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Microsoft releases open-source toolkit to govern autonomous AI agents

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Microsoft releases open-source toolkit to govern autonomous AI agents 2026-04-03 at 08:39 By Anamarija Pogorelec AI agents can book travel, execute financial transactions, write and run code, and manage infrastructure without human intervention at each step. Frameworks like LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, and Azure AI Foundry Agent Service have made this kind of autonomy straightforward to […]

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OpenSSH 10.3 patches five security bugs and drops legacy rekeying support

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OpenSSH 10.3 patches five security bugs and drops legacy rekeying support 2026-04-02 at 18:58 By Anamarija Pogorelec OpenSSH 10.3 shipped carrying five security fixes alongside feature additions and a set of behavior changes that will break compatibility with older SSH implementations that do not support rekeying. Rekeying compatibility removed SSH clients and servers that lack

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Rspamd 4.0.0 ships memory savings, a new scan protocol, and a required migration step

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Rspamd 4.0.0 ships memory savings, a new scan protocol, and a required migration step 2026-03-31 at 15:43 By Sinisa Markovic The open-source spam filtering platform Rspamd released version 4.0.0, delivering infrastructure changes across its scan protocol, memory model, hash storage, and configuration system. Several of the changes are breaking, and at least one requires a

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Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: March 2026

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Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: March 2026 2026-03-31 at 07:37 By Anamarija Pogorelec Presented here is a curated selection of noteworthy open-source cybersecurity solutions that have drawn recognition for their ability to enhance security postures across diverse settings. BlacksmithAI: Open-source AI-powered penetration testing framework BlacksmithAI is an open-source penetration testing framework that uses

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SystemRescue 13 updates its kernel to Linux 6.18 LTS, adds new recovery tools

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SystemRescue 13 updates its kernel to Linux 6.18 LTS, adds new recovery tools 2026-03-30 at 10:37 By Anamarija Pogorelec Bootable Linux recovery environments occupy a specific niche in the systems administration and incident response toolkit. SystemRescue, an Arch-based live distribution built for repairing unbootable systems and recovering data from damaged drives, has shipped version 13.00

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ShipSec Studio brings open-source workflow orchestration to security operations

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ShipSec Studio brings open-source workflow orchestration to security operations 2026-03-30 at 08:04 By Anamarija Pogorelec Security teams have long relied on a mix of shell scripts, cron jobs, and loosely connected tools to chain reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning work together. ShipSec Studio, an open-source security workflow automation platform from ShipSec AI, aims to replace that

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Tails 7.6 ships automatic Tor bridge retrieval and a new password manager

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Tails 7.6 ships automatic Tor bridge retrieval and a new password manager 2026-03-27 at 01:05 By Anamarija Pogorelec Tails 7.6 is out, and for users operating on networks that block Tor, the most consequential addition is built-in bridge retrieval. The Tor Connection assistant can now detect when a direct connection to Tor is restricted and

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Plumber: Open-source scanner of GitLab CI/CD pipelines for compliance gaps

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Plumber: Open-source scanner of GitLab CI/CD pipelines for compliance gaps 2026-03-23 at 09:18 By Anamarija Pogorelec GitLab CI/CD pipelines often accumulate configuration decisions that drift from security baselines over time. Container images get pinned to mutable tags, branches lose protection settings, and required templates go missing. An open-source tool called Plumber automates the detection of

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Samba 4.24.0 ships Kerberos hardening and a CVE fix for domain encryption defaults

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Samba 4.24.0 ships Kerberos hardening and a CVE fix for domain encryption defaults 2026-03-19 at 10:35 By Sinisa Markovic Samba 4.24.0 arrived carrying a set of Kerberos security changes aimed at Active Directory deployments. The release fixes a vulnerability, extends audit coverage for sensitive AD attributes, and introduces configuration options to counter two related Kerberos

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Betterleaks: Open-source secrets scanner

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Betterleaks: Open-source secrets scanner 2026-03-19 at 09:02 By Anamarija Pogorelec Secrets scanning has become standard practice across engineering organizations, and Gitleaks has been one of the most widely used tools in that space. The author of that project has now released a new tool called Betterleaks, which is designed to scan git repositories, directories, and

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VulHunt: Open-source vulnerability detection framework

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VulHunt: Open-source vulnerability detection framework 2026-03-16 at 07:40 By Anamarija Pogorelec Binarly has published VulHunt Community Edition, making the core scanning engine from Binarly’s commercial Transparency Platform available to independent researchers and practitioners. What VulHunt does VulHunt Community Edition is a framework for detecting vulnerabilities in compiled software. It operates against multiple binary representations simultaneously,

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Cloud-audit: Fast, open-source AWS security scanner

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Cloud-audit: Fast, open-source AWS security scanner 2026-03-11 at 09:21 By Mirko Zorz Running AWS security audits without a dedicated security team typically means choosing between enterprise platforms with per-check billing and generic open-source scanners that produce findings with no remediation guidance. Cloud-audit, a Python CLI tool published on GitHub by Mariusz Gebala, takes a narrower

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OpenWrt 25.12.0 ships with new package manager, built-in upgrade tool, support for 2200+ devices

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OpenWrt 25.12.0 ships with new package manager, built-in upgrade tool, support for 2200+ devices 2026-03-09 at 13:50 By Anamarija Pogorelec OpenWrt 25.12.0 is now available for download. The release incorporates over 4,700 commits since branching from OpenWrt 24.10. Package manager changes One of the most significant structural changes in 25.12.0 is the replacement of the

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Open-source tool Sage puts a security layer between AI agents and the OS

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Open-source tool Sage puts a security layer between AI agents and the OS 2026-03-09 at 08:06 By Anamarija Pogorelec Autonomous AI agents running on developer workstations execute shell commands, fetch URLs, and write files with little or no inspection of what they are doing. Open-source project Sage inserts an interception layer between an AI agent

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mquire: Open-source Linux memory forensics tool

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mquire: Open-source Linux memory forensics tool 2026-03-04 at 08:22 By Anamarija Pogorelec Linux memory forensics has long depended on debug symbols tied to specific kernel versions. These symbols are not installed on production systems by default, and sourcing them from external repositories creates a recurring problem: repositories go stale, kernel builds diverge, and analysts working

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IPFire ships its 200th core update with a new domain blocklist and kernel upgrade

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IPFire ships its 200th core update with a new domain blocklist and kernel upgrade 2026-03-02 at 18:31 By Anamarija Pogorelec Network firewall distribution IPFire released Core Update 200, marking the 200th incremental update to the 2.29 branch. The release bundles a kernel upgrade, a beta domain blocklist service, security patches for OpenSSL and glibc, and

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BlacksmithAI: Open-source AI-powered penetration testing framework

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BlacksmithAI: Open-source AI-powered penetration testing framework 2026-03-02 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz BlacksmithAI is an open-source penetration testing framework that uses multiple AI agents to execute different stages of a security assessment lifecycle. A multi-agent structure for offensive workflows BlacksmithAI runs as a hierarchical system in which an orchestrator coordinates task execution across specialized agents.

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Android app uses Bluetooth signals to detect nearby smart glasses

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Android app uses Bluetooth signals to detect nearby smart glasses 2026-02-27 at 10:17 By Anamarija Pogorelec Smart glasses with built-in cameras are showing up in more public spaces, and a growing number of people want a way to know when one is nearby. An Android app called Nearby Glasses, developed by Yves Jeanrenaud, attempts to

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Wireshark 4.6.4 resolves dissector flaws, plugin compatibility issue

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Wireshark 4.6.4 resolves dissector flaws, plugin compatibility issue 2026-02-26 at 10:49 By Anamarija Pogorelec Packet inspection remains a routine activity across enterprise networks, incident response workflows, and malware investigations. Continuous use places long-term stability and parsing accuracy at the center of daily operations. Wireshark version 4.6.4 addresses two vulnerabilities affecting protocol dissectors and resolves a

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Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: February 2026

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Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: February 2026 2026-02-26 at 07:07 By Anamarija Pogorelec This month’s roundup features exceptional open-source cybersecurity tools that are gaining attention for strengthening security across various environments. Pompelmi: Open-source secure file upload scanning for Node.js Software teams building services in JavaScript are adding more layers of defense to handle

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