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Google
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 …

globe
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
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 …

architecture
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. …

AWS
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 …

Python
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 …

open source
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 …

OpenSSH
OpenSSH adds protection against Spectre, Meltdown, RAMBleed

OpenSSH, a widely used suite of programs for secure (SSH protocol-based) remote login, has been equipped with protection against side-channel attacks that could allow …

Kali Linux
Offensive Security unveils Kali Linux roadmap

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
GitHub introduces Dependabot-powered automated security fixes

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. …

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