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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
Find Deeply Hidden Security Vulnerabilities with Deeper SAST by Sonar
This post delves into an actual Jenkins vulnerability to understand the intricacies of deeper SAST for detecting deeply hidden code vulnerabilities. It illustrates how deeper SAST works and explains its impact on keeping your code clean and free of these serious issues.
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Parallel Code Security: The Challenge of Concurrency
Parallelism has been around for decades, but it is still a source of critical vulnerabilities nowadays. This blog post details a severe vulnerability in the remote desktop gateway Apache Guacamole, highlighting the security risks of parallelism.
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Code Interoperability: The Hazards of Technological Variety
The rapid development of different technologies doesn’t come without risks. This blog post details a critical vulnerability in the remote desktop gateway Apache Guacamole, which showcases the challenges of code interoperability.
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Leveraging SonarQube Server, SonarQube Cloud, and SonarQube for IDE for Effective Shift Left Practices
Speed and quality are no longer trade-offs in the modern software landscape - they're a tightly interwoven dance. That's where the "Shift Left" philosophy comes in, urging us to move critical checks and balances like code quality analysis earlier in the development lifecycle.
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Driving DevOps Transformation: Leveling Up CI/CD with Static Code Analysis
Unit and end-to-end testing are effective in ensuring features and functionality work properly, but what about code quality? How can we ensure that our code is reliable, maintainable, and secure? Enter static code analysis.
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Legacy Codebases are a DevOps Issue
Explore how DevOps principles and practices can transform the challenge of managing legacy code into an opportunity for improvement. This piece outlines actionable strategies for refactoring, the importance of automation, and adopting a 'Clean as You Code' approach to ensure sustainable code quality and efficiency.
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SonarQube Server 10.5 Release Announcement
The 10.5 release of SonarQube Server includes support for Java 21, C++23, and TypeScript 5.4. Secrets detection analysis is faster and deeper SAST coverage has increased. Project onboarding is more simplified for monorepos, Maven, and GitHub Actions. Read on to find out about these and much more.
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Dangerous Import: SourceForge Patches Critical Code Vulnerability
Our Vulnerability Research team discovered a critical code vulnerability in SourceForge, which attackers could have used to poison deployed files and spread malware to millions of users.
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AI-Generated Code Demands ‘Trust, But Verify’ Approach to Software Development
Pairing the "trust, but verify" approach with the power of Sonar’s Clean Code solutions enables organizations to be confident that their AI-generated code is high-quality, maintainable, reliable, and secure.
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C# Logging Best Practices with .NET
Are you writing logging code in your app? Logging correctly can be tricky. It is an important part of tracking the progress of your app while running and determining the origin of problems when they arise. In this blog post Denis Troller walks you through common pitfalls and logging best practices when coding in C# with .NET.
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xz utils hack: what is it?
Late last week, a developer noticed some unusual behavior on their computer, investigated it, and uncovered a hack of epic scope, in an obscure but important library called xz.
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