Security News

FireEye releases open source managed password cracking tool
2017-10-31 20:26

FireEye has released GoCrack, an open source tool for managing password cracking tasks across multiple machines. “Simply deploy a GoCrack server along with a worker on every GPU/CPU capable...

Microsoft Open Sources Website Scanning Tool 'Sonar'
2017-10-26 15:21

Microsoft announced this week the availability of Sonar, an open source linting and website scanning tool designed to help developers identify and fix performance and security issues. read more

The pervasive risk of vulnerable open source components
2017-10-18 13:05

Veracode announced findings from the 2017 State of Software Security Report, a comprehensive review of application security testing data from scans conducted by a base of more than 1,400...

Companies turn a blind eye to open source risk
2017-10-17 14:17

Though open source software (OSS) helps software suppliers be nimble and build products faster, there are hidden software supply chain risks all software suppliers and IoT manufacturers should...

Google, Spotify Release Open Source Cloud Security Tools
2017-09-19 14:36

Google and music service Spotify announced last week the launch of Forseti Security, a community-driven collection of open source tools designed to improve security in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)...

Kaspersky Releases Open Source Digital Forensics Tool (Security Week)
2017-07-06 14:24

Kaspersky Lab researcher Vitaly Kamluk has released the source code of Bitscout, a compact and customizable tool designed for remote digital forensics operations. read more

Cisco Releases Open Source Malware Signature Generator (Security Week)
2017-06-20 14:48

Cisco’s Talos intelligence and research group announced on Monday the availability of a new open source framework designed for automatically generating antivirus signatures from malware. read more

Google’s OSS-Fuzz Finds 1,000 Open Source Bugs (Threatpost)
2017-05-09 20:41

Google said Tuesday that its OSS-Fuzz project has unearthed over 1,000 bugs, a quarter of them potential security vulnerabilities.

Google found over 1,000 bugs in 47 open source projects (Help Net Security)
2017-05-09 18:25

In the last five months, Google’s OSS-Fuzz program has unearthed over 1,000 bugs in 47 open source software projects, and it’s ready to integrate even more of them. Fuzzing open source Software...