Cybersecurity is an essential aspect of open-source software, as it helps to protect the software from security threats and ensure its integrity. This artcice will explore why it is important to ...

It can take an average of over four years for vulnerabilities in open source software to be spotted, an area in the security community that needs to be addressed, researchers say.

GitHub Advanced Security will help automatically spot potential security problems in the world's biggest open source platform.

With more organisations tapping open source codes in their own applications, they will need to be able to work through the complexities of such environments with automation tools so they can ...

On the other hand, Heartbleed exposed a security flaw in the widely-used, open source OpenSSL encryption tool that affected more than half a million websites. Also this spring, TrueCrypt ...

Ultimately, she maintained, “as the home for open source and 94-plus million developers, GitHub can advance the state of software security more than any other team or platform.” ...

August 2025 sees surge in open-source cybersecurity tools including CISA's Thorium forensics platform and AI-powered vulnerability scanners gaining adoption.

Still, there are four primary arguments in favor of open-source security tools: agility in the face of changing threats, control of one’s own destiny with full source code, customization to one ...

A security consultant encourages cash-strapped businesses to consider open-source security tools and utilities to help cope with the increasing spate of malicious hacker attacks.

Octarine, a startup that helps automate security of Kubernetes workloads, released an open-source scanning tool today. The tool, which is called Kube-scan, is designed to help developers ...