New infosec products of the week: November 5, 2021

Here’s a look at the most interesting product releases from the past week, featuring releases from Cynamics, Imperva, Linux Foundation, Netscout and Tenable. Nessus 10 is out, with Raspberry Pi support Tenable has released Nessus 10 and extended suppor… Continue reading New infosec products of the week: November 5, 2021

Industry leaders come together to drive the growth of eBPF as a transformational technology

The Linux Foundation announced that it is hosting the eBPF Foundation. Founding members include Facebook, Google, Isovalent, Microsoft and Netflix. This comes in advance of the eBPF Summit, a free and virtual event taking place August 18-19, 2021. eBPF… Continue reading Industry leaders come together to drive the growth of eBPF as a transformational technology

Databricks Delta Sharing protocol secures real time data sharing between organizations

Databricks announced the launch of a new open source project called Delta Sharing, an open protocol for securely sharing data across organizations in real time, completely independent of the platform on which the data resides. Delta Sharing is included… Continue reading Databricks Delta Sharing protocol secures real time data sharing between organizations

University of Minnesota researchers fail to understand consent

You’d think with all the recent discussion about consent, researchers would more carefully observe ethical boundaries. Yet, a group of researchers from the University of Minnesota not only crossed the line but ran across it, screaming defiantly t… Continue reading University of Minnesota researchers fail to understand consent

Linux Foundation Research to broaden understanding of open source ecosystem and impact

The Linux Foundation announced Linux Foundation Research, a new division that will broaden the understanding of open source projects, ecosystem dynamics, and impact, with never before seen insights on the efficacy of open source collaboration as a mean… Continue reading Linux Foundation Research to broaden understanding of open source ecosystem and impact

Free sigstore signing service confirms software origin and authenticity

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling innovation through open source, today announced the sigstore project, which improves the security of the software supply chain by enabling the easy adoption of cryptographic software signing bac… Continue reading Free sigstore signing service confirms software origin and authenticity

Google underwrites two full-time maintainers for Linux kernel security development

Google and the Linux Foundation announced they are prioritizing funds to underwrite two full-time maintainers for Linux kernel security development, Gustavo Silva and Nathan Chancellor. Silva and Chancellor’s exclusive focus is to maintain and improve … Continue reading Google underwrites two full-time maintainers for Linux kernel security development

Linux Foundation and Magma collaborate to accelerate deployment of wireless networks

The Linux Foundation announced that it will launch an open source industry collaboration focused on enabling a converged cellular core network stack, starting with the Magma open source software platform. Previously open sourced by Facebook in 2019, Ma… Continue reading Linux Foundation and Magma collaborate to accelerate deployment of wireless networks

TTTech Industrial launches commercial product based on the Linux Foundation’s ACRN hypervisor

TTTech Industrial is launching the first commercial product based on the Linux Foundation‘s ACRN hypervisor for the industrial market. With the latest release of its Nerve Blue industrial edge computing platform, TTTech Industrial is making ACRN … Continue reading TTTech Industrial launches commercial product based on the Linux Foundation’s ACRN hypervisor

Open source contributors spending no time on security

The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) announced the release of a report which details the findings of a contributor survey administered by the organizations and focu… Continue reading Open source contributors spending no time on security