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Anthropic's Claude Security, formerly Claude Code Security, is in public beta for Enterprise users; the Opus 4.7-powered tool can scan code for vulnerabilities (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)
https://www.implicator.ai/anthropic-opens-claude-s…
FBI warns against using Chinese mobile apps due to privacy risks
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-warns-against-using-chinese-mobile-apps-over-to-data-security-risks/
It's always important to have a consistent #security policy.
For example, a policy of "If somebody filed a CVE, it's an important security issue, and we will fix it as such, no matter how meaningless the fix is. If nobody did, it's just a glorified bug fix, no matter how serious the bug was."
So we've just seen a #pip security release over "installing random packages can overwrite pip's files and pip can lazy-import some of them immediately afterwards", with a fix of "pip will no longer load them until you run it again" (leaving the underlying security issue of "any #Python package can override files installed by any other Python package" as intended behavior). As Eli Schwartz beautifully put it, you are not expected to be using the virtual environment; you should create it, install packages into it (at most once!), and then frame it and put it on the wall to admire.
Now we're seeing a "bug fix" for "malicious entry point names can write outside of virtual environment". If nobody filed a CVE, it's obviously not a security issue at all. At least upstream graced us with fixing it without correcting the spec to forbid that first.
https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/14000
Grab says it commits to "Taiwan's data security and public trust", after reports of Grab's collaborations with China's Huawei and Alibaba sparked concerns (Kentaro Takeda/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn
The FBI warns of rising cyber cargo theft, where attackers hack freight brokers' accounts and dupe carriers; 2025 cargo theft losses in N. America rose 60% YoY (Pierluigi Paganini/Security Affairs)
https://securityaffairs.com/191556/cyb