Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2020
GitHub has issued a security alert warning of a malware campaign that is spreading on its platform via boobytrapped NetBeans Java projects. GitHub has issued a security alert warning of a piece of malware dubbed Octopus Scanner that is spreading on its platform via boobytrapped NetBeans Java projects. GitHub’s security team discovered the malicious code […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2020
The popular cross-platform encrypted messaging service Signal has been chosen by the European Commission for its communications. The European Commission has decided to adopt for its staff the popular cross-platform encrypted messaging service Signal for its communications. The news was first reported earlier this month by the Politico website, a message issued on the commissionâs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 26, 2017
Microsoft announced the availability of Sonar, an open source linting and website scanning tool that was developed by the Microsoft Edge team. The open source tool was designed to allow developers to identify and solve performance and security issues, it is available on GitHub. The Microsoft Edge team donated Sonar to the JS Foundation, the tech giant will […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2017
Netflix has released the Stethoscope open source web application that provides recommendations for securing their devices. Netflix has released Stethoscope, an open source web application that provides recommendations for securing computers, smartphones, and tablets. Netflix intends to follow a âuser focused securityâ approach that aims to provide employees information to improve their security posture, rather than […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 30, 2015
Ian Murdock died in mysterious circumstances, is it a suicide or a murder? There are still a lot of things unclear. I’m shocked, Ian Murdock, the founder the Debian Linux operating system, one of the most brilliant minds of IT industry has passed away. How many times did you use the command apt-get, well it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 17, 2015
The British intelligence agency GCHQ has released the Gaffer database as an open source project. Gaffer is sort of database written in Java that makes it “easy to store large-scale graphs in which the nodes and edges have statistics such as counts, histograms and sketches.”, its code is available for download on the code-sharing website Github. “Gaffer is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2015
The End-to-end encrypted database ZeroDB becomes open source and its code is available on GitHub, try it and contribute to the community with your experience. While politicians and experts are debating around encryption, the End-to-end encrypted database ZeroDB becomes open source and its code is available on GitHub. ZeroDB is an end-to-end encrypted database in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2015
Hashcat, the popular password recovery tool has been released as open source under the MIT license. You can contribute to it. The popular password cracking tool Hashcat is not an open source software, the announcement was first made on December 4 on Twitter via an MD5 hash that posted  the following message: âhashcat open sourceâ @hashcat […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 18, 2015
The US Intelligence National Security Agency (NSA) has just released a network security tool dubbed Systems Integrity Management Platform (SIMP). The US Intelligence National Security Agency (NSA) has released a network security tool. Dubbed Systems Integrity Management Platform (SIMP), designed and distributed to secure the networks of organizations improving the resilience to cyber attacks. According to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2015
Secunia firm issued its annual report on vulnerabilities exploited in 2014 in most popular software, a document which includes key figures and facts. Secunia has recently released its annual study of trends in software vulnerabilities, an interesting report that highlights the impact of the presence of flaws in common software and provide useful details on the […]
