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Kali Linux 2021.4 released: Wider Samba compatibility, The Social-Engineer Toolkit, new tools, and more!
Offensive Security released Kali Linux 2021.4, which comes with a number of improvements: wider Samba compatibility, switching package manager mirrors, enhanced Apple M1 …
XMGoat: Open-source pentesting tool for Azure
XMGoat is an open-source tool that enables penetration testers, red teamers, security consultants, and cloud experts to learn how to abuse different misconfigurations within …
Kafdrop flaw allows data from Kafka clusters to be exposed Internet-wide
Researchers at Spectral discovered a security flaw in Kafdrop, a popular open-source UI and management interface for Apache Kafka clusters that has been downloaded more than …
Acra: Open-source database protection with field-level encryption and intrusion detection
Cossack Labs updated its flagship open-source product Acra database security suite to version 0.90.0 and made many of its core security features previously available only for …
Malicious Python packages employ advanced detection evasion techniques
JFrog researchers have discovered 11 malicious Python packages on PyPI, the official third-party package repository for Python, which have been collectively downloaded over …
Dependency Combobulator: Open source toolkit to combat dependency confusion attacks
Apiiro released Dependency Combobulator, a modular and extensible open source toolkit to detect and prevent dependency confusion attacks. The toolkit, available on GitHub, …
Trojan Source bugs may lead to extensive supply-chain attacks on source code
Cambridge University researchers have detailed a new way targeted vulnerabilities can be introduced into source code while making them invisible to human code reviewers, …
Regulation fatigue: A challenge to shift processes left
Recent high-profile supply chain attacks have heightened the need for increased regulation of the open-source community. In the U.S., for example, President Biden’s …
Popular npm package hijacked, modified to deliver cryptominers
Several versions of the npm package for UA-parser.js, a widely used JavaScript library, have been modified to include malicious code and have been made available for download. …
ThreatMapper: Open source platform for scanning runtime environments
Deepfence announced open source availability of ThreatMapper, a signature offering that automatically scans, maps and ranks application vulnerabilities across serverless, …
KuberLogic open-source platform turns infrastructure into a managed PaaS
CloudLinux launched a new open-core project – KuberLogic – software that allows DevOps to set up scalable, self-healing PaaS on top of your Kubernetes cluster. Available on …
Apache OpenOffice users should upgrade to newest security release!
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has released Apache OpenOffice 4.1.11, which fixes a handful of security vulnerabilities, including CVE-2021-33035, a recently revealed …