In the early 2000s, when open source was just starting to pick up, there was a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt cast around it by some proprietary software suppliers. But in the last decade or so, there has been wide adoption of open source software and it is now […]
Quarter of DevOps Suffer Open Source Component Breaches
A quarter of organizations have suffered a breach related to their application development process over the past year, with most of these coming via open source components, according to Sonatype. The DevOps automation firm’s 2020 DevSecOps Community Survey is based on responses from 5045 software professionals […]
Linux Foundation To Support seL4 Foundation
The Linux Foundation will be hosting seL4 Foundation, the nonprofit organization established by Data61 (the digital specialist arm for Australia’s national science agency CSIRO). The seL4 microkernel is designed to ensure the security, safety and reliability of real-world critical computer systems. The new Foundation aims to accelerate the commercial development […]
Google reavels CryEngine support for Android
Whenever you think of games with stunning graphics, the Crysis series still makes the list. Those games seriously pushed the limits of PC hardware, to show the kinds of incredible graphics and performance that could be accomplished. In fact, many people will still use games from that series as a […]
Robotic Process Automation (RPA): 6 open source tools
As with many new software implementations, there’s a build-or-buy choice when getting started with Robotic Process Automation (RPA). On the build side, you can write your own bots from scratch, provided you’ve got the right people and budget in place. On the buy side, there’s a burgeoning marketplace of commercial […]
The top open source licenses
Open-source security and license compliance management platform provider WhiteSource has released a complete guide for understanding and learning about open source licenses. According to the guide, open-source licenses can be categorized under copyleft or permissive. Under a copyleft license, users who use a component of the open-source software must make […]
These hackers have been quietly targeting Linux servers for years
Hacking campaigns linked to China have been exploiting vulnerabilities in Linux servers in an operation which successfully stayed under the radar for almost a decade. Detailed by researchers at BlackBerry, the operation, linked to the interests of the Chinese government, is conducting hacking and cyber espionage […]