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Log4j, Open Source Maintenance, And Why SBOMs Are Critical Now

Forrester IT

Over the weekend, security pros took to social media to understand and dissect the Log4j vulnerability. The fact of the […].

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Open-Source Intelligence: Using Public Data to Fortify Security

SecureWorld News

In the interconnected digital landscape, vast amounts of valuable intelligence can be gleaned from publicly available open sources on the internet. Enter open-source intelligence (OSINT), the practice of legally collecting, analyzing, and making decisions based on public data.

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Los Angeles IT secures the vote with open source and the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

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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NGA Continues To Engage With Open Source Community Via GitHub

CTOvision

They are: geoevents: The GeoEvents project is a dynamic and customizable open source web presence that provides a common operational picture to consolidate activities, manage content, and provides a single point of discovery. It is also designed for social codeing, helping developers collaborate around projects. In the News.

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Pinterest open-sources big data analytics tool Querybook

Venture Beast

Pinterest recently open-sourced Querybook, a tool for performing big data analytics at enterprise scale. Read More.

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Cutting Slack: When open source and team chat tools collide

Venture Beast

VentureBeat looks at some open source Slack alternatives, including Mattermost, Rocket.Chat, Zulip, and Element/Matrix. Read More.

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Over 144,000 Phishing Packages Posted to Open-Source Repositories

SecureWorld News

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. The descriptions for these packages contained links to phishing campaigns.