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SystemRescue 13 updates its kernel to Linux 6.18 LTS, adds new recovery tools
Bootable Linux recovery environments occupy a specific niche in the systems administration and incident response toolkit. SystemRescue, an Arch-based live distribution built …
ShipSec Studio brings open-source workflow orchestration to security operations
Security teams have long relied on a mix of shell scripts, cron jobs, and loosely connected tools to chain reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning work together. ShipSec …
TeamPCP strikes again: Backdoored Telnyx PyPI package delivers malware
TeamPCP continues is supply chain compromise rampage, with telnyx on PyPI being the latest maliciously modified package. What happened? Telnyx is a widely used software …
Tails 7.6 ships automatic Tor bridge retrieval and a new password manager
Tails 7.6 is out, and for users operating on networks that block Tor, the most consequential addition is built-in bridge retrieval. The Tor Connection assistant can now detect …
LiteLLM PyPI packages compromised in expanding TeamPCP supply chain attacks
A slew of supply chain attacks against popular open source tools and packages appears to have been orchestrated by TeamPCP, a cybercriminal group that rose to prominence in …
Kali Linux 2026.1 ships BackTrack mode, eight new tools, and a kernel upgrade to 6.18
Penetration testers running Kali Linux have a new release to work with. Version 2026.1 delivers the annual theme refresh, a new BackTrack-inspired mode in kali-undercover, …
NVIDIA puts GPU orchestration in community hands
GPU-accelerated AI workloads now run on Kubernetes in the large majority of enterprise environments. Managing those workloads at scale has required specialized tooling that, …
GitHub just made it much harder to ship a vulnerable pull request
GitHub is expanding its application security capabilities with AI-powered security detections designed to identify risks earlier in the development process, with public …
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 …
Llamafile, Mozilla’s portable LLM runner, gets GPU support and a rebuilt core
Running a large language model on a single machine without cloud access or a container runtime remains a priority for practitioners working in air-gapped or …
Samba 4.24.0 ships Kerberos hardening and a CVE fix for domain encryption defaults
Samba 4.24.0 arrived carrying a set of Kerberos security changes aimed at Active Directory deployments. The release fixes a vulnerability, extends audit coverage for sensitive …
Betterleaks: Open-source secrets scanner
Secrets scanning has become standard practice across engineering organizations, and Gitleaks has been one of the most widely used tools in that space. The author of that …
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