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 ...

When Google Code, Google’s free hosting for open source projects, began shutting down in 2015, the developer community was reasonably upset. Google seems to have taken some of that criticism to heart ...

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 ...

Opinion I'm at the Linux Foundation Members Summit, and Sonatype's CTO Brian Fox introduced me to a new open source problem. I wouldn't have thought that was possible, but here I am.… Fox, who also ...

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 ...

Researchers have uncovered yet another supply chain attack targeting an open source code repository, showing that the technique, which has gained wide use in the past few years, isn’t going away any ...

As a Google Pixel user, I’m admittedly pretty far from the open source ideal of Android, but that doesn’t mean I can’t still enjoy open source apps. While I don’t use a ton of them, I surprised myself ...

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 ...

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 ...