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The Linux Foundation analyzed the work done by over 13,500 developers over more than a decade, to provide insight into the Linux kernel development trends and methodologies …

Earlier this month, the DARPA-backed Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC) has shown that a future in which computer systems will (wholly or partially) replace bug hunters and patchers …

Verifying a file’s cryptographic signature can help the user deduce its trustability. If you’re using OS X, there is no simple way to view a file’s signature from …

Sn1per is an automated scanner that can be used during a penetration test to enumerate and scan for vulnerabilities. “I originally created Sn1per because I didn’t want …

myLG (my Looking Glass) is an open source utility that combines the functions of different network probes into one network diagnostic tool. It comes as a single binary with no …

The problem of planted malicious USB devices is compounded by the fact that, no matter what, users will rarely stop to think and ultimately choose not to insert them because …

The vast majority of companies are now realizing the value of open sourcing their software and almost all have done so for at least certain projects. These days Google, …

As good as the idea behind Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Secure Messaging Scorecard is, its initial version left much to be desired. The idea was to provide a …

The more serious you are about information security, the more you realize it’s difficult to be sure a system isn’t compromised. While malware authors don’t target the Mac …

Black Hat USA 2016 is underway at Las Vegas, and here are a few photos from the Arsenal, where the open source community demonstrates tools they develop and use in their daily …

Palo Alto Networks has made publicly available MineMeld, an open source, community supported framework that can simply your consumption and sharing of threat intelligence. …

Android Tamer is a free and open source Swiss army knife type of tool for Android security. The recently released version 4 moves towards Debian package compatibility. Users …