Earlier this year, a Microsoft developer realized that someone had inserted a backdoor into the code of open source utility XZ Utils, which is used in virtually all Linux operating systems. The ...

Open source designs offer flexibility, yet they also create long-term dependency paths that may hide more risk than developers expect. Many companies now treat container security as the first real ...

University of Birmingham experts have created open-source computer software that helps scientists understand how fast-moving ...

'Like handing out the blueprint to a bank vault': Why AI led one company to abandon open source ...

Open-source software will continue its march through the enterprise technology stack, buoyed by AI and (hopefully) transformative funding solutions that address sustainability. Over the past decades, ...

In 2025, Daniel Stenberg, the chief maintainer of cURL, an open-source software tool that transfers data using URLs, received 181 notifications of bugs or vulnerabilities across the codebase he ...

The open source database company marks 20 years with a new brand and a direct challenge to an industry selling open source while locking the door behind it ...

For the longest time, open-source was nothing more than a buzzword rattling around the brains of technologists and fans of the Linux operating system. Flash forward a decade or so and open-source has ...

Backed by Sonatype's industry-leading security research team, Sonatype Repository Firewall helped customers prevent 136,107 open source malware attacks in Q1. To explore the full findings from the Q1 ...

And the funny thing is, it seems like it's completely legal.