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CVE Lite CLI
CVE Lite CLI: Open-source dependency vulnerability scanner

Dependency vulnerability scanning in JavaScript and TypeScript projects has long sat at the end of the development pipeline. Pull requests get opened, continuous integration …

code
AI is drowning software maintainers in junk security reports

AI-assisted vulnerability research has exploded, unleashing a firehose of low-quality reports on overworked software maintainers who are wasting hours sifting through noise …

Grafana
Attackers accessed, downloaded code from Grafana Labs’ GitHub

A threat actor has managed to access Grafana Labs’ GitHub environment and download the company’s codebase, the open-source observability and data visualization …

Lyrie
Lyrie: Open-source autonomous pentesting agent

Penetration testing has usually required weeks of manual work, specialized tooling, and teams with narrow skill sets. Lyrie, an open-source autonomous security agent built by …

KiCad
CERN’s open source KiCad library gives the world 17,000 circuit board components

CERN has released its complete KiCad component library under an open source license, making it available to hardware designers anywhere in the world. The library, maintained …

KDE
KDE gets over €1 million investment to strengthen security and core infrastructure

European governments and public institutions have been shifting away from proprietary software for years, and the financial infrastructure supporting open-source alternatives …

Sandyaa
Sandyaa: Open-source autonomous security bug hunter

Source code auditing has traditionally relied on static analyzers that flag long lists of potential issues, leaving engineers to sort bugs from noise. A new open-source …

Fedora Hummingbird
Fedora Hummingbird brings the container security model to a Linux host OS

Container image security pipelines have spent the past several years pushing toward minimal footprints, hermetic builds, and continuous CVE remediation. The Fedora Project is …

dnsmasq
Six new dnsmasq vulnerabilities open the door to DNS cache poisoning, local root

Recent disclosures have revealed that open-source networking tool dnsmasq is grappling with a serious set of vulnerabilities. The problems span memory safety and input …

Rustinel
Rustinel: Open-source endpoint detection for Windows and Linux

Open-source endpoint detection has long been split between Windows-focused tools built around Sysmon and Linux tools built around eBPF or auditd. Defenders running mixed …

NetGuard
Product showcase: NetGuard open-source firewall for Android

NetGuard is a free, open-source firewall for Android phones and tablets that provides users with a simple way to block internet access. Android does not allow VPN services to …

AIMap
AIMap: Open-source tool finds and tests exposed AI endpoints

Public-facing Ollama servers, MCP endpoints, and inference proxies have multiplied across the internet over the past year, often deployed without authentication or rate …

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