open source

Identity relationship management market to exceed $50 billion by 2020

February 26, 2014

ForgeRock announced today that the identity relationship management (IRM) market, focused on managing customer interactions across any device or environment, will exceed $50 …

Check Point discovers critical vulnerability in MediaWiki

January 30, 2014

Check Point found a critical vulnerability in the MediaWiki project Web platform, a popular open source Web platform used to create and maintain ‘wiki’ Web sites. …

Trust but verify: Mozilla execs invite researchers to audit their code

January 14, 2014

The recent revelations about NSA surveillance efforts, and especially the claims that the agency has been persuading or forcing software developers to put in backdoors into …

Multi-protocol SoftEther VPN becomes open source

January 7, 2014

In March 2013, a Japanese student by the name of Daiyuu Nobori set up VPN Gate, a free VPN service that he hoped would be used by Internet users who wish to avoid their …

Open source crypto server for thwarting malicious insiders

November 26, 2013

Edward Snowden’s successful exfiltration of mountains of data from NSA systems and databases has once more put the spotlight back on the threat that insiders pose to …

NTRU public key crypto released to open source community

November 22, 2013

RSA and ECC are the two most common public-key crypto systems in use today. At the 2013 Black Hat conference, researchers declared that the math for cracking encryption …

Google encourages teens to contribute to open source projects

November 21, 2013

For the fourth year in a row, Google has organized its Code-in contest for pre-university students to contribute to open source projects. “For many students the Google …

Lavabit and Silent Circle to create email impervious to snooping

October 31, 2013

The founders of recently shut down encrypted email service Lavabit and encrypted communications firm Silent Circle have announced the creation of the Dark Mail Alliance, a …

Centralizing threat intelligence to feed network defense systems

October 29, 2013

ThreatConnect announced the launch of a prototype that connects commercial security products with advanced threat intelligence through an open source standard known as the …

Nmap cheat sheet

October 23, 2013

Network Mapper – better known by its shortened name Nmap – is one of the most long-lived security tools out there. Used for scanning computer networks for ports, …

Ubuntu 13.10 released, improves on cloud setup and management

October 18, 2013

Canonical released the next version of Ubuntu for server and cloud environments. Ubuntu 13.10 delivers the latest and best version of OpenStack, and is the fastest, most …

Google offers rewards for code improvements to open source programs

October 10, 2013

Google has announced that they plan to reward researchers who aim to “improve the security of key third-party software critical to the health of the entire …