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Announcing SonarSweep: Improving training data quality for coding LLMs

Recent research from Anthropic has shown that even a small amount of malicious or poor quality training data can have a massively negative impact on a model’s performance, exposing users to significant security and quality issues.

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How Sonar Helps Achieve a Strong SOC 2 Type II Report

An SOC 2 Type II report is a critical attestation for service organizations, demonstrating their commitment to securely managing customer data over time. Learn how SonarQube can streamline your SOC 2 compliance journey!

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Protecting your AI code: How SonarQube defends against the "Rules File Backdoor"

This case highlights an issue where configuration files were manipulated through hidden Unicode characters, which is a vector now commonly referred to as the "Rules File Backdoor".

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Java 22: Leverage unnamed variables and patterns

Java 22 introduces several new language features but there’s one particularly important. This article shows you how to leverage the Unnamed variables and patterns with simple examples.

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How SonarQube enables DORA compliance for financial institutions

The financial services industry stands at a critical juncture. With the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) now fully in effect across the European Union, financial institutions must demonstrate robust cybersecurity and operational resilience capabilities.

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Tame technical debt with insights from The State of Code: Maintainability report

Tame technical debt with insights from The State of Code: Maintainability report

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Securing Kotlin Apps With SonarQube: Real-World Examples

Explore how real-world vulnerabilities look in the Kotlin code of Android apps and see how SonarQube helps detect them.

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The biggest security risks unveiled in The State of Code: Security report

The State of Code report analyzes 7.9B lines of code, revealing top security risks like log injection and XSS and how to fix them.

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Caught in the FortiNet: How Attackers Can Exploit FortiClient to Compromise Organizations (3/3)

In the last blog of this series, we will focus back on FortiClient and learn how the inner workings of this application work, and what crucial mistake happened that led to us uncovering a local privilege escalation vulnerability. 

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The State of Code: Introducing Sonar’s new code quality report series

Sonar's new report series analyzes 7.9B lines of code to reveal the most common issues and how to fix them.

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Day in the Life: What Being a Sonar Support Engineer Looks Like

What does a Support Engineer do and how could it ever be interesting? In our first "Day in the Life" series, Support Engineer Joe Tingsanchali shares what it's like in this role and what he's learned.

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Caught in the FortiNet: How Attackers Can Exploit FortiClient to Compromise Organizations (2/3)

We recently discovered critical vulnerabilities in Fortinet’s endpoint protection solution that enable attackers to fully compromise organizations with minimal user interaction. In this second article, we will cover how attackers can use the compromised endpoint to achieve lateral movement within an organization.

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