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Protecting America's software supply chain
Founder & CEO @SocketSecurity (socket.dev)
Created @WebTorrentApp and @StandardJS
Taught Web Sec @Stanford
Stanford, CA feross.org Joined August 2008
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Socket now protects five of the Magnificent Seven.

The newest bought Socket for our patented precomputed reachability. We analyze every open source package as it's published, so reachability works from an SBOM alone. In the POC it cut their CVEs needing triage in half.
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We shipped a free Certified Patch for the 9.8 Rails Active Storage flaw. It closes the hole without a Rails upgrade. Free for anyone, @SocketSecurity customer or not.

socket patch add GHSA-f3w6-w445-fwh9

Patch today. Then plan the upgrade.

socket.dev/blog/rails-act…
socket.dev Free Certified Patch for Critical Rails Active Storage Vulnerability Socket has released a free Certified Patch for a critical Rails Active Storage vulnerability, giving developers time to upgrade to a secure Rails version.
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Feross Verified account @feross
Also, Replit’s sandboxes run @SocketSecurity on every package install. It blocks ~8,000 malicious packages a day.

replit.com/blog/package-f…
replit.com Package Firewall: Blocking 8,000+ malicious | Replit Replit already scans your projects for vulnerable dependencies, and audits your dependencies before you publish. But risk shows up earlier than that, while you are developing, the moment a malicious...
Amjad Masad Verified account @amasad 3d
There are so many Linux zero-day vulnerabilities these days, but on Replit we’re able to avoid 96% of them with our custom Kernel build.

Read about our new sandbox design.
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