In November 2021, a zero-day vulnerability in a ubiquitous piece of open-source code stunned the technology industry and set ...

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 ...

How safe is that open-source software in the Git library, the one with the questionable history? Scorecard 2.0 can quickly tell you just how secure, or not, it really is.

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.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Google LLC today introduced GUAC, an open-source cybersecurity tool that companies can use to find potential vulnerabilities in their software. Google developed GUAC in collaboration with Kusari ...

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 ...