Security News
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...
Kaspersky Lab has released the source code of an internally-developed distributed YARA scanner as a way of giving back to the infosec community. Originally developed by VirusTotal software...
After going through 24 seasons of cross-country, winter track, and spring track with my boys, I fully understand that if you put your toe on the line, you had better be prepared to race, or bad...
In an effort to boost the fight against malicious software, anti-malware company Avast this week announced the release of its retargetable machine-code decompiler as open source. read more
Two newly discovered .NET-based ransomware families are using open source repositories to encrypt users’ files, Zscaler security researchers say. read more
Secureworks has released two open source tools, Flowsynth and Dalton, designed to help analysts test rules for intrusion detection systems (IDS) and intrusion prevention systems (IPS) such as...
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 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
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...
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...