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Open Source Vulnerabilities: Are You Prepared to Run the Race?

14

Dec

2017

After going through 24 seasons of cross-country, winter track, and spring track with my boys, I fully understand that if you put your toe on the line, you had better be prepared to race, or bad things happen. As the use of open source continues to rise, many organizations are putting their toes on the […]

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Popular network tool Nmap in CNET security brouhaha

06

Dec

2011

Gordon Lyon is a popular, successful and charismatic open-source software maker. Right now, he’s not a happy man. You probably know him better by his nickname, Fyodor (after Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author of Notes From Undergound). He is the creator and maintainer of the widely-used network auditing and penetration-testing tool Nmap. You probably know Nmap. If […]

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US SCADA infrastructure woefully unprotected

19

Nov

2011

It has been reported that a SCADA systems failure at a municipal water processing plant may have been caused by hackers infiltrating their network. The attackers were repeatedly turning a pump on and off until it caused the pump to fail, raising an alert to the operators. Upon investigation they determined that attackers may have […]

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