For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...

Am I Isolated is an open-source container security benchmark that probes users’ runtime environments and tests for container isolation. Argus: Open-source information gathering toolkit Argus is an ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

AI is changing how security teams find vulnerabilities, analyze code, test applications, and protect infrastructure. Developers are building tools to secure AI systems themselves, from coding agents ...

Open Printer challenges traditional printers with a repairable open hardware design Raspberry Pi powers a printer built around user control The project rejects DRM restrictions through open firmware ...

Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system administration, network administration, and consulting roles. He ...

QA professionals have a lot of options when choosing an automated testing tool. To start, testers can consider two broad categories of tools: proprietary and open source. Which category of tool is ...

If your IT team needs a low-cost, lock-in-free cloud monitoring tool, open source might be the way to go. Cloud computing continues to skyrocket in popularity. However, because infrastructure and ...

Every year InfoWorld painstakingly selects its Bossie Award winners — the best open source software for business — and every year we have shamefully neglected the very cream of the open source crop.