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Wireshark 4.6.0 brings major updates for packet analysis and decryption

Wireshark 4.6.0 brings major updates for packet analysis and decryption 2025-10-23 at 17:10 By Anamarija Pogorelec If you’ve ever used Wireshark to dig into network traffic you know how vital even small upgrades can be. With version 4.6.0 the team behind the open-source network protocol analyzer has added a number of features that could change […]

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OpenFGA: The open-source engine redefining access control

OpenFGA: The open-source engine redefining access control 2025-10-22 at 15:13 By Sinisa Markovic OpenFGA is an open-source, high-performance, and flexible authorization engine inspired by Google’s Zanzibar system for relationship-based access control. It helps developers model and enforce fine-grained access control in their applications. At its core, OpenFGA enables teams to define who can do what

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Nodepass: Open-source TCP/UDP tunneling solution

Nodepass: Open-source TCP/UDP tunneling solution 2025-10-20 at 13:18 By Sinisa Markovic When you think of network tunneling, “lightweight” and “enterprise-grade” rarely appear in the same sentence. NodePass, an open-source project, wants to change that. It’s a compact but powerful TCP/UDP tunneling solution built for DevOps teams and system administrators who need to manage complex network

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Maltrail: Open-source malicious traffic detection system

Maltrail: Open-source malicious traffic detection system 2025-10-15 at 08:30 By Sinisa Markovic Maltrail is an open-source network traffic detection system designed to spot malicious or suspicious activity. It works by checking traffic against publicly available blacklists, as well as static lists compiled from antivirus reports and user-defined sources. These “trails” can include domain names, URLs,

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Nagios: Open-source monitoring solution

Nagios: Open-source monitoring solution 2025-10-10 at 08:19 By Anamarija Pogorelec Nagios is an open-source monitoring solution, now included as part of the robust Nagios Core Services Platform (CSP). It delivers end-to-end visibility across the entire IT infrastructure, covering everything from websites and DNS to servers, routers, switches, workstations, and critical services. It helps organizations proactively

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DefectDojo: Open-source DevSecOps platform

DefectDojo: Open-source DevSecOps platform 2025-10-08 at 09:39 By Anamarija Pogorelec DefectDojo is an open-source tool for DevSecOps, application security posture management (ASPM), and vulnerability management. It helps teams manage security testing, track and remove duplicate findings, handle remediation, and generate reports. Whether you’re a solo security practitioner or a CISO managing multiple teams, DefectDojo helps

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New system aims to keep people connected when networks fail

New system aims to keep people connected when networks fail 2025-10-08 at 07:32 By Sinisa Markovic When disaster strikes, communication often fails. Cell towers can go offline, internet connections can disappear, and people are left without a way to share information or ask for help. A new research project looks at how to keep people

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Proxmox Mail Gateway: Open-source email security solution reaches version 9.0

Proxmox Mail Gateway: Open-source email security solution reaches version 9.0 2025-10-06 at 08:06 By Anamarija Pogorelec First released in 2005, the open-source Proxmox Mail Gateway has become a widely adopted mail proxy, positioned between the firewall and the internal mail server to stop threats before they reach users. The platform delivers anti-spam and antivirus filtering

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Protegrity Developer Edition: Free containerized Python package to secure AI pipelines

Protegrity Developer Edition: Free containerized Python package to secure AI pipelines 2025-10-03 at 09:39 By Help Net Security Protegrity Developer Edition enables developers, data scientists, ML engineers, and security teams an easy way to add data protection into GenAI and unstructured data workflows, without the need for enterprise setup. Billed as the first enterprise-grade, governance-focused

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OpenSSL 3.6.0: New features, crypto support

OpenSSL 3.6.0: New features, crypto support 2025-10-02 at 17:54 By Anamarija Pogorelec The OpenSSL Project has announced the release of OpenSSL 3.6.0, a feature update that brings significant functionality improvements, standards compliance, and a few key deprecations that developers and security teams will need to keep in mind. Key cryptographic enhancements OpenSSL 3.6.0 introduces several

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Chekov: Open-source static code analysis tool

Chekov: Open-source static code analysis tool 2025-10-02 at 09:18 By Sinisa Markovic Checkov is an open-source tool designed to help teams secure their cloud infrastructure and code. At its core, it’s a static code analysis tool for infrastructure as code (IaC), but it also goes a step further by providing software composition analysis (SCA) for

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The hidden risks inside open-source code

The hidden risks inside open-source code 2025-09-30 at 09:12 By Mirko Zorz Open-source software is everywhere. It runs the browsers we use, the apps we rely on, and the infrastructure that keeps businesses connected. For many security leaders, it is simply part of the environment, not something they think about every day. That is where

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Firezone: Open-source platform to securely manage remote access

Firezone: Open-source platform to securely manage remote access 2025-09-29 at 08:36 By Sinisa Markovic Firezone is an open-source platform that helps organizations of any size manage secure remote access. Unlike most VPNs, it uses a least-privileged model, giving users only the access they need. Firezone was built to scale from the start, so you can

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Delinea releases free open-source MCP server to secure AI agents

Delinea releases free open-source MCP server to secure AI agents 2025-09-26 at 08:06 By Sinisa Markovic AI agents are becoming more common in the workplace, but giving them access to sensitive systems can be risky. Credentials often get stored in plain text, added to prompts, or passed around without proper oversight. Delinea wants to fix

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Kali Linux 2025.3 brings improved virtual machine tooling, 10 new tools

Kali Linux 2025.3 brings improved virtual machine tooling, 10 new tools 2025-09-24 at 12:19 By Zeljka Zorz OffSec has released Kali Linux 2025.3, the most up-to-date version of its popular penetration testing and digital forensics platform. What’s new in Kali Linux 2025.3 Better virtual machine tooling The way Kali builds and ships its VM images

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Nosey Parker: Open-source tool finds sensitive information in textual data and Git history

Nosey Parker: Open-source tool finds sensitive information in textual data and Git history 2025-09-24 at 08:10 By Anamarija Pogorelec Nosey Parker is an open-source command-line tool that helps find secrets and sensitive information hidden in text files. It works like a specialized version of grep, focused on spotting things like passwords, API keys, and other

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Cybersecurity AI (CAI): Open-source framework for AI security

Cybersecurity AI (CAI): Open-source framework for AI security 2025-09-22 at 10:29 By Anamarija Pogorelec Cybersecurity AI (CAI) is an open-source framework that helps security teams build and run AI-driven tools for offensive and defensive tasks. It’s designed for anyone working in security, including researchers, ethical hackers, IT staff, and organizations that want to use AI

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Behind the scenes of cURL with its founder: Releases, updates, and security

Behind the scenes of cURL with its founder: Releases, updates, and security 2025-09-18 at 09:01 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Daniel Stenberg, lead developer od cURL, discusses how the widely used tool remains secure across billions of devices, from cloud services to IoT. He shares insights into cURL’s decades-long journey of

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Rayhunter: EFF releases open-source tool to detect cellular spying

Rayhunter: EFF releases open-source tool to detect cellular spying 2025-09-17 at 08:12 By Anamarija Pogorelec The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released Rayhunter, a new open-source tool designed to detect cell site simulators (CSS). These devices, also known as IMSI catchers or Stingrays, mimic cell towers to trick phones into connecting so they can collect

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Product showcase: Clean Links exposes what’s hiding behind a QR code

Product showcase: Clean Links exposes what’s hiding behind a QR code 2025-09-16 at 08:40 By Anamarija Pogorelec Clean Links is a handy app that shows you exactly where a link will take you before you click it. It strips out trackers, expands shortened URLs, and helps you avoid scams while saving you time and frustration.

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