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open-source security tools
25 open-source cybersecurity tools that don’t care about your budget

Regardless of the operating system you use, managing secrets, apps, cloud, compliance, and security operations can be overwhelming. The free, open-source tools presented in …

Help Net Security
GitLab 18.11 brings agentic AI to security fixes, CI pipelines, and delivery analytics

GitLab has released GitLab 18.11, expanding agentic AI across the entire software lifecycle with security remediation, pipeline configuration, and delivery analytics. …

Legitify
Legitify: Open-source scanner for security misconfigurations on GitHub and GitLab

Misconfigured source code management platforms remain a common entry point in software supply chain attacks, and organizations often lack visibility into which settings put …

Plumber
Plumber: Open-source scanner of GitLab CI/CD pipelines for compliance gaps

GitLab CI/CD pipelines often accumulate configuration decisions that drift from security baselines over time. Container images get pinned to mutable tags, branches lose …

Rust crates.io
Rust package registry adds security tools and metrics to crates.io

The Rust project updated crates.io to include a Security tab on individual crate pages. The tab shows security advisories drawn from the RustSec database and lists which …

Help Net Security
GitLab Duo Agent Platform solves the AI paradox in software delivery

GitLab announced the GitLab Duo Agent Platform, delivering agentic AI that enables teams to orchestrate agents across the entire software lifecycle. AI tools have been …

Red Hat
Hackers claim to have plundered Red Hat’s GitLab repos

The Crimson Collective, an emerging extortion / hacker group, has made a bombshell claim on their Telegram channel: they have gained access to Red Hat’s GitLab and have …

development vs. security
Development vs. security: The friction threatening your code

Developers are driven to deliver new features quickly, while security teams prioritize risk mitigation, which often puts the two at odds. 61% of developers said that it’s …

Help Net Security
GitLab 18 increases developer productivity by integrating AI throughout the platform

GitLab launched GitLab 18, including AI capabilities natively integrated into the platform and major new innovations across core DevOps, and security and compliance workflows …

Josh Lemos
GitLab CISO on proactive monitoring and metrics for DevSecOps success

In this Help Net Security interview, Josh Lemos, CISO at GitLab, talks about the shift from DevOps to DevSecOps, focusing on the complexity of building systems and integrating …

GitLab
Exploit code for critical GitLab auth bypass flaw released (CVE-2024-45409)

If you run a self-managed GitLab installation with configured SAML-based authentication and you haven’t upgraded it since mid-September, do it now, because security …

DevOps
Number of incidents affecting GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, and Jira continues to rise

Outages, human errors, cyberattacks, data breaches, ransomware, security vulnerabilities, and, as a result, data loss are the reality that DevSecOps teams have to face every …

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