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Background. The Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is a machine-readable list of all the software dependencies included in a software. SBOM emerged as way to assist securing the software supply chain. However, despite mandates from…

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Code obfuscation is widely adopted in modern software development to protect intellectual property and hinder reverse engineering, but it also provides attackers with a powerful means to conceal malicious logic inside otherwise legitimate…

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The Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is a critical tool for securing the software supply chain (SSC), but its practical utility is undermined by inaccuracies in both its generation and its application in vulnerability scanning. This paper…

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Software Bills of Material (SBOMs) are becoming a consolidated, often enforced by governmental regulations, way to describe software composition. However, based on recent studies, SBOMs suffer from limited support for their consumption and…

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Software supply chain attacks have increased exponentially since 2020. The primary attack vectors for supply chain attacks are through: (1) software components; (2) the build infrastructure; and (3) humans (a.k.a software practitioners).…

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A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is a key component for the transparency of software supply chain; it is a structured inventory of the components, dependencies, and associated metadata of a software artifact. However, an SBOM often…

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Adequate consideration is crucial to ensure that services in a distributed application context are running satisfactorily with the resources available. Due to the asynchronous nature of tasks and the need to work with multiple layers that…

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In the last years Node.js has emerged as a framework particularly suitable for implementing lightweight IoT applications, thanks to its underlying asynchronous event-driven, non blocking I/O model. However, verifying the correctness of…

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Background: The Node Package Manager (npm) ecosystem plays a vital role in modern software development by providing a vast repository of packages and tools that developers can use to implement their software systems. However, recent…

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A Software Bill of Materials (SBoM) is a detailed inventory of all components, libraries, and modules in a software artifact, providing traceability throughout the software supply chain. With the increasing popularity of JavaScript in…

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Recent years have shown increased cyber attacks targeting less secure elements in the software supply chain and causing fatal damage to businesses and organizations. Past well-known examples of software supply chain attacks are the…

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A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is a machine-readable artifact that systematically organizes software information, enhancing supply chain transparency and security. To facilitate the exchange and utilization of SBOMs, organizations such…

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Software Bills of Material (SBOMs) have emerged as an important technology for vulnerability management amid rising supply-chain attacks. They represent component relationships within a software product and support software composition…

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Modern networked systems rely on complex software stacks, which often conceal vulnerabilities arising from intricate interdependencies. A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is effective for identifying dependencies and mitigating security…

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