Security News

Open source tool for deploying SSL public key pinning in iOS, OS X apps (Help Net Security)
2015-08-04 10:53

At Black Hat USA 2015, Data Theorem and Yahoo! will be unveiling TrustKi, a new, open source security toolkit that helps developers easily include complex mobile security functionality, known as SSL p...

Commercial code is more compliant to security standards than open source code (Help Net Security)
2015-07-30 08:07

A new report details the analysis of nearly 10 billion lines of source code through the Coverity Scan service and usage of the Synopsys Coverity Software Testing Platform. For the report, the compa...

Finally! A free, open source, on-premise virus scanner framework (Help Net Security)
2015-07-27 14:04

After having spoken about it for quite a while, security researcher Robert Simmons has finally begun publishing the code and documentation of his open source AV scanner framework dubbed PlagueScanner.

Census Project Identifies Open Source Tools at Risk (Threatpost)
2015-07-10 17:13

The Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative announced it was releasing to open source data from the Census Project, which uses metrics identify under-resourced open source projects at risk.

Open source security projects get $452,000 from the Linux Foundation (Help Net Security)
2015-06-22 11:03

The Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII), a project managed by The Linux Foundation that enables technology companies, industry stakeholders and esteemed developers to collaboratively identify and fun...