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Black Duck Software

Application security vendor offering static/dynamic analysis and software composition analysis to find code and open-source vulnerabilities.

Known aliases

  • Black Duck
  • Black Duck Software Inc.

Current stories

securityOne report1 publisher

Claude Opus 4.6 cost 40 times as much as Gemini 3 Flash per run for 11 more points of pen-test coverage

Ridge Security's 96-test pen-test benchmark had Claude Opus 4.6 reach 63% coverage at $217 a run, against 52% for Gemini 3 Flash at about $5.42. Ridge argues tooling matters more than the model, yet its published runs held the tooling fixed and varied the model.

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+40
Incentives70
Confidence40
securityOne report1 publisher

Black Duck's Boris Cipot names Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Cloudflare as Rust adopters in production

A year on from the CISA and NSA memory-safety report, the adoption evidence is still provider roadmaps and practitioner judgement about C and C++ code that nobody proposes to rewrite wholesale.

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption35
Hype gap+20
Incentives70
Confidence50
productOne report1 publisher

Minimus's wind-down makes the hardened base image a continuity line item

Echo picked up the assets after Minimus decided to close, so this time the customers have somewhere to land. Anyone pinning a base image to one publisher is buying that publisher's rebuild queue too.

Publishers:siliconangle.com

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+32
Incentives78
Confidence42
productOne report1 publisher

Nvidia's agent sandbox holds; the model server underneath it answers to any browser tab

Oasis Security says CVE-2026-65105 lets one malicious page reach the Ollama instance behind a NemoClaw agent and rewrite the template every prompt passes through.

Publishers:siliconangle.com

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+18
Incentives72
Confidence48
securityOne report1 publisher

The AsyncAPI backdoor shipped with valid provenance, because the official pipeline built it

Attackers moved upstream into the project's own repositories and release workflows, so the attestations checked out. Publisher reputation no longer tells you a build is clean.

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption28
Hype gap+22
Incentives82
Confidence40