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The Hacker News

cPGuard Update Channel Hijacked to Backdoor Linux Servers and Collect Password Hashes

An attacker broke into the update system of the cPGuard security tool on November 2 and used it to send a malicious script to customers' Linux servers. The script installed a backdoor and collected password hashes and other sensitive files from servers that ran it, cPGuard maker OPSSHIELD said in an advisory. The attacker has since taken some of that data. cPGuard 5.88.25 and later versions

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GitHub Changelog

GitHub Copilot is now available in JetBrains Air

You can now delegate coding tasks, guide execution, and review results with GitHub Copilot in JetBrains Air. The integration uses the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) and supports tasks in your… The post GitHub Copilot is now available in JetBrains Air appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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Grafana Blog

Trace linkage: connect the dots between your app traces and database queries

When an application request slows down, a trace can show a database call. Finding the database query behind it can be tedious, requiring you to switch between traces and database telemetry, as well as match timestamps or query text by hand.  In Grafana Cloud, the Database Observability app already provides a window into all of your database telemetry, including query samples, performance history, and explain plan. But what if you could jump from that database call in the trace straight to its qu

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BleepingComputer

Gartner Predicts SOCs Will Have 50% More Engineers Than Analysts by 2028

Gartner predicts that security operations centers will have 50% more engineers than analysts by 2028 as AI agents take over routine alert handling. Prophet Security examines how AI is reshaping SOC roles, from analyst responsibilities and detection engineering to threat hunting and exposure management. [...]

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DZone

Spring Security JWT Validation Best Practices

A few months into a large-scale legacy-to-cloud migration for a Fortune 50 insurance carrier, I found something that had been sitting quietly in our codebase for a while: application code that was manually re-checking JWT claims — signature, issuer, audience, expiry — that Spring Security's OAuth2 Resource Server had already validated at the framework level, before the request ever reached that code. Nobody had done this carelessly. Each addition, on its own, looked like good security hygiene. T

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GitHub Changelog

CodeQL 2.27.3 adds Python 3.15 features and JSON data extensions

CodeQL is the static analysis engine behind GitHub code scanning, which finds and remediates security issues in your code. We’ve recently released CodeQL 2.27.3. It supports new Python 3.15 language… The post CodeQL 2.27.3 adds Python 3.15 features and JSON data extensions appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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