Alex Birsan recently published his article "Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies" [https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60fec610] in which he explains how he used language level package managers like npm (Javascript), pip (Python), and gems (Ruby) to get companies to install and| Private Packagist
With the deadline drawing near, we’d like to remind you that we are discontinuing Composer 1.x support on Packagist.org soon. We're extending our original timeline by one month to give teams additional preparation time to migrate. Composer 1.x metadata access will now shut down on September| Private Packagist
What happened? On May 1st, 2023 between 3:08pm UTC and 4:05pm UTC an attacker accessed four user accounts that had been inactive on Packagist.org for a period of time but still had access to a total of 14 packages. The attacker forked each of the packages and| Private Packagist
Did you know that October is Cyber Security Awareness month, and that this year already marks its 21st anniversary? This collaborative effort between government and industry aims to raise awareness of online risks and to share important safety tips. These campaigns focus on basic best practices, such as protecting your| Private Packagist
Composer 1.x has served the PHP community well, but with Composer 2.0 released four years ago in October 2020, it's time to move forward. As of today, more than 95% of Composer updates are using v2, benefiting from its significant improvements in performance, memory usage, and| Private Packagist
Please immediately update Composer to version 2.3.5, 2.2.12, or 1.10.26 (composer.phar self-update). The new releases include fixes for a command injection security vulnerability (CVE-2022-24828) reported by Thomas Chauchefoin from SonarSource. Fixes for Packagist.org and Private Packagist were deployed within 24 hours of| Private Packagist
As you are hopefully aware by now, Composer 2.0 [https://getcomposer.org/2] was released in late October 2020. We hinted in the release announcement that Composer 1.x was pretty much EOL and today I want to expand a bit on the timeline we have in mind for| Private Packagist