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Open source skills continue to be in high demand

80% of organizations increased their use of open source software over the last 12 months, according to Perforce Software and the Open Source Initiative. Four out of five …

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How businesses can bolster their cybersecurity defenses with open source

Open-source software enables better security for both large and small organizations. It is the foundation of today’s society and is found throughout a modern application …

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Critical RCE vulnerabilities found in git (CVE-2022-41903, CVE-2022-23251)

A source code audit has revealed two critical vulnerabilities affecting git, the popular distributed version control system for collaborative software development. The latest …

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Vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries found through modern fuzzing

Recently patched vulnerabilities in MatrixSSL and wolfSSL, two open-source TLS/SSL implementations / libraries for embedded environments, have emphasized the great potential …

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70% of apps contain at least one security flaw after 5 years in production

Veracode revealed data that could save organizations time and money by helping developers minimize the introduction and accumulation of security flaws in their software. Their …

Jim O'Gorman
Kali Linux: What’s next for the popular pentesting distro?

If you’re interested in penetration testing and digital forensics, you know that Kali Linux is worth a try. And if you’re already doing it, chances are good you …

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Open source vulnerabilities add to security debt

The number of open source vulnerabilities that Mend identified and added to its vulnerability database in the first nine months of 2022 was 33 percent greater than the first …

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OSV-Scanner: A free vulnerability scanner for open-source software

After releasing the Open Source Vulnerabilities database (OSV.dev) in February, Google has launched the OSV-Scanner, a free command line vulnerability scanner that open source …

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Nosey Parker: Find sensitive information in textual data and Git history

Praetorian has open-sourced the regular expression-based (RegEx) scanning capabilities of its Nosey Parker secret scanning tool. Scanning filesystem content for secrets …

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Research reveals where 95% of open source vulnerabilities lie

New research from Endor Labs offers a view into the rampant but often unmonitored use of existing open-source software in application development and the dangers arising from …

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Open-source tool for security engineers helps automate access reviews

ConductorOne open-sourced their identity connectors in a project called Baton, available on GitHub. Each connector gives developers the ability to extract, normalize, and …

Kali Linux
Kali Linux 2022.4 released: Kali NetHunter Pro, desktop updates and new tools

Offensive Security has released Kali Linux 2022.4, the latest version of its popular penetration testing and digital forensics platform. New tools in Kali Linux 2022.4 Aside …

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