Tech Republic Security

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

GitHub Advanced Security gains some AI features, and GitHub Copilot now includes a chatbot option. Github Copilot Enterprise is expected in February 2024.

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Open Source Security Trends Report 153

SecureWorld News

AUGUST 30, 2022

Google has announced a new bug bounty program called the Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program (OSS VRP) , which will pay security researchers for finding flaws in Google's open source projects. The OSS VRP can certainly be a huge help to open source as a whole.

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Venture Beast

APRIL 12, 2022

Results point to a clear desire for license cost savings, code portability and strong community backing offered by open source technologies. Read More.

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Open Source Report Licensing Development 89

Venture Beast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

A new report commissioned by the EC sheds light on the potential impact of open source software and hardware on Europe's economy. Read More.

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Open Source Study Hardware Software 143

Venture Beast

MARCH 2, 2021

Enterprises continued to embrace open source software through the pandemic, according to a new Red Hat report. Read More.

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Open Source Enterprise Enterprise Software 119

Venture Beast

MARCH 4, 2022

More companies will continue to bring more products to market based on open source tools because of the broad and strategic benefits. Read More.

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Open Source Tools Report Company 85

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2023

Aman Bhullar, CIO of Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, has heeded the call, having led a widespread overhaul of antiquated voting infrastructure just in time for the contentious 2020 presidential election — a transformation rich in open source software to ensure other counties can benefit from his team’s work.

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Open Source Security Cloud Government 92

The Verge

JANUARY 9, 2022

A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm — “ faker.js ” and “ colors.js ” — that thousands of users depend on, rendering any project that contains these libraries useless, as reported by Bleeping Computer. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Dataconomy

MAY 10, 2023

Open source business intelligence software is a game-changer in the world of data analysis and decision-making. With open source BI software, businesses no longer need to rely on expensive proprietary software solutions that can be inflexible and difficult to integrate with existing systems.

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Open Source Software Software Business Intelligence 71

Venture Beast

JUNE 19, 2021

91% of software developers expect open source to be a part of their organizations in years to come, accourding to a recent Aiven survey. Read More.

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Open Source Development Software Development Survey 130

SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Security researchers at Checkmarx and Illustria recently discovered a campaign in which a threat actor(s) managed to post over 144,000 phishing packages to popular open source platforms, including NPM, PyPi, and NuGet. For more information, see the full report, How 140K Nuget, NPM, and PyPi Packages Were Used to Spread Phishing Links.

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Open Source Resources Report Research 63

Venture Beast

APRIL 13, 2021

Vulnerabilities in open source codebases increased by nine percentage points in 2020, according to a new report from Synopsys and Black Duck. Read More.

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Open Source Report Enterprise Enterprise 85

Tech Republic Security

MAY 20, 2020

Problems are everywhere, but most fixes are easy to find and implement, according to a Veracode report that analyzed.

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Open Source Report Applications Security 194

SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Google recently launched the 'OSV' (Open Source Vulnerabilities) database, as a " first step towards improving vulnerability triage for developers and consumers of open source software.". This will help consumers of open source software determine if they were impacted and make the appropriate security changes.

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Open Source Google Fashion Software 71

Venture Beast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This change is likely due to the prevalence of open source components in new software and rising attacks using open projects as vectors. Read More.

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Open Source Software Software Groups 114

Tech Republic Security

MARCH 2, 2021

A new Red Hat report also finds that app development and digital transformation are important to users and that security perceptions have improved.

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Open Source Enterprise Enterprise Report 209

The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2022

The White House will meet with leaders of major tech companies including Apple, Google, Amazon, Meta, IBM, and Microsoft on Thursday to discuss the security of open-source software. GitHub and the Linux Open Source Foundation will also be represented. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Open Source Security Software Software 68

IT Toolbox

MARCH 24, 2023

A malicious, open-source ChatGPT extension for Chrome has been reported to steal key details of approximately 9,000 Facebook accounts. The post Malicious ChatGPT Extension Hijacks Facebook Accounts appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Open Source Report 254

Vox

AUGUST 2, 2023

Mark Zuckerberg justified the move in a Facebook post : “Open source drives innovation because it enables many more developers to build with new technology. It also improves safety and security because when software is open, more people can scrutinize it to identify and fix potential issues.”

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Open Source System Google Government 93

SPF13

MARCH 20, 2015

In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. Open Source Companies • Redhat $13B • Cloudera $3B • MongoDB $1.6B • Docker $.5B

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

Google’s Jigsaw unit is releasing the code for an open source anti-harassment tool called Harassment Manager. It’s debuting as source code for developers to build on, then being launched as a functional application for Thomson Reuters Foundation journalists in June. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Open Source Google Media Social 81

Tech Republic Security

APRIL 24, 2024

A new report by cyber security firm Radware identifies the four main impacts of AI on the threat landscape emerging this year.

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Report Security Open Source Artificial Intelligence 198

GeekWire

APRIL 2, 2021

Ramesh, a software engineering manager at Amazon, is founder and CEO of OpenTreatments Foundation , which this week launched an open-source platform called OpenTreatments. One day Ramesh hopes to have a small, paid core of engineers working on the site while still encouraging volunteers to contribute to the open-source effort.

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Open Source Research Pharmaceuticals Nonprofit 145

Network World

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Open source software is the norm these days rather than the exception. Discover how to secure your systems with InfoWorld's Security Report newsletter. ]. Discover how to secure your systems with InfoWorld's Security Report newsletter. ]. InfoWorld: Why is Red Hat getting on the soapbox about open source security?

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Open Source Security Applications Software 60

CTOvision

MAY 9, 2014

Now for more on their assessment: Recorded Future reported that: Since 2007, Al-Qaeda’s use of encryption technology has been based on the Mujahideen Secrets platform which has developed to include support for mobile, instant messaging, and Macs.

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Open Source Big Data CTO Research 381

CTOvision

JANUARY 25, 2016

invited to participate in its January 2016 report entitled "The Forrester Wave TM : Big Data Hadoop Distributions, Q1 2016." It was noted in the Forrester Report that, "Hortonworks doubles-down on inclusive, broad community innovation. Hortonworks is a rock when it comes to its promise to offer a 100% open source distribution.

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Big Data Open Source Report Data 150

Network World

MARCH 3, 2017

HackerOne, the company behind one of the most popular vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platforms, has decided to make its professional service available to open-source projects for free. Here at HackerOne, open source runs through our veins," the company's representatives said in a blog post.

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Open Source Software Development Resources Programming 60

Forrester IT

MAY 4, 2020

In my new report, “The State Of Application Security, 2020,” some of the trends are. Applications remain the most popular attack vector, open source continues to infect everything, and too many industries are not investing in the application security controls they need. kind of discouraging.

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Applications Security Open Source Trends 254

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 28, 2020

In recent articles, ForAllSecure has discussed how we were able to use our next-generation fuzzing solution, Mayhem, to discover previously unknown vulnerabilities in several open source projects, including Netflix DIAL reference , Das U-Boot , and more. allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted PSD file.

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Open Source Quality Assurance Analysis Tools 52

Network World

MAY 19, 2022

Nmap, short for Network Mapper, is a free and open source tool used for vulnerability checking, port scanning and, of course, network mapping. Despite being created back in 1997, Nmap remains the gold standard against which all other similar tools , either commercial or open source, are judged.

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Network Open Source Course Tools 174

Venture Beast

APRIL 26, 2022

Based on recent adoption trends, it's clear the original open sourcing of Java has set the language on a path to a more user-friendly future. Read More.

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Trends Open Source Software Software 65

Network World

AUGUST 31, 2016

The Department of Defense needs to move past open source myths that have been debunked and jump on the open source bandwagon or the DoD and U.S. military will not be able to maintain tech superiority, warns a Center for a New American Security (CNAS) report.

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Open Source Software Software Report 60

Venture Beast

APRIL 29, 2022

Log4shell, a humble piece of open-source software, quickly became the worry of IT teams as they scrambled to protect critical data. Read More.

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Open Source Report Security Cloud 83

SecureWorld News

JULY 14, 2022

The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) has released its first report , providing detailed information on the Log4j vulnerability. Organizations should continue to report (and escalate) observations of Log4j exploitation. Increase investments in open source software security.

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Report Open Source Software Development Government 69

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 28, 2020

In recent articles, ForAllSecure has discussed how we were able to use our next-generation fuzzing solution, Mayhem, to discover previously unknown vulnerabilities in several open source projects, including Netflix DIAL reference , Das U-Boot , and more. allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted PSD file.

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Open Source Quality Assurance Analysis Tools 52

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 28, 2020

In recent articles, ForAllSecure has discussed how we were able to use our next-generation fuzzing solution, Mayhem, to discover previously unknown vulnerabilities in several open source projects, including Netflix DIAL reference , Das U-Boot , and more. allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted PSD file.

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Open Source Quality Assurance Analysis Tools 52

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2024

According to a report from Indeed , a large part of this shift has come as organizations focus more on adopting AI in the workplace. Even as the IT job market experiences shifting dynamics, employment website Indeed reports a range of roles have maintained resiliency and even grown in demand.

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