A new report out today from Fortinet Inc.’s FortiGuard Labs highlights a growing wave of malicious software packages exploiting system vulnerabilities. Based on data collected since November 2024, the ...

Keeping your software updated is essential. Updates include new features and bug fixes that can help while using apps during production sessions, gaming, or media consumption. The Windows Package ...

This kind of attack is very difficult to detect and might lead to full compromise of systems, leading to cyberespionage or financial crime. As recently exposed by Cisco Talos, software supply chain ...

Open source and third-party software bugs haunt even the best developers’ projects, despite the industry’s best efforts to avoid them. The amount of insecure software tied to reused third-party ...

Linux software repositories have many benefits. But, like what happens in app stores, companies end support for them and your system stops getting updates. Eight years ago, Nokia released a ...

The version of ownCloud in Ubuntu’s Universe repositories is old and full of “multiple critical security vulnerabilities.” It’s no secret. The ownCloud project itself asked Ubuntu to remove it so ...

A typical Linux system is largely comprised of unrestricted, open-source software. But some of the most popular software around is either closed-source or open-source, but restricted by patents.

Homebrew bills itself as the package manager MacOS never had (conveniently ignoring MacPorts) but they leave the PPC crowd criminally under-served, to say nothing of the 68k gang. Enter [that-ben] ...

Administrators of the Python Package Index (PyPI) have removed 10 malicious software code packages from the registry after a security vendor informed them about the issue. The incident is the latest ...