Security News

SEC Consult Open Sources Hardware Analysis Tool
2019-12-04 17:58

Austria-based IT security services and consulting company SEC Consult on Wednesday announced the release as open source of its SEC Xtractor assisted hardware analysis tool. read more

Dozens of Severe Flaws Found in 4 Popular Open Source VNC Software
2019-11-23 01:21

Four popular open-source VNC remote desktop applications have been found vulnerable to a total of 37 security vulnerabilities, many of which went unnoticed for the last 20 years and most severe...

Dozens of Vulnerabilities Found in Open Source VNC Systems
2019-11-22 17:57

Kaspersky researchers have identified dozens of vulnerabilities in four popular open source virtual network computing (VNC) systems, but fortunately the majority of them have been patched. read more

Cloudflare Open-Sources Network Vulnerability Scanner
2019-11-22 17:08

Security and web performance services provider Cloudflare this week announced the open source availability of Flan Scan, its lightweight network vulnerability scanner. read more

Arlo: An open source post-election auditing tool
2019-11-22 14:27

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is teaming up with election officials and their private sector partners to develop and pilot an open source post-election auditing tool...

CISA Announces Open Source Post-Election Auditing Tool
2019-11-22 13:35

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week announced the release of an open source post-election auditing tool in preparation for...

GitHub launches Security Lab to boost open source security
2019-11-18 11:24

The idea is simple – create a global platform for reporting and fixing vulnerabilities in open source projects before they do damage.

New GitHub Security Lab Aims to Secure Open Source Software
2019-11-15 17:43

GitHub this week announced GitHub Security Lab, a new initiative aimed at making open source software more secure.  read more

GitHub Security Lab aims to make open source software more secure
2019-11-15 11:38

GitHub, the world’s largest open source code repository and leading software development platform, has launched GitHub Security Lab. “Our team will lead by example, dedicating full-time resources...

Open source is a heavily interdependent community, which is good and bad for security
2019-11-11 15:49

Commentary: Open source is a tangled web of interdependencies. How can we do better to secure this web?