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Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security

Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money fosdem 2026 Open source registries are in financial peril, a co-founder of ...

SecureClaw by Adversa AI Launches as the First OWASP-Aligned Open-Source Security Plugin and Skill for OpenClaw AI Agents

Adversa AI today announced the release of SecureClaw, an open-source, OWASP-aligned security platform consisting of plugin and behavioral security skill designed to secure OpenClaw AI agents.

OpenClaw proves agentic AI works. It also proves your security model doesn't. 180,000 developers just made that your problem.

API keys and credentials. Agents operate inside authorized permissions where firewalls can't see. Traditional security models weren't built for this. Your developers are already experimenting.
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Claude Opus 4.6 Finds 500+ High-Severity Flaws Across Major Open-Source Libraries

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 identified 500+ unknown high-severity flaws in open-source projects, advancing AI-driven vulnerability detection.
Security

Open-source usage trends and security challenges revealed in new study

The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the release of “Census III of Free and Open Source Software—Application Libraries” (Census ...
Dark Reading

Half of Apps Have High-Risk Vulnerabilities Due to Open Source

The proportion of open source codebases with vulnerabilities has continued to remain level over the past two years, but the number of applications with high-risk vulnerabilities has dropped to its ...
Government Technology

Open Source Community Leaders Talk Promise vs. Vulnerability

Interest continues to build for creating a safer open source software ecosystem, in part because of the code vulnerability Log4Shell, which one recent report predicts will pose a risk for the next ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

How to Navigate Open-Source Security Without Stifling Innovation

Government interest in open-source software security is on the rise and reflects the scale upon which this code is utilized across all sectors, including critical infrastructure. The widespread usage ...
Dark Reading

Open Source Security Incidents Aren't Going Away

Open source security incidents aren't going away. The reliance on open source software (OSS) increases year-over-year, with more than 95% of all software, including open source, in some capacity. From ...
Network World

Open source vs. Windows: Security debate rages

It’s a topic of fierce debate among high-tech cognoscenti: What’s more secure – “open source” code such as Linux and Apache, or proprietary “closed source” operating systems and applications, ...
Homeland Security Today

Aeva Black Joins CISA as Open Source Security Lead

Open-source hacker Aeva Black has come on board at DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency as the Open Source Security Lead, a role that the agency said will strengthen efforts to ensure ...