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Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: March 2026
Presented here is a curated selection of noteworthy open-source cybersecurity solutions that have drawn recognition for their ability to enhance security postures across …
SystemRescue 13 updates its kernel to Linux 6.18 LTS, adds new recovery tools
Bootable Linux recovery environments occupy a specific niche in the systems administration and incident response toolkit. SystemRescue, an Arch-based live distribution built …
ShipSec Studio brings open-source workflow orchestration to security operations
Security teams have long relied on a mix of shell scripts, cron jobs, and loosely connected tools to chain reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning work together. ShipSec …
Tails 7.6 ships automatic Tor bridge retrieval and a new password manager
Tails 7.6 is out, and for users operating on networks that block Tor, the most consequential addition is built-in bridge retrieval. The Tor Connection assistant can now detect …
Plumber: Open-source scanner of GitLab CI/CD pipelines for compliance gaps
GitLab CI/CD pipelines often accumulate configuration decisions that drift from security baselines over time. Container images get pinned to mutable tags, branches lose …
Samba 4.24.0 ships Kerberos hardening and a CVE fix for domain encryption defaults
Samba 4.24.0 arrived carrying a set of Kerberos security changes aimed at Active Directory deployments. The release fixes a vulnerability, extends audit coverage for sensitive …
Betterleaks: Open-source secrets scanner
Secrets scanning has become standard practice across engineering organizations, and Gitleaks has been one of the most widely used tools in that space. The author of that …
VulHunt: Open-source vulnerability detection framework
Binarly has published VulHunt Community Edition, making the core scanning engine from Binarly’s commercial Transparency Platform available to independent researchers and …
Cloud-audit: Fast, open-source AWS security scanner
Running AWS security audits without a dedicated security team typically means choosing between enterprise platforms with per-check billing and generic open-source scanners …
OpenWrt 25.12.0 ships with new package manager, built-in upgrade tool, support for 2200+ devices
OpenWrt 25.12.0 is now available for download. The release incorporates over 4,700 commits since branching from OpenWrt 24.10. Package manager changes One of the most …
Open-source tool Sage puts a security layer between AI agents and the OS
Autonomous AI agents running on developer workstations execute shell commands, fetch URLs, and write files with little or no inspection of what they are doing. Open-source …
mquire: Open-source Linux memory forensics tool
Linux memory forensics has long depended on debug symbols tied to specific kernel versions. These symbols are not installed on production systems by default, and sourcing them …
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