India’s contact tracing app made open source, but will this thwart a surveillance state?
Two days ago, the government of India announced, in a seemingly miraculous turn of events, that it would publicly release the source code for its...
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The best way to protect the US electrical grid is with open source
Recently, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to protect the US electricity grid from cyber attacks by blocking power-equipment imports from “foreign adversaries.”...
Industry Reactions to Alliance for Open 5G Systems: Feedback Friday
More than 30 technology and telecom companies announced this week that they have formed a new alliance, the Open RAN Policy Coalition, that calls...
More Than 30 Firms Join Alliance Calling for ‘Open’ 5G systems
More than 30 technology and telecom firms unveiled an alliance Tuesday to press for “open and interoperable” 5G wireless systems that eliminate the need...
Can open source software be bought? – E Hacking News
Open-source softwares (OSS) are released under a special license that makes its source code available to the user to inspect, use, modify and enhance....
Sophos Releases Sandboxie in Open Source
Sophos this week announced that the source code of isolation tool Sandboxie is now publicly available. Sandboxie was initially developed by Ronen Tzur, who...
Financial companies leak 425GB in company, client data through open database
You’ll need more than an antivirus: ‘Malware-free’ attacks on the rise Malware-free or fileless techniques accounted for 51% of attacks last year, compared to...
Browser vendor leaks data via open server
Image: ZDNet A browser vendor leaked user data after it accidentally left an Elasticsearch server exposed on the internet without a password. The leak...
Currency Data Provider ‘Open Exchange Rates’ Discloses Breach
Currency data provider Open Exchange Rates has started informing customers that their information was likely stolen by hackers. Open Exchange Rates provides a currency...
OCA Launches First Open Source Language to Connect Security Tools – E Hacking News
On Monday, The availability of OpenDXL Ontology – the first open-source language for connecting cybersecurity tools via a common messaging framework has been announced...