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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 …

AWS Rex
AWS open sources Trusted Remote Execution to control what AI agents touch

Production scripts that read a log file generally hold the same permissions as scripts that delete one. The execution context decides what gets touched, and that gap widens …

Brush shell
Brush shell 0.4.0 tightens script safety, widens platform support

Rust-based alternatives to traditional Unix shells continue to attract users who want bash compatibility alongside built-in features like syntax highlighting and history-based …

Pipelock
Pipelock: Open-source AI agent firewall

AI coding agents run with shell access, environment variables containing API keys, and unrestricted internet connectivity, creating a single point of failure where one …

Dataiku Kiji Privacy Proxy
Open-source privacy proxy masks PII before prompts reach external AI services

Enterprise developers routinely send prompts to external large language models that contain customer emails, support transcripts, and other identifying information, often …

verifying AI model lineage
Cisco releases open-source toolkit for verifying AI model lineage

Enterprises pulling models from Hugging Face and other open repositories rarely keep records of how those models are altered after download, leaving organizations with little …

Proxmox
Proxmox Backup Server 4.2 arrives with S3 storage support and parallel sync jobs

Proxmox Backup Server 4.2 is a maintenance and feature update built on Debian 13.4 “Trixie” that adds S3-compatible object storage as a supported backend and …

Warp
Warp open sources its AI terminal client

Warp, the AI-centric terminal used by close to a million developers, has released the source code for its client on GitHub under the AGPL license, with OpenAI signed on as the …

Fedora Linux
Fedora Linux 44 ships with GNOME 50 and KDE Plasma 6.6

The Fedora Project released Fedora Linux 44, delivering updated desktop environments, revised installer behavior, and several lower-level system changes across its editions …

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