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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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Open source algorithm helps spot social media shams

Network World

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University say they have developed an open source algorithm that can help spot social media frauds trying to sway valuable community influence.

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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.

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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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Open-source Twitter algorithm: What could go wrong?

Dataconomy

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ambitions toward making it open-source. Social media platforms are being heavily criticized for their content ranking algorithms. There’s a controversy going on all over the internet regarding the Twitter algorithm. We discussed.

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Google is releasing an open source harassment filter for journalists

The Verge

Google’s Jigsaw unit is releasing the code for an open source anti-harassment tool called Harassment Manager. The tool, intended for journalists and other public figures, employs Jigsaw’s Perspective API to let users sort through potentially abusive comments on social media platforms starting with Twitter.