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Homebrew tightens tap security, begins work on its interface

Homebrew tightens tap security, begins work on its interface 2026-06-18 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Anyone who installs software through a third-party Homebrew tap runs Ruby code written by people outside the project, and that code runs without a sandbox. That risk sits at the center of Homebrew 6.0.0. Tap trust Homebrew now requires a […]

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Everybody Is Vibe Coding But Nobody Told the Security Team

Everybody Is Vibe Coding But Nobody Told the Security Team 2026-06-08 at 19:16 By Danelle Au AI-driven development is not something organizations can or should block. But it must be governed. The post Everybody Is Vibe Coding But Nobody Told the Security Team appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View […]

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DockSec: Open-source AI-powered Docker security scanner

DockSec: Open-source AI-powered Docker security scanner 2026-06-08 at 13:09 By Mirko Zorz DockSec is an OWASP Incubator Project that combines three container security scanners with a language-model layer for explanation and remediation. Created by Advait Patel, the Python tool runs Trivy, Hadolint, and Docker Scout against a developer’s Dockerfile and image, correlates the findings, returns […]

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GitHub Copilot app launches as desktop home for AI coding agents

GitHub Copilot app launches as desktop home for AI coding agents 2026-06-08 at 07:15 By Sinisa Markovic GitHub introduced the Copilot app, a desktop application built for working with AI coding agents, at Microsoft Build 2026. The release expands GitHub’s Copilot product line beyond editor integrations and command-line tools into a dedicated workspace for directing […]

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AgentGG: Open-source agentic SAST scanner

AgentGG: Open-source agentic SAST scanner 2026-06-05 at 09:24 By Mirko Zorz Static analysis tools have spent years matching source code against known-bad patterns and handing engineers long lists of candidate issues to triage by hand. AgentGG approaches the same job with AI agents that read the code, follow imports, walk the call graph, and confirm […]

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Product showcase: Trend Micro Mobile Security detects scams in messages, QR codes, and websites

Product showcase: Trend Micro Mobile Security detects scams in messages, QR codes, and websites 2026-06-04 at 09:26 By Anamarija Pogorelec Trend Micro Mobile Security for iOS protects devices from potentially harmful websites while browsing, blocks ads and personal information trackers, helps users avoid unsafe Wi-Fi networks, and monitors data usage. The app is available for […]

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OWASP Agent Memory Guard: Stop AI agents from being weaponized through their own memory

OWASP Agent Memory Guard: Stop AI agents from being weaponized through their own memory 2026-06-01 at 08:19 By Mirko Zorz AI agents keep memory across sessions. Conversation history, vector stores, scratchpads, and RAG indexes persist between runs, and anything written into that store becomes a privileged input the agent reads back later. An attacker who […]

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Vigolium: Open-source vulnerability scanner

Vigolium: Open-source vulnerability scanner 2026-05-27 at 09:24 By Anamarija Pogorelec Vigolium, an open-source vulnerability scanner that combines deterministic scanning with AI-driven auditing, launched its initial open-source release this month. The project ships 235+ scanner modules and an in-process agent runtime called olium that handles autonomous endpoint discovery, attack planning, and finding triage. The tool exposes […]

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CVE Lite CLI: Open-source dependency vulnerability scanner

CVE Lite CLI: Open-source dependency vulnerability scanner 2026-05-20 at 09:34 By Mirko Zorz Dependency vulnerability scanning in JavaScript and TypeScript projects has long sat at the end of the development pipeline. Pull requests get opened, continuous integration runs, and a security scanner returns a list of CVE identifiers that developers then have to triage hours […]

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Lyrie: Open-source autonomous pentesting agent

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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