May 24, 2022
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Comments Off on Jetstack Helps Turn Security Policies into Actions
VALENCIA, Spain — Unless you’ve been hiding out under a rock, you know securing the software supply chain has become security’s job number one. From SolarWinds, Codecov, and Kaseya, to name but a few, the last few years were bad … Continue reading
May 24, 2022
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Crane Venture Partners supports open source developers with an itch to scratch
Crane Venture Partners offers a different kind of VC that is laser-focused on helping open source developers get the funding they need to turn their itch into a scratch and then a business. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing…Read More
March 7, 2022
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Open Source Zone grinds away at patent trolls
Patent trolls, aka Patent Assertion Entities (PAE)s, have plagued open-source software for ages. Over the years though, other groups have risen up to keep them from stealing from the companies and organizations that actually use patents’ intellectual property (IP). One … Continue reading
February 21, 2022
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Comments Off on Nasty Linux Kernel Stack Overflow Flaw Found and Patched
Here we go again. Another obnoxious security bug, CVE-2022-0435: A Remote Stack Overflow in The Linux Kernel was found by Appgate senior exploit developer Samuel Page while he was poking around at a Linux heap overflow security bug, CVE-2021-43267 from November 2021. Page’s discovery is a remotely … Continue reading
February 18, 2022
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Comments Off on JFrog Finds RCE Issue in Apache Cassandra
It’s always something when it comes to security. This time around the JFrog’s Security Research team has found a remote code execution (RCE) issue in Apache Cassandra, the popular open source NoSQL database. And, oh joy, of course with this RCE, you can … Continue reading
February 18, 2022
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Comments Off on Linux developers patch security holes faster than anyone else, says Google Project Zero
There’s a lot of FUD about how Linux is being shown recently to be less secure than proprietary systems. That’s nonsense. But, now there are hard facts from Google’s Project Zero, Google’s security research team, showing Linux’s developers do a faster job … Continue reading