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Lynis is an open source security auditing tool. Commonly used by system administrators, security professionals and auditors, to evaluate the security defenses of their …

The Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII), a project managed by The Linux Foundation, is developing a new free Badge Program, seeking input from the open source community on …

IBM launched LinuxONE, a new portfolio of hardware, software and services solutions, providing two distinct Linux systems for large enterprises and mid-size businesses.The …

OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks. Additionally, it provides secure tunneling …

Kali Linux, the open source penetration testing platform, has reached version 2.0.Kali Linux 2.0 comes with a 4.0 kernel, now based on Debian Jessie. It features improved …

At Black Hat USA 2015, Data Theorem and Yahoo! will be unveiling TrustKit, a new, open source security toolkit that helps developers easily include complex mobile security …

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 …

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 …

The wait is over: the OpenSSL Project has issued security updates for the popular open-source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols, and has shared some details about …

Benjamin Caudill, founder of Rhino Security Labs, is scheduled to demonstrate at the upcoming DefCon a new device that could help users achieve and maintain their online …

A new, open source implementation of the TLS encryption protocol has been unveiled by Amazon Web Services.Dubbed s2n (shorthand for “signal to noise”), the library …

There are several reasons one might want to use web proxy services, and depending on that reason, it might not be a very good idea to choose a free one randomly.Vienna-based …