin, the quote tweet (which launched in April 2015) have become two of the most common mechanics on Twitter.
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A New SBOM Tool, OpenSSL Fixes, GitHub Flaw, Software Supply Chain Help
Troubles with software supply chain safety have recently grabbed a chunk of negative headline space. That might well set the stage for what to expect in an upcoming State of Open Source Report.