Source: devops.com
WhiteSource Acquires Diffend to Secure Open Source Supply ChainsCategory: Software, Security
Home » Blogs » WhiteSource Acquires Diffend to Secure Open Source Supply Chains
WhiteSource this week announced it has acquired Diffend as part of an expended effort to discover malware that has been deliberately injected into open source software by a contributor acting in bad faith. Company CEO Rami Sass said cybercriminals are increasingly trying to compromise software supply chains that today depend heavily on open source projects.
As cybercriminals begin to target software supply chains, many of them are taking aim at open source software that is likely to be adopted by a broad spectrum of organizations, noted Sass.
The Diffend platform, for example, aided in the detecting of 60 suspicious packages found in Rubygems, an open source platform that makes it easier to package software built using Ruby programming tools.
WhiteSource this week announced it has acquired Diffend as part of an expended effort to discover malware that has been deliberately injected into open source software by a contributor acting in bad faith. Company CEO Rami Sass said cybercriminals are increasingly trying to compromise software supply chains that today depend heavily on open source projects.
As cybercriminals begin to target software supply chains, many of them are taking aim at open source software that is likely to be adopted by a broad spectrum of organizations, noted Sass.
The Diffend platform, for example, aided in the detecting of 60 suspicious packages found in Rubygems, an open source platform that makes it easier to package software built using Ruby programming tools.
Related Articles
Community Partners
DevOps Careers