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Installing an app from the Google Workspace Marketplace or GitHub Marketplace can grant a third party access to company email, files, calendars, code repositories, CI workflows, organization settings, and secrets. Marketplace presence gives these apps the appearance of approval. The OAuth grants behind them often reach into business systems beyond the listed function. An audi...

Every year brings its share of global events, but 2026 is proving to be a banner year for mega-scale entertainment. The year got off to a roaring start with the Winter Olympics, and now anticipation is building for the fast-approaching FIFA World Cup. But amid the buzz, have you ever paused to consider the staggering level of risk inherent to such large-scale events? Or how i...

In this interview with Help Net Security, Marc Rubbinaccio, Head of Cybersecurity and Compliance at Secureframe, explains where security teams go wrong when preparing for CMMC and FedRAMP 20x. The conversation covers how organizations check the 110 requirements but miss the 320 assessment objectives beneath them, why spotless SOC 2 evidence can hide a broken control, and how ...

A vulnerability scanner flags a critical CVSS 10 vulnerability on an industrial asset. The report lands in the boss’ inbox and now he wants to know why we’re sitting on a critical vulnerability. In a normal IT environment, you patch it then close the ticket and call it a day. If, however, you’re in OT or dealing with ICS in a live manufacturing facility, it’s rarely that simp...

In a recent GitGuardian analysis, an average of 150 secrets were found on a sample of developer endpoints. Private keys accounted for 38% of unique secrets, while cloud, identity provider, and secret management credentials (AWS IAM, Hashicorp vault) added another 22%. Those figures should not be treated as a universal prevalence estimate for every developer machine, but they ...