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Widespread use of unpatched open source code in popular Android apps is causing significant security vulnerabilities, warns the non-profit American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research...

Google last week took the wraps off Tink, an open source, multi-language, cross-platform cryptographic library designed to help simplify common encryption operations. Under development for the...

Open source trusted execution component expected this fall At some point this fall, a team of researchers from MIT's CSAIL and UC Berkeley's EECS aim to deliver an initial version of an open...

A newly discovered Mirai variant has been created using an open-source project that makes the process of cross compilation very easy, Symantec reports. read more

Mirai-powered botnet targets the Internet of Things (IoT) via an open source project named Aboriginal Linux.

In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2018, Azi Cohen, General Manager at WhiteSource, talks about open source lifecycle management. WhiteSource manages open source license compliance and...

Cyber security and risk mitigation company NCC Group has released a new open source tool designed to make it easier for penetration testers and others to perform DNS rebinding attacks. read more

Tesla has been accused of pursuing self-interest in open sourcing its security code. That's true, but not the whole story.

WhiteSource announced the release of its Vulnerability Checker, a free tool that provides companies with immediate, real-time alerts on the 50 most critical open source vulnerabilities published...

DarkHydrus uses the open-source Phishery tool to create two of the known Word documents used in the attacks.