Symbiotic Security, which is announcing a $3 million seed round today, watches over developers as they code and points out potential security issues in real time. Other companies do this, but Symbiotic also emphasizes the next step: teaching developers to avoid these bugs in the first place. Ideally, this means developers will fix security bugs … Read more
Image by 200 Degrees from Pixabay Code as a literary work Following lengthy discussion in the 1970s and 1980s, by 1991 in the EU and 1994 at the WTO level, the legal status of computer programs was a settled matter: software was to be treated under copyright as a literary work. Source code and object … Read more
Oct 25, 2024Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Artificial Intelligence Apple has publicly made available its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) Virtual Research Environment (VRE), allowing the research community to inspect and verify the privacy and security guarantees of its offering. PCC, which Apple unveiled earlier this June, has been marketed as the “most advanced security architecture ever … Read more
Starts with a T Pivotal Peptides—which is not a licensed pharmacy or dispensary—did not respond to the letter. Instead, its website was modified to indicate that it was “down for maintenance,” and the company instructed customers to email directly. About 10 days later, Pivotal Peptides’ registered agent, Elizabeth Gately, then sent an email (which Lilly … Read more
Grafana, an open-source data analytics and visualization platform, was found to have a critical vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-9264, which has a CVSS v4 score of 9.4, was introduced in Grafana version 11 released in May 2024, Grafana Labs disclosed Thursday. The vulnerability stems from an experimental … Read more
