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Critical Fluent Bit flaw affects major cloud platforms, tech companies’ offerings (CVE-2024-4323)

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Critical Fluent Bit flaw affects major cloud platforms, tech companies’ offerings (CVE-2024-4323) 2024-05-21 at 14:31 By Zeljka Zorz Tenable researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-4323) in Fluent Bit, a logging utility used by major cloud providers and tech companies, which may be leveraged for denial of service, information disclosure, or remote code execution. About […]

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Grafana: Open-source data visualization platform

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Grafana: Open-source data visualization platform 2024-05-20 at 07:31 By Mirko Zorz Grafana is an open-source solution for querying, visualizing, alerting, and exploring metrics, logs, and traces regardless of where they are stored. Grafana provides tools to transform your time-series database (TSDB) data into meaningful graphs and visualizations. Additionally, its plugin framework lets you integrate various

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Critical Git vulnerability allows RCE when cloning repositories with submodules (CVE-2024-32002)

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Critical Git vulnerability allows RCE when cloning repositories with submodules (CVE-2024-32002) 2024-05-16 at 14:16 By Zeljka Zorz New versions of Git are out, with fixes for five vulnerabilities, the most critical (CVE-2024-32002) of which can be used by attackers to remotely execute code during a “clone” operation. About Git Git is a widely-popular distributed version

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Is an open-source AI vulnerability next?

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Is an open-source AI vulnerability next? 2024-05-16 at 08:31 By Help Net Security AI has captured widespread interest and offers numerous benefits. However, its rapid advancement and widespread adoption raise concerns, especially for those of us in cybersecurity. With so much interest, there are lots of insecure applications finding their way onto our devices and

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OWASP dep-scan: Open-source security and risk audit tool

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OWASP dep-scan: Open-source security and risk audit tool 2024-05-16 at 08:01 By Mirko Zorz OWASP dep-scan is an open-source security and risk assessment tool that leverages information on vulnerabilities, advisories, and licensing restrictions for project dependencies. It supports local repositories and container images as input sources, making it suitable for integration with ASPM/VM platforms and

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BLint: Open-source tool to check the security properties of your executables

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BLint: Open-source tool to check the security properties of your executables 2024-05-14 at 07:31 By Mirko Zorz BLint is a Binary Linter designed to evaluate your executables’ security properties and capabilities, utilizing LIEF for its operations. From version 2, BLint can also produce Software Bill-of-Materials (SBOM) for compatible binaries. BLint features “Several source code analysis

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Establishing a security baseline for open source projects

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Establishing a security baseline for open source projects 2024-05-13 at 08:01 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Dana Wang, Chief Architect at OpenSSF, discusses the most significant barriers to improving open-source software security (OSS security) and opportunities for overcoming these challenges. The OpenSSF community has developed open-source security tools and projects, aiming

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How AI affects vulnerability management in open-source software

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How AI affects vulnerability management in open-source software 2024-05-13 at 07:01 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Itamar Sher, CEO of Seal Security, discusses how AI affects the risk and operational aspects of managing vulnerabilities in open-source software. One of the core issues around open-source vulnerability patch management has been the

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Nmap 7.95 released: New OS and service detection signatures

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Nmap 7.95 released: New OS and service detection signatures 2024-05-10 at 07:31 By Help Net Security Nmap is a free, open-source tool for network discovery and security auditing. It’s valued by systems and network administrators for network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap identifies available hosts on a network,

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Regulators are coming for IoT device security

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Regulators are coming for IoT device security 2024-05-09 at 08:01 By Help Net Security Cybersecurity is a relatively new challenge for many IoT device makers who have traditionally produced non-connected devices. These devices were less vulnerable to exploitation and, as a result, manufacturers often lack the expertise and experience needed to effectively secure their connected

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Pktstat: Open-source ethernet interface traffic monitor

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Pktstat: Open-source ethernet interface traffic monitor 2024-05-08 at 07:01 By Mirko Zorz Pktstat is an open-source tool that is a straightforward alternative to ncurses-based Pktstat. On Linux, it utilizes AF_PACKET, while on other platforms, it employs generic PCAP live wire capture. Pktstat is a versatile tool that doesn’t rely on advanced or recent Linux kernel

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reNgine: Open-source automated reconnaissance framework for web applications

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reNgine: Open-source automated reconnaissance framework for web applications 2024-05-02 at 07:31 By Mirko Zorz reNgine is an open-source automated reconnaissance framework for web applications that focuses on a highly configurable and streamlined recon process. Developing reNgine reNgine was developed to overcome the constraints of conventional reconnaissance tools. It is a good choice for bug bounty

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Tracecat: Open-source SOAR

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Tracecat: Open-source SOAR 2024-04-30 at 07:31 By Mirko Zorz Tracecat is an open-source automation platform for security teams. The developers believe security automation should be accessible to everyone, especially understaffed small- to mid-sized teams. Core features, user interfaces, and day-to-day workflows are based on existing best practices from best-in-class security teams. Use specialized AI models

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Prompt Fuzzer: Open-source tool for strengthening GenAI apps

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Prompt Fuzzer: Open-source tool for strengthening GenAI apps 2024-04-29 at 08:01 By Mirko Zorz Prompt Fuzzer is an open-source tool that evaluates the security of your GenAI application’s system prompt against dynamic LLM-based threats. Prompt Fuzzer features Simulation of over a dozen types of GenAI attacks The tool contextualizes itself automatically based on the system

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LSA Whisperer: Open-source tools for interacting with authentication packages

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LSA Whisperer: Open-source tools for interacting with authentication packages 2024-04-26 at 07:32 By Mirko Zorz LSA Whisperer consists of open-source tools designed to interact with authentication packages through their unique messaging protocols. Support is currently provided for the cloudap, kerberos, msv1_0, negotiate, pku2u, schannel packages and cloudap’s AzureAD plugin. Partial or unstable support is provided

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Why financial infrastructure needs to be open-source — Hyperledger

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Why financial infrastructure needs to be open-source — Hyperledger 2024-04-19 at 13:02 By Cointelegraph by Gareth Jenkinson Governments and major financial institutions are actively building open-source blockchain solutions on the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger tools. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

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Protobom: Open-source software supply chain tool

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Protobom: Open-source software supply chain tool 2024-04-19 at 07:31 By Mirko Zorz Protobom is an open-source software supply chain tool that enables all organizations, including system administrators and software development communities, to read and generate Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs), file data, and translate this data across standard industry SBOM formats. “he Protobom project was

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Damn Vulnerable RESTaurant: Open-source API service designed for learning

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Damn Vulnerable RESTaurant: Open-source API service designed for learning 2024-04-17 at 07:01 By Mirko Zorz Damn Vulnerable RESTaurant is an open-source project that allows developers to learn to identify and fix security vulnerabilities in their code through an interactive game. “I wanted to create a generic playground for ethical hackers, developers, and security engineers where

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New open-source project takeover attacks spotted, stymied

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New open-source project takeover attacks spotted, stymied 2024-04-16 at 16:16 By Zeljka Zorz The OpenJS Foundation has headed off a “credible takeover attempt” similar to the one that resulted in a backdoor getting included in the open-source XZ Utils package by someone who called themselves “Jia Tan”. This malicious maintainer achieved that coveted position after

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Zarf: Open-source continuous software delivery on disconnected networks

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Zarf: Open-source continuous software delivery on disconnected networks 2024-04-15 at 06:32 By Help Net Security Zarf is a free, open-source tool that enables continuous software delivery on disconnected networks. It currently offers fully automated support for K3s, K3d, and Kind and is also compatible with EKS, AKS, GKE, RKE2, and many other distro services. The

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