How we built V8 natively on ARM
Émile-Hugo
When Amazon released their custom Graviton processor, we knew that ARM needed to be on our radar. Although clearly a first generation product, the investment required to build such a…
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How I switched from Ruby to Python
Benoit
This article is a personal experience shared by Benoit, Sqreen’s first engineer who worked on the Ruby agent and on the Python backend. Ruby, a love story Back in 2008…
PyParis 2018
Janis
At Sqreen we try to attend any conference that is related to our tech stack. To learn and interact, and, sometimes, to present. This year at PyParis 2018 we did…
Giving a voice to Jira
Oscar Baracos
The problem What if you could talk to Jira to create a ticket instead of having to interrupt what you’re doing to open a new tab, and painstakingly scroll through…
Streaming data with Amazon Kinesis
Bartosz Telenczuk
Introduction At Sqreen we use Amazon Kinesis service to process data from our agents in near real-time. This kind of processing became recently popular with the appearance of general use…
Context information storage for asyncio
Vivien
At Sqreen, we are building an agent based on dynamic instrumentation. It detects security incidents from inside an application (injections, cross-site scripting etc.) and allows users to configure actions (blocking…
Poison Packages in Python
Don Goodman-Wilson
Speeling is hard, yeah? Python quiz: What’s the difference between these two packages? urllib3 urlib3 Answer: urllib3, with two l’s is the one you meant to use. urlib3 with one…
Stop using pycrypto. Use pycryptodome instead
Paul
As we are still seeing a lot of applications depending on the Python Cryptography Toolkit (aka pycrypto) to manage their cryptography, this is a quick reminder to stop using it. The vulnerability…
Interview: Claudiu Popa – Using Pylint for Python Static Analysis
We are excited to be launching a new series of interviews. The idea is to interview developers and security specialists that make the ecosystem a better place. Today, I’m sitting…
Preventing SQL injections in Python (and other vulnerabilities)
Chris Chinchilla
Python is a wonderful language, ideal for beginners, and easy to scale up from starter projects to complex applications for data processing and serving dynamic web pages. But as you…