✉️ OpenSSF’s October: Prague Recap, an AI Vulnerability Guide, and Security Slam
OpenSSF Newsletter - September, 2026
TL;DR:
🌐 Welcoming New Members → Four new members, a CRA Readiness guide, and 1,400 upstream fixes from Ericsson.
🤖 AI Vulnerability Guide → A free guide for finding and fixing vulnerabilities with AI.
📊New LF Research → AI cuts coding time roughly in half, but maintainers estimate 25% of incoming pull requests are “AI slop.”
🛡️ Privateer→ AI-assisted compliance evaluation joins the OpenSSF Sandbox.
📣 New Tech Talk → Learn how upstream contribution minimizes technical debt & streamlines CRA reporting
📦 GitHub Case Study → Malware advisories now cover eight ecosystems with OpenSSF data.
🎙️ Podcast: Two October Episodes → Regulatory-era risk with Vincent Danen and ten years of cloud native with Chris Aniszczyk.
🛠️ Project Releases → Updates from OpenSSF Scorecard, OpenBao, Zarf, Gemara, Darnit, OSV Schema, Sigstore, and Alpha-Omega.
📅 OpenSSF at KubeCon NA → Security Slam wraps November 6; Open Source SecurityCon and KubeCon NA start November 9.
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At Community Day Europe in Prague, OpenSSF welcomed A-Team Systems, Emphere, DACHS IT GMBH, and JetBrains. The Foundation also released a CRA Readiness practitioner’s guide, a CRA Readiness User Journey, and role-based User Journeys for developers, security engineers, OSPO leaders, and executives. 🔗 Read the announcement
Organizations cut their private forks and contributed more than 1,400 dependency updates and security fixes upstream to meet CRA obligations. Hear how from Ericsson, ActiveState, and Linux Foundation Research in our next Tech Talk on Monday, November 2 at 12:00 PM ET.
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