Security: FOSS Versus Windows
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Report finds significant adoption of secure practices in OSS projects
According to some of the largest commercial users of Coverity, software shipped to customers can contain up to 90 percent open source code. In addition, there are now companies founded entirely on OSS proving that OSS is now the norm.
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11 Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) Say Open Source Software Provides Security, Potential for Cost Savings
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121 Pieces of Malware Flagged on NSA Employee's Home Computer
The personal computer used by the National Security Agency (NSA) employee who reportedly took classified tools from the office and loaded them onto that home machine was infected with a backdoor associated with Russian underground forums. Another 120 pieces of malware were flagged on the machine.
That's the latest finding of an internal investigation published today by Kaspersky Lab, which has been under scrutiny amid allegations that its software assisted Russian nation-state actors in stealing the NSA hacking tools off the employee's home computer, which was running Kaspersky Lab antivirus software. The security company has vigorously denied the allegations.
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Russian link to GCHQ alerts
A British intelligence agency has based warnings about hacking threats on research by a controversial Russian cybersecurity company.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), part of GCHQ, has published five “threat alerts” using information from Kaspersky Lab in the past year.
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NSA hacks planned using pirated Microsoft Windows, not antivirus
Kaspersky has accused the malware infected software of Microsoft, the reason for the NSA hack.
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Kaspersky says internal investigation proves its software hasn’t been tampered with
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