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Offensive Security unveiled much of the 2019-2020 roadmap for the open source Kali Linux project, the most popular operating system used by penetration testers and ethical …

GitHub, the largest code-hosting site in the world, has announced many new features and changes at the 2019 GitHub Satellite conference that took place last week in Berlin. …

Many of the trends in open source use that have presented risk management challenges to organizations in previous years persist today. However, new data also suggest that an …

The increase in the demand for innovative software has effectively reshaped the software development industry itself. Today, speed and agility are paramount and development …

Organizations running Apache web servers are urged to implement the latest security update to fix a serious privilege escalation flaw (CVE-2019-0211) that can be triggered via …

The past two years have seen an explosion in the number of software vulnerabilities being published, jumping from 6,447 in 2016 to 14,714 in 2017. Seeing as 2018 beat out the …

The National Security Agency (NSA) has released Ghidra, a free and cross-platform software reverse engineering tool suite used internally by the intelligence agency. They are …

Researchers from the Georgia Tech and Peking University are working on OSSPatcher, a system for automatic patching of vulnerable open source libraries included in mobile …

Companies like Airbnb, Uber and DoorDash, which have a cloud-based software infrastructure as one of their main enablers, are disrupting the hospitality, transportation and …

Achieving remote code execution on systems running LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice might be as easy as tricking users into opening a malicious ODT (OpenDocument) file and …

New O’Reilly research found that 58 percent of today’s companies are either building or evaluating data science platforms – which are essential for companies that are …

After setting up a bug bounty program for VLC Media Player in late 2017, the European Commission (EC) has announced the launch of 14 new ones that will cover other free and …