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Lyrie: Open-source autonomous pentesting agent

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Lyrie: Open-source autonomous pentesting agent 2026-05-18 at 09:42 By Sinisa Markovic Penetration testing has usually required weeks of manual work, specialized tooling, and teams with narrow skill sets. Lyrie, an open-source autonomous security agent built by OTT Cybersecurity, compresses that process into a command line tool and publishes the entire codebase. The project reached version […]

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WhatsApp adds Incognito Chat for private Meta AI conversations

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WhatsApp adds Incognito Chat for private Meta AI conversations 2026-05-13 at 18:24 By Sinisa Markovic The company launched Incognito Chat with Meta AI, a feature that lets users hold AI conversations the platform itself cannot read. The rollout will reach WhatsApp and the standalone Meta AI app over the coming months. How Incognito Chat works

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Six new dnsmasq vulnerabilities open the door to DNS cache poisoning, local root

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Six new dnsmasq vulnerabilities open the door to DNS cache poisoning, local root 2026-05-12 at 14:18 By Sinisa Markovic Recent disclosures have revealed that open-source networking tool dnsmasq is grappling with a serious set of vulnerabilities. The problems span memory safety and input validation, with researchers identifying heap buffer overflows, heap corruption, and code execution

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HEIDI: Free IDE security plugin for open-source vulnerability checks

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HEIDI: Free IDE security plugin for open-source vulnerability checks 2026-05-12 at 09:28 By Mirko Zorz Open-source dependencies make up a large percentage of the code in production applications, and most vulnerability checks still run late in the pipeline, inside CI/CD systems or after a release ships. Meterian is moving those checks earlier with HEIDI, a

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Product showcase: NetGuard open-source firewall for Android

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Product showcase: NetGuard open-source firewall for Android 2026-05-08 at 08:17 By Anamarija Pogorelec NetGuard is a free, open-source firewall for Android phones and tablets that provides users with a simple way to block internet access. Android does not allow VPN services to be chained, so the app uses the Android VPN service to route all

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Your work apps are quietly handing 19 data points to someone

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Your work apps are quietly handing 19 data points to someone 2026-05-04 at 09:46 By Mirko Zorz Office work in 2026 runs through a stack of mobile apps that sit on the same phones people use for banking, messaging family, and tracking their location. Ten of the most common workplace apps in use across U.S.

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Brush shell 0.4.0 tightens script safety, widens platform support

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Brush shell 0.4.0 tightens script safety, widens platform support 2026-05-04 at 09:16 By Sinisa Markovic Rust-based alternatives to traditional Unix shells continue to attract users who want bash compatibility alongside built-in features like syntax highlighting and history-based suggestions. Brush, a bash- and POSIX-compatible shell written in Rust, sits in that group, and version 0.4.0 brings

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Open-source privacy proxy masks PII before prompts reach external AI services

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Open-source privacy proxy masks PII before prompts reach external AI services 2026-05-01 at 11:49 By Sinisa Markovic Enterprise developers routinely send prompts to external large language models that contain customer emails, support transcripts, and other identifying information, often without a sanitization layer between the application and the API. Dataiku has released Kiji Privacy Proxy, an

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Proxmox Backup Server 4.2 arrives with S3 storage support and parallel sync jobs

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Proxmox Backup Server 4.2 arrives with S3 storage support and parallel sync jobs 2026-04-30 at 15:31 By Anamarija Pogorelec Proxmox Backup Server 4.2 is a maintenance and feature update built on Debian 13.4 “Trixie” that adds S3-compatible object storage as a supported backend and introduces parallel processing for sync jobs. The server ships the new

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25 open-source cybersecurity tools that don’t care about your budget

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25 open-source cybersecurity tools that don’t care about your budget 2026-04-27 at 10:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Regardless of the operating system you use, managing secrets, apps, cloud, compliance, and security operations can be overwhelming. The free, open-source tools presented in this article can help you detect threats, increase visibility, enforce controls, and investigate and respond

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A study of 1,000 Android apps finds a privacy policy logging gap

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A study of 1,000 Android apps finds a privacy policy logging gap 2026-04-24 at 08:22 By Anamarija Pogorelec Android developers write log statements for the same reasons they always have: debugging crashes, tracing performance issues, and understanding how features behave in production. Legal and privacy teams, working from templates and regulatory checklists, draft policies describing

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IT spending to hit $6.31 trillion record, thanks to AI

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IT spending to hit $6.31 trillion record, thanks to AI 2026-04-24 at 08:22 By Anamarija Pogorelec Global spending on IT is expected to reach $6.31 trillion in 2026, according to the latest quarterly forecast from Gartner, marking a 13.5% increase from the previous year. The forecast shows that growth is spread across all major segments,

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Scenario: Open-source framework for automated AI app red-teaming

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Scenario: Open-source framework for automated AI app red-teaming 2026-04-23 at 09:47 By Mirko Zorz Enterprises running customer service bots, data analytics agents, and other AI-driven applications in production handle sensitive records and connect to core business systems every day. LangWatch has released Scenario, an open-source framework that runs automated red-team exercises against AI agents using

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PentAGI: Open-source autonomous AI penetration testing system

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PentAGI: Open-source autonomous AI penetration testing system 2026-04-22 at 10:09 By Anamarija Pogorelec Penetration testers have long relied on collections of specialized tools, manual coordination, and documented runbooks to work through a target assessment. PentAGI, an open-source project from VXControl, attempts to automate that entire workflow using a multi-agent AI system that plans, researches, and

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Thunderbird 150 arrives with encrypted message search and OpenPGP improvements

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Thunderbird 150 arrives with encrypted message search and OpenPGP improvements 2026-04-21 at 23:32 By Anamarija Pogorelec Released today, Thunderbird 150.0 brings eight new features, a round of bug fixes, and security patches that cover the web engine underlying the email client. Thunderbird 150.0 runs on Windows 10 or later, macOS 10.15 or later, and Linux

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VirtualBox 7.2.8 is out with Linux kernel 7.0 support and crash fixes

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VirtualBox 7.2.8 is out with Linux kernel 7.0 support and crash fixes 2026-04-21 at 21:54 By Anamarija Pogorelec Oracle shipped VirtualBox 7.2.8 on April 21, 2026, as a maintenance release covering crashes, networking problems, clipboard issues, and extended Linux kernel compatibility. The update touches the VMM layer, NAT networking, graphics, UEFI, and both Linux and

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SmokedMeat: Open-source tool shows what attackers do inside CI/CD pipelines

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SmokedMeat: Open-source tool shows what attackers do inside CI/CD pipelines 2026-04-20 at 09:14 By Mirko Zorz Boost Security has released SmokedMeat, an open-source framework that runs attack chains against CI/CD infrastructure so engineering and security teams can see what an attacker would do in their specific environment. What the tool does SmokedMeat takes a flagged

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Product showcase: Syncthing for secure, private file synchronization

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Product showcase: Syncthing for secure, private file synchronization 2026-04-20 at 07:52 By Anamarija Pogorelec Syncthing is a free and open-source application that synchronizes files directly between your devices. Instead of uploading data to a central server, it uses a peer-to-peer approach, transferring files whenever peers are online. This decentralized model ensures that your data remains

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Product showcase: Ente Auth encrypts, backs up, and syncs 2FA

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Product showcase: Ente Auth encrypts, backs up, and syncs 2FA 2026-04-16 at 08:11 By Anamarija Pogorelec Two-factor authentication (2FA) is an essential layer of protection for online accounts, and Ente Auth makes it easier to manage securely across devices. Ente Auth is a free, open-source authenticator app designed to generate and store one-time passcodes for

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What changed in nginx 1.30.0 and what it means for your upstream config

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What changed in nginx 1.30.0 and what it means for your upstream config 2026-04-15 at 14:29 By Anamarija Pogorelec nginx 1.30.0 brings together features accumulated across the 1.29.x mainline series. The release covers a broad range of changes, from protocol support additions to security-relevant fixes and new configuration options. Keepalive to upstreams is now on

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