PCI DSS 4.0.1 Remediation: 7 Proven Patterns Devs Can Ship Today Angle: With future-dated PCI DSS v4.0.x requirements having been mandatory since March 31, 2025, this guide turns payment-app/API gaps into backlog-ready changes. PCI PerspectivesPCI DSS 4.0.1 clarifies 4.0 without removing your obligations. If you handle cardholder data (CDE), you must demonstrate working controls—not just documents. […]
5 Blazing Steps to a SEC Item 1.05 Pipeline (Cyber 8-K) Engineering leaders are now expected to decide fast—and defend later. This guide shows how to ship a developer-friendly SEC Item 1.05 pipeline that automates cyber 8-K automation, materiality assessment, and disclosure evidence collection. You’ll get production-ready code, CI/CD examples, and a signed evidence store
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7 Powerful Steps: Add an ASVS 5.0 Gate to CI/CD Shipping features is great—shipping evidence-backed security is better. This post turns ASVS 5.0 into executable CI/CD checks using GitHub Actions, Semgrep, Bandit, and DAST in GitHub Actions via ZAP Baseline. You’ll get ready-to-paste workflows, tiny diffs for SSRF/IDOR/token handling, and a way to store “evidence
7 Proven Ways to Tame AI-Generated Code Supply-Chain Risk One-sentence angle: As developers and engineering teams increasingly lean on AI-generated code and open-source modules, the attack surface expands—this guide shows how to embed checks for AI-generated code supply chain risk and code provenance directly into modern pipelines. New guide: Turn ASVS 5.0 into CI checks
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7 Proven Defenses for the Pixnapping Android Exploit TL;DR (for dev & engineering leaders) A new GPU side-channel nicknamed the Pixnapping Android exploit can siphon sensitive on-screen pixels (think OTP/2FA digits, chat previews, balances) without classic runtime permissions. Treat it like a UI data-exfil risk, not just an overlay issue. Your playbook: Throughout this guide,
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7 Proven Steps for CVE-2025-48384 Git Mitigation TL;DR (for dev & SRE leads) CVE-2025-48384 exposes CI/CD and developer laptops to submodule-driven arbitrary file write → code execution. Treat this as a pipeline risk first, repo risk second. This battle-tested CVE-2025-48384 Git mitigation playbook gives you 7 steps you can drop into GitHub Actions, GitLab CI,
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CVE-2025-59489 Unity Mitigation: Secure Your Build Pipeline If you ship Unity-based apps or games, treat CVE-2025-59489 as a supply-chain event. Your priorities are: (1) rebuild/publish with fixed Unity Editor lines, (2) harden the CI/CD path so this class of unsafe file loading (local file inclusion) can’t reappear, and (3) prove your fleet is clean. This
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CISA Emergency Directive 25-03: DevOps Tasks for Cisco 0-Day TL;DR (for dev & SRE leads): Turn CISA Emergency Directive 25-03 into a concrete, sprint-ready checklist: discover your Cisco edge, lock management planes, patch & reimage, rotate CI tokens, restrict runner egress, enforce mTLS to artifacts, gate builds on KEV network CVEs, and verify with config/state
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npm supply chain attack 2025: ‘Shai-Hulud’ CI fixes Developers are on the front line of the npm supply chain attack 2025 (the “Shai-Hulud” worm) that targets CI secrets and account tokens. This developer-first incident-response playbook shows exactly how to contain it in hours—not weeks—by enforcing trusted publishing, granular tokens, provenance checks, and safe build defaults
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Gate CI with CISA KEV JSON: Ship Safer Builds If you’re already generating SBOMs, you’re a 10-minute script away from turning CISA KEV JSON into a hard gate in CI/CD. The latest KEV additions—like the Chrome V8 type confusion vulnerability (CVE-2025-10585)—show how fast browser/JS engines move. Your pipeline should block risky versions on sight, not