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January 13, 2022
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Wireshark creator joins Sysdig to extend it to cloud security

Wireshark creator joins Sysdig to extend it to cloud security

If you’re a real network administrator, you know and love open source Wireshark. For over 15-years, it’s been the tool that professionals use for network traffic protocol analysis. Nothing else even comes close. Now, Sysdig, the container and cloud security company, has hired … Continue reading →

January 13, 2022
by sjvn01
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EVerest: The open source software stack for EV charging infrastructure

Even if you’d never buy a Tesla, electric vehicles (EVs) are the future. There’s only one big problem. Unlike a gas-based car, where you can always find a gas station when you need to top off, there’s nothing like enough … Continue reading →

January 13, 2022
by sjvn01
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When open-source developers go bad

Chances are unless you’re a JavaScript programmer, you’ve never heard of the open-source Javascript libraries ‘colors.js‘ and ‘faker.js.” They’re simple programs that respectively let you use colored text on your node.js, a popular JavaScript runtime, console, and create fake data for testing. Faker.js is used … Continue reading →

January 12, 2022
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Open source isn’t the security problem – misusing it is

Open source isn’t the security problem – misusing it is

We’re going to be cleaning up Apache Log4j security problems for months to come, but the real problem isn’t that it was open-source software. It’s how we track and use open-source code. When security vulnerabilities were found in the extremely popular … Continue reading →

January 11, 2022
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Stop Making Old Code Mistakes with Bridgecrew’s Smart Fixes

Stop Making Old Code Mistakes with Bridgecrew’s Smart Fixes

When Palo Alto Networks (PANW) acquired Bridgecrew, the aim was to enable “shift left” security, with Prisma Cloud becoming the first cloud security platform to deliver security across the full application lifecycle. Now, with the release of Smart Fixes, it’s easier to see why PANW paid about … Continue reading →