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Building Confidence and Trust in AI-Generated Code

To tackle the accountability and ownership challenge accompanying AI-generated code, we are introducing Sonar AI Code Assurance

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How code vulnerabilities in your web application can be the single point of failure for your IT infrastructure’s security.
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Pandora FMS 742: Critical Code Vulnerabilities Explained

How code vulnerabilities in your web application can be the single point of failure for your IT infrastructure’s security.

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When writing a rule for static analysis, it’s possible that in some cases, the rule does not give the results that were expected. Unfortunately, naming a false positive is often far easie...
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False positives are our enemies, but may still be your friends

When writing a rule for static analysis, it’s possible that in some cases, the rule does not give the results that were expected. Unfortunately, naming a false positive is often far easier than fixing it. Learn how the different types of rules give rise to different types of false positives, which ones are easier to fix than others, and how you can help.

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Codoforum 4.8.7: Critical Code Vulnerabilities Explained

We analyze the root cause of three critical security vulnerabilities that enabled a complete board take over, and how to correctly prevent these in your code.

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About the recent code leaks from SonarQube Server instances

On July 27th 2020 we learned through media coverage that Till Kottmann was able to access non open-source source code from various companies. This is our public response to the incident.

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Take Control of Code Quality with SonarQube Server Pull Request Decoration in Your Workflow

How do you write super clean code without disrupting your workflow? Join me as I show you how SonarQube Server Pull Request Decoration gets you there!

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How Google manages open source

The Google monorepo has been blogged about, talked about at conferences, and written up in Communications of the ACM.

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Package signing across package managers

Recently I looked at the state of 2FA support across package managers. 2FA adds a layer of security by requiring two sources of authentication from maintainers when publishing packages.

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Apache Kylin 3.0.1 Command Injection Vulnerability

We discovered a severe command injection vulnerability in Apache Kylin that allows malicious users to execute arbitrary OS commands.

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Teams will be joining forces in building best-in-class Static Application Security Testing (SAST) products that help development teams and organizations deliver more secure software.
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SonarSource acquires RIPS Technologies

Teams will be joining forces in building best-in-class Static Application Security Testing (SAST) products that help development teams and organizations deliver more secure software.

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Hibernate is among one of the most commonly found database libraries used in Java web applications, shipping with its own query language. This technical post will teach you how to detect ...
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Exploiting Hibernate Injections

Hibernate is among one of the most commonly found database libraries used in Java web applications, shipping with its own query language. This technical post will teach you how to detect and exploit Hibernates very own vulnerability: The HQL Injection.

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What is 'taint analysis' and why do I care?

In large systems, finding the bad actors is easier said than done. First you have to find all the places you accept data from users, and then you have to sanitize the data before you use it. The hard part is making sure you've found all the sources of user data and intervened before any kind of use. That's where taint analysis comes in.

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