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Empowering Women for Leadership at Mend

Mend marks Women’s Equality Day by describing how the company meets the challenge of equality with its “Ready to Grow” program, and the success it has achieved so far in promoting equality in leadership and opportunities for women and others

Attacker Floods npm With Crypto-Mining Packages that Mine Monero When Installed with Default Configuration

Monero (XMR) is an open-source, privacy-oriented cryptocurrency that was launched in 2014. It uses a public distributed ledger containing technology that obscures transaction details to ensure the anonymity of its users. Monero maintains egalitarian mining, allowing anyone to participate. As tempting as it may seem, some go a step further and use the infrastructure of...

Statement from Mend on the U.S. Supreme Court Decision

In light of the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs versus Jackson Women’s Healthcare, which nullified the federal right to an abortion, we remain committed to protecting the rights of our employees. The health and well-being of our Mend team members are paramount to all that we do, and we do not take this news lightly. ...

RSA 2022–What a Week! 

After two years of virtual events, the Mend team was beyond excited to gather in San Francisco’s Moscone Center and connect with the tech community face to face. This year’s theme was ‘transformation,’ which couldn’t be more appropriate for us as we unveiled our new company name and integrated application security platform with automated remediation...

From WhiteSource to Mend—A Rebrand Journey

When it comes to rebranding, it’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey How important is a company name, really? Turns out that it is pretty important, especially if the name you currently have does not represent what the company has become, or where it is going. Our name is what defines the vision,...

Plan and Protect: A Modern Plan for Open-Source Security

In today’s digital world, open-source software is vital to modern application development. And as we know, what’s important to the business world is important to threat actors. But how can companies successfully combat the rising tide of vulnerabilities? Join experts from WhiteSource and Microsoft as they discuss the value of blending proactive practices to code...

AWS Targeted by a Package Backfill Attack

On April 28 and April 30, respectively, Supply Chain Defender identified, blocked, and reported two packages we deemed were malicious versions of original Amazon Web Services (AWS) packages. Mend security experts have reached out to contacts at Amazon to notify them of our findings.  This discovery may point to a new takeover method that targets...

How SAST and SCA together make your security stronger?

Risks from application vulnerabilities have multiplied as more applications get developed. To address this issue, Static Application Security Testing (SAST) identifies security vulnerabilities in the custom code written by application developers. Simultaneously, Software Composition Analysis (SCA) safeguards the open-source components that comprise between 60% and 80% of the codebase in modern applications. Join Susan St.Clair,...

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