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Every now and then, Netflix open sources some of the security tools created by its coders. The latest example of this is Stethoscope, a web application that collects …

Wickr, the San Francisco-based company that’s behind the secure ephemeral messaging app of the same name, has published the core crypto protocol powering both the …

PacketTotal is a free tool for analyzing packet captures that has recently been offered to the infosec community. Available online, the tool is powered by a Python-based …

Facebook and GitHub have partnered to provide GitHub users who employ two-factor authentication an easier way to recover access to their account in case they get locked out of …

Lavabit, the secure encrypted webmail service used by Edward Snowden, is back online. Lavabit founder and operator Ladar Levison shut it down in 2013 when the US government …

The Kali Linux distribution celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The hugely popular open source project, maintained by Offensive Security, announced today that its new …

A consortium of researchers announced the development of a universal, free, and open source framework to protect wireless software updates in vehicles. The team issued a …

Google has released Key Transparency, an open source public directory meant to simplify the discovery of intended recipients’ public encryption key. The project is still …

Software is becoming increasingly important for market success, driving an ever greater need for speed in the development process. The rapid adoption of DevOps is testimony to …

If you’re using Nagios Core to monitor your systems, networks and infrastructure, and you have not updated to version 4.2.4, you better hop to it. This latest release …

VPN service Private Internet Access (PIA) has just announced that they have contracted noted and well-reputed cryptographer Dr. Matthew Green to perform a security audit of …

The ransomware attack that hit the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency last Friday is just one of many mounted by the same attacker. According to an unnamed security …