Articles Tagged “Open Source Security”
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Rustinel Is a Fast Open-Source EDR Built in Rust
Rustinel, launched July 8, is an open-source endpoint detection tool in Rust that unifies Windows and Linux monitoring into one clean codebase.
CVE Lite CLI Scans npm Projects Right in Your Terminal
CVE Lite CLI, now an OWASP Incubator project, checks JavaScript lockfiles against the OSV database and suggests one-line fixes for npm, pnpm, Yarn, and Bun.
New Open-Source Tools Help Blue Teams Defend AI Agents
A fresh wave of open-source security tools gives blue teams free, community-built defense for the AI agent era, protecting the newest attack surface.
Kali Linux 2026.2 Ships New Tools and Faster Boots for Security Pros
Kali Linux 2026.2 adds nine open-source penetration testing tools, roughly 3x faster VM boot, and fresh desktops for defenders and learners.
New Open-Source Tools Help Defenders Secure AI Agents
June's open-source security roundup brings free tools for the AI-agent era: DockSec's AI-powered container fixes and detections for prompt injection.
Linux Foundation Launches Akrites to Defend Open Source From AI Threats
On June 25, 2026, the Linux Foundation and 20 industry leaders launched Akrites to find, fix, and disclose open-source vulnerabilities ahead of AI-enabled threats.
Responsible Disclosure Helps Secure Dify, an AI Platform Powering 1M+ Apps
Security researchers responsibly disclosed the DifyTap flaws in the popular Dify AI platform on June 22, 2026 — and fixes shipped quickly, protecting more than a million AI apps.
Filigran's XTM One Puts AI Agents to Work on Threat Exposure
Filigran's XTM One uses AI agents to automate the full threat-exposure lifecycle through plain language, with bring-your-own-LLM and air-gapped deployment support.
depthfirst's Dependency Firewall Blocks Malicious Packages Before They Install
Launched June 1, 2026, depthfirst's Dependency Firewall vets every open-source package before install — approving safe ones, quarantining the suspicious, and blocking the malicious.
Project Lightwell: IBM and Red Hat's $5B AI Open-Source Security Push
IBM and Red Hat launch Project Lightwell, a $5B AI-powered open-source security effort that validates fixes at scale and feeds patches upstream.
Microsoft Open-Sources RAMPART and Clarity — A Safety-First Toolkit for AI Agent Development
Microsoft released RAMPART and Clarity as open-source tools on May 20, 2026 — operationalizing AI agent safety by turning red-team findings into repeatable tests and documenting design assumptions in agent workflows.
Microsoft Open-Sources the Agent Governance Toolkit: Runtime Security for Every AI Agent You Deploy
Microsoft's Agent Governance Toolkit is open-source runtime security for AI agents — covering all 10 OWASP agentic AI risks at sub-millisecond enforcement.
Cisco Releases DefenseClaw: Open-Source Framework for Securing AI Agents
Cisco unveils DefenseClaw at RSAC 2026, an open-source framework that scans AI agents for vulnerabilities across MCP tools and can quarantine threats in 2 seconds.
NVIDIA Open-Sources NemoClaw — A Security-First Stack for Deploying Autonomous AI Agents on Any Hardware
Built on the OpenClaw platform, NemoClaw bundles Nemotron models with sandboxed execution and privacy controls, enabling secure AI agent deployment from RTX laptops to DGX clusters.
OpenAI's Codex Security Scanned 1.2 Million Commits and Found 10,561 High-Severity Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Projects
The AI-powered security agent discovers critical bugs in OpenSSH, Chromium, PHP, and GnuTLS during its research preview, with false positive rates dropping 50% over 30 days.















