Security News

Flaws in Open Source Components Pose Increasing Risk to Apps: Study
2018-05-15 15:29

Open source components have been increasingly used by developers, but failure to patch vulnerabilities in this type of software can pose serious risks. read more

Asylo Open-Source Framework Tackles TEEs for Cloud
2018-05-07 17:14

The idea is to use trusted execution environments to build trust across various cloud-related use cases, including 5G, virtual network functions (VNFs), blockchain and more.

Microsoft Patches Critical Flaw in Open Source Container Library
2018-05-03 05:04

Microsoft informed users on Wednesday that an update for the Windows Host Compute Service Shim library patches a critical remote code execution vulnerability. read more

Slack Releases Open Source Secure Development Lifecycle Tool
2018-05-01 05:01

Team collaboration solutions provider Slack last week announced that one of the secure development lifecycle (SDL) tools used internally by the company has been released as open source. read more

Open-source library for improving security of AI systems
2018-04-18 19:50

IBM researchers have created the Adversarial Robustness Toolbox, an open-source library to help researchers improve the defenses of real-world AI systems. Attacks against neural networks have...

IBM open sources 'Adversarial AI toolbox' to keep your AI from getting infiltrated
2018-04-18 16:09

As artificial intelligence algorithms become mission critical for more functions in society and business, we need tools to protect AI from tampering.

IBM Releases Open Source AI Security Tool
2018-04-17 11:12

IBM today announced the release of an open source software library designed to help developers and researchers protect artificial intelligence (AI) systems against adversarial attacks. read more

Back to the future! 1990s Windows File Manager! NOW OPEN SOURCE!
2018-04-11 11:11

You can now build the 1990s Microsoft Windows "File Manager" app for Windows 10. But why? BECAUSE YOU CAN!

Mitigating Risks From Open Source and Third-Party Code
2018-04-06 21:43

CA Veracode's Chris Eng on New Strategies to Bolster Application SecurityOrganizations are developing new apps at the speed of business. But through the use of vulnerable code, they also are...

They forked this one up: Microsoft modifies open-source code, blows hole in Windows Defender
2018-04-01 00:00

Rar! That's a scary bug A remote-code execution vulnerability in Windows Defender – a flaw that can be exploited by malicious .rar files to run malware on PCs – has been traced back to an...