The Hacker News - Cybersecurity News and Analysis: Open Source

Lodash, a popular npm library used by more than 4 million projects on GitHub alone, is affected by a high severity security vulnerability...

Developers around the world depend on open source components to build their software products. According to industry estimates, open source ...

What just happened would definitely gonna surprise you. Linus Torvalds—father of the Linux open-source operating system—finally admitte...

Facebook has open sourced Fizz—a library designed to help developers implement TLS 1.3 protocol with all recommended security and perform...

A security researcher has found four vulnerabilities, including a critical remote code execution bug, in OpenVPN, those were not even cau...

The National Security Agency (NSA) — the United States intelligence agency which is known for its secrecy and working in the dark — has f...

Microsoft has announced to shut down CodePlex -- its website for hosting repositories of open-source software projects -- on December 15,...

Last year Google employees took an initiative to help thousands of Open Source Projects patch a critical remote code execution vulnerabil...

WhatsApp and Facebook have so far the largest end-to-end encrypted video calling network of all, but now another popular end-to-end encry...

You won't believe your eyes while reading this, but this is true. Microsoft just joined the Linux Foundation as a high-paying Platinu...

After TrueCrypt mysteriously discontinued its service, VeraCrypt became the most popular open source disk encryption software used by a...

OSquery , an open-source framework created by Facebook that allows organizations to look for potential malware or malicious activity on t...

In past few months, Microsoft opened the source code of a lot of its projects, convincing people that the company loves Linux . But a ...

Researchers have designed a new computer chip that promises to boost the performance of computers and data centers while processing appli...

'Microsoft loves Linux' and this has never been so true than now. Microsoft today made its PowerShell scripting language and c...

Do you have any idea what the software you have installed is doing stealthily in the background? If it's not an open source software,...

Hacking into computer, networks and websites could easily land you in jail. But what if you could freely test and practice your hacking s...

The 21st century is witnessing a great change over in the daily life of folks with the advent of IoT devices that are capable of talking...

Google appears to be no longer using Java application programming interfaces (APIs) from Oracle in future versions of its Android mobile...

Microsoft has announced the plans to open source the core components of its " Chakra " – the JavaScript engine behind the new ...