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Lynis: Open-source security auditing tool
Lynis is a comprehensive open-source security auditing tool for UNIX-based systems, including Linux, macOS, and BSD. Hardening with Lynis Lynis conducts a thorough security …
Quicmap: Fast, open-source QUIC protocol scanner
Quicmap is a fast, open-source QUIC service scanner that streamlines the process by eliminating multiple tool requirements. It effectively identifies QUIC services, the …
RiskInDroid: Open-source risk analysis of Android apps
RiskInDroid (Risk Index for Android) is an open-source tool for quantitative risk analysis of Android applications based on machine learning techniques. How RiskInDroid works …
TruffleHog: Open-source solution for scanning secrets
TruffleHog is an open-source scanner that identifies and addresses exposed secrets throughout your entire technology stack. “TruffleHog was originally a research tool I …
Custom rules in security tools can be a game changer for vulnerability detection
In this Help Net interview, Isaac Evans, CEO at Semgrep, discusses the balance between speed and thoroughness in CI/CD pipeline security scanning. Stressing the need to avoid …
Nemesis: Open-source offensive data enrichment and analytic pipeline
Nemesis is a centralized data processing platform that ingests, enriches, and performs analytics on offensive security assessment data (i.e., data collected during penetration …
Kubescape open-source project adds Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX) support
With its innovative feature for generating reliable Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX) documents, Kubescape became the first open-source project to provide this …
Vigil: Open-source LLM security scanner
Vigil is an open-source security scanner that detects prompt injections, jailbreaks, and other potential threats to Large Language Models (LLMs). Prompt injection arises when …
Aqua Trivy open-source security scanner now finds Kubernetes security risks
The Aqua Trivy open-source scanner now supports vulnerability scanning for Kubernetes components and Kubernetes Bill of Materials (KBOM) generation. Now, companies can better …
Raven: Open-source CI/CD pipeline security scanner
Raven (Risk Analysis and Vulnerability Enumeration for CI/CD) is an open-source CI/CD pipeline security scanner that makes hidden risks visible by connecting the dots across …
Google Play Protect takes on malicious apps with code-level scanning
Google is enhancing Google Play Protect’s real-time scanning to include code-level scanning, to keep Android devices safe from malicious and unwanted apps, especially …
5 free vulnerability scanners you should check out
Vulnerability scanners delve into systems to uncover security gaps. The primary mission? To fortify organizations against breaches and shield sensitive data from exposure. …