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The use of open source software in DevOps has become strategic for organizations of all sizes
A higher percentage of top performing teams in enterprise organizations are using open source software, according to a survey conducted by DevOps Research and Assessment …
Sandboxie becomes freeware, soon-to-be open source
Sophos plans to open source Sandboxie, a relatively popular Windows utility that allows users to run applications in a sandbox. Until that happens, they’ve made the …
The rise of modern applications, DevSecOps and the intelligence economy
There has been a significant year-over-year growth in enterprise usage trends around multi-cloud adoption, open source technologies such as Kubernetes, and AWS cloud-native …
Google’s differential privacy library can now be used by anyone
Google has open-sourced a differential privacy library that helps power some of its core products. What it differential privacy? Differential privacy is a method for analyzing …
New cross-industry consortium aims to accelerate confidential computing adoption
The Linux Foundation announced the intent to form the Confidential Computing Consortium, a community dedicated to defining and accelerating the adoption of confidential …
VLC users urged to implement latest security update
VLC, the popular cross-platform media player, has reached version 3.0.8, which fixes over a dozen security vulnerabilities, some of which could be exploited by attackers to …
Nmap 7.80 released: A mature Npcap Windows packet capturing driver, 11 new NSE scripts
Nmap is a free and open source utility for network discovery and security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network …
AttackSurfaceMapper automates the reconnaissance process
AttackSurfaceMapper, a new open source OSINT tool created by Andreas Georgiou and Jacob Wilkin, security consultants at Trustwave SpiderLabs, automates the process of …
100% of IT execs are modernizing architectures, but struggling with data silos and vendor lock-in
99% of IT execs report challenges with architecture modernization and 98% report challenges with their corporate data architectures (data silos), a DataStax survey reveals. …
New open source solution reduces the risks associated with cloud deployments
An open source user computer environment (UCE) for the Amazon Cloud, called Galahad, has been launched by the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). The technology will …
Malicious Python packages found on PyPI
Researchers have uncovered another batch of malicious Python libraries hosted on Python Package Index (PyPI). The malicious packages PyPI is the official third-party software …
1 in 10 open source components downloaded in 2018 had a known security vulnerability
This year’s Sonatype report reveals the best practices exhibited by exemplary open source software projects and commercial application development teams. As in years past, it …
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