Today, Belfast-based technology start-up Cloudsmith was announced as the Platinum sponsor for one of Europe's most vibrant, independent tech conferences, ShipItCon.
Each year, ShipItCon brings together software engineers and technologists from across Ireland and Europe to engage with a single, weighty topic. Previous topics have included "The Unknown" and "Failure". The theme for 2024 is TBC.
Cloudsmith CEO, Glenn Weinstein, confirmed the sponsorship announcement today, saying "We couldn't be more excited about sponsoring ShipItCon. It's a conference we attend and value a great deal. The quality of the content is always exceptional, and the enthusiasm of the ShipItCon community is unmatched. Playing a role in the ongoing success of ShipItCon is important to us".
Now in its fifth year, ShipItCon will take place on August 30th 2024 at the Round Room, Mansion House, Dublin.
Dozens of cryptographically verified open source packages from Microsoft were compromised late last week to add advanced credential-stealing code that was triggered when developers opened them in AI coding agents.
Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates how hackers apparently breached the projects and injected password-stealing malware into the code. According to security firm Cloudsmith and community-driven malware analysis site OpenSourceMalware, which were some of the first to flag the hack, the malware allowed the hackers to steal the users’ passwords and other sensitive credentials when they opened the compromised tools in their AI coding apps.
Cloudsmith appointed Mark O'Connor as Chief Financial Officer and Dan Lascell as General Counsel, strengthening its executive leadership team as the company scales to meet the demands of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers. The hires follow Cloudsmith's $72M Series C and position the company to meet IPO-scale financial, legal, and governance standards.