Companies are treating these repositories like content delivery networks - now the Linux Foundation and colleagues are saying ...

The Open Source Security Foundation today launched its Malicious Packages Repository, an open-source system for collecting and publishing cross-ecosystem reports of malicious packages. Claimed to be ...

I've been learning two methods for installing applications in Linux, compile from source, or install using a repository. The second method is much easier but I wonder what is really the suggested ...

A security researcher has uncovered a security vulnerability that allowed him to run code on internal systems belonging to major companies, including Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Netflix Inc., PayPal ...

Dependency confusion is a newly discovered logic flaw in the default way software development tools pull third-party packages from public and private repositories. Attackers can take advantage of this ...

Trellix reports source code breach with partial repository access, no exploitation found, raising security concerns.

Trellix says a part of its source code repository was recently breached, but shared little other information about the ...

Open Source Development Labs, which promotes the adoption of the Linux operating system, has revealed potential plans for a repository of open-source code which could be used by the patent industry to ...

Arabcrunch has accused major open-source repository SourceForge of blocking all access to software projects it hosts for anyone in Syria, Sudan, Iran, North Korea and Cuba. Not surprisingly, this ...

Unknown threat actors have uploaded a massive 144,294 phishing-related packages on open-source package repositories, inluding NPM, PyPi, and NuGet. The large-scale attack resulted from automation, as ...