Security News

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

Google this week announced OpenTitan, an open source silicon root of trust (RoT) project that can help ensure that both hardware infrastructure and the software running on it remain in a...

The network configuration management utility has two unpatched critical remote code execution vulnerabilities.