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Woodpecker: Open-source red teaming for AI, Kubernetes, APIs

Woodpecker: Open-source red teaming for AI, Kubernetes, APIs 2025-05-28 at 08:17 By Mirko Zorz Woodpecker is an open-source tool that automates red teaming, making advanced security testing easier and more accessible. It helps teams find and fix security weaknesses in AI systems, Kubernetes environments, and APIs before attackers can exploit them. Key features of Woodpecker […]

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Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: May 2025

Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: May 2025 2025-05-28 at 07:03 By Help Net Security This month’s roundup features exceptional open-source cybersecurity tools that are gaining attention for strengthening security across various environments. Vuls: Open-source agentless vulnerability scanner Vuls is an open-source tool that helps users find and manage security vulnerabilities. It was created

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LlamaFirewall: Open-source framework to detect and mitigate AI centric security risks

LlamaFirewall: Open-source framework to detect and mitigate AI centric security risks 2025-05-26 at 08:52 By Mirko Zorz LlamaFirewall is a system-level security framework for LLM-powered applications, built with a modular design to support layered, adaptive defense. It is designed to mitigate a wide spectrum of AI agent security risks including jailbreaking and indirect prompt injection,

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AutoPatchBench: Meta’s new way to test AI bug fixing tools

AutoPatchBench: Meta’s new way to test AI bug fixing tools 2025-05-21 at 08:02 By Mirko Zorz AutoPatchBench is a new benchmark that tests how well AI tools can fix code bugs. It focuses on C and C++ vulnerabilities found through fuzzing. The benchmark includes 136 real bugs and their verified fixes, taken from the ARVO

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Hanko: Open-source authentication and user management

Hanko: Open-source authentication and user management 2025-05-19 at 07:32 By Mirko Zorz Hanko is an open-source, API-first authentication solution purpose-built for the passwordless era. “We focus on helping developers and organizations modernize their authentication flows by migrating users towards passkeys, while still supporting all common authentication methods like email/password, MFA, OAuth, as well as SAML

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Cerbos: Open-source, scalable authorization solution

Cerbos: Open-source, scalable authorization solution 2025-05-14 at 07:34 By Help Net Security Cerbos is an open-source solution designed to simplify and modernize access control for cloud-native, microservice-based applications. Instead of hardcoding authorization logic into your application, Cerbos lets you write flexible, context-aware access policies using a YAML syntax. These policies are managed separately from your

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SPIRE: Toolchain of APIs for establishing trust between software systems

SPIRE: Toolchain of APIs for establishing trust between software systems 2025-05-12 at 08:00 By Help Net Security SPIRE is a graduated project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It’s a production-ready implementation of the SPIFFE APIs that handles node and workload attestation to securely issue SVIDs to workloads and verify the SVIDs of other

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Analyze resource-based policy dependencies across your AWS Organizations accounts

Analyze resource-based policy dependencies across your AWS Organizations accounts 2025-05-09 at 08:02 By Help Net Security Managing multiple AWS accounts in an organization can get complicated, especially when trying to understand how services and permissions are connected. The Account Assessment for AWS Organizations open-source tool helps simplify this process by giving you a central place

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Autorize: Burp Suite extension for automatic authorization enforcement detection

Autorize: Burp Suite extension for automatic authorization enforcement detection 2025-05-07 at 08:02 By Help Net Security Autorize is an open-source Burp Suite extension that checks if users can access things they shouldn’t. It runs automatic tests to help security testers find authorization problems. Autorize installation To use Autorize, you’ll need Burp Suite and Jython. Here’s

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Vuls: Open-source agentless vulnerability scanner

Vuls: Open-source agentless vulnerability scanner 2025-05-05 at 07:33 By Help Net Security Vuls is an open-source tool that helps users find and manage security vulnerabilities. It was created to solve the daily problems admins face when trying to keep servers secure. Many administrators choose not to use automatic software updates because they want to avoid

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Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: April 2025

Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: April 2025 2025-05-01 at 08:36 By Help Net Security This month’s roundup features exceptional open-source cybersecurity tools that are gaining attention for strengthening security across various environments. GoSearch: Open-source OSINT tool for uncovering digital footprints GoSearch is an open-source OSINT tool built to uncover digital footprints linked to

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Villain: Open-source framework for managing and enhancing reverse shells

Villain: Open-source framework for managing and enhancing reverse shells 2025-04-30 at 08:04 By Mirko Zorz Villain is an open-source Stage 0/1 command-and-control (C2) framework designed to manage multiple reverse TCP and HoaxShell-based shells. Beyond simply handling connections, Villain enhances these shells with added functionality, offering commands and utilities, and allowing for shell sessions sharing across

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GoSearch: Open-source OSINT tool for uncovering digital footprints

GoSearch: Open-source OSINT tool for uncovering digital footprints 2025-04-28 at 08:01 By Help Net Security GoSearch is an open-source OSINT tool built to uncover digital footprints linked to specific usernames. Designed for speed and accuracy, it lets users quickly track someone’s online presence across multiple platforms. GoSearch incorporates data from Hudson Rock’s Cybercrime Database, offering

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SWE-agent: Open-source tool uses LLMs to fix issues in GitHub repositories

SWE-agent: Open-source tool uses LLMs to fix issues in GitHub repositories 2025-04-23 at 08:36 By Mirko Zorz By connecting powerful language models like GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5 to real-world tools, the open-source tool SWE-agent allows them to autonomously perform complex tasks: from fixing bugs in live GitHub repositories and solving cybersecurity challenges, to browsing

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Hawk Eye: Open-source scanner uncovers secrets and PII across platforms

Hawk Eye: Open-source scanner uncovers secrets and PII across platforms 2025-04-21 at 08:37 By Mirko Zorz Hawk Eye is an open-source tool that helps find sensitive data before it leaks. It runs from the command line and checks many types of storage for PII and secrets: passwords, API keys, and personal information. “Unlike most open-source

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Attack Flow: Learn how cyber adversaries combine and sequence offensive techniques

Attack Flow: Learn how cyber adversaries combine and sequence offensive techniques 2025-04-16 at 08:01 By Help Net Security MITRE’s Attack Flow project aims to translate complex cyber operations into a structured language. By describing how adversaries sequence and combine offensive techniques to reach their objectives, Attack Flow offers defenders, analysts, and decision-makers a tool to

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Tirreno: Open-source fraud prevention platform

Tirreno: Open-source fraud prevention platform 2025-04-14 at 08:01 By Mirko Zorz Tirreno is an open-source fraud prevention platform designed as a universal analytics tool to monitor online platforms, web applications, SaaS products, digital communities, mobile apps, intranets, and e-commerce websites. “Our aim is to liberate online fraud protection technologies, making them widely available for organizations

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OpenSSL prepares for a quantum future with 3.5.0 release

OpenSSL prepares for a quantum future with 3.5.0 release 2025-04-09 at 11:26 By Help Net Security The OpenSSL Project has released version 3.5.0 of its widely used open-source cryptographic library, introducing new features and notable changes that signal its evolution toward future-ready cryptography. This feature release includes support for post-quantum cryptography (PQC), server-side QUIC, and

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APTRS: Open-source automated penetration testing reporting system

APTRS: Open-source automated penetration testing reporting system 2025-04-09 at 07:46 By Mirko Zorz APTRS is an open-source reporting tool built with Python and Django. It’s made for penetration testers and security teams who want to save time on reports. Instead of writing reports by hand, users can create PDF and Excel files directly in the

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YES3 Scanner: Open-source S3 security scanner for public access, ransomware protection

YES3 Scanner: Open-source S3 security scanner for public access, ransomware protection 2025-04-07 at 07:35 By Mirko Zorz YES3 Scanner is an open-source tool that scans and analyzes 10+ different configuration items for your S3 buckets in AWS. This includes access such as public access via ACLs and bucket policies – including the complex combinations of

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