Linux and open source are also on track to become more secure in 2026, as the ecosystem simultaneously hardens the kernel, ...

A big majority (89%) of IT chiefs believe open-source software is as secure as proprietary software, according to a survey by IBM-owned Red Hat, the maintainer of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Red ...

The Linux Foundation and Harvard's Lab for Innovation Science this week released the rankings of the top 500 open source projects in two major ecosystems in the first step toward cataloging the ...

Software supply chain attacks are evolving as open source and AI-generated code introduce new third-party risks. Learn how ...

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, ...

The Linux Foundation and the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) have introduced the Open Source Software Security Mobilization Plan. This is in response to attacks on the software supply chain ...

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2025 included a number of monumental threats, from global nation-state attacks to a critical vulnerability under widespread ...

The idea of a lone programmer relying on their own genius and technical acumen to create the next great piece of software was always a stretch. Today it is more of a myth than ever. Competitive market ...

Google announced a new initiative Tuesday aimed at securing the open-source software supply chain by curating and distributing a security-vetted collection of open-source packages to Google Cloud ...

Just like you probably don't grow and grind wheat to make flour for your bread, most software developers don't write every line of code in a new project from scratch. Doing so would be extremely slow ...

Nate Nead is the CEO of DEV.co and SEO.co. Nate and his teams specialize in custom software development, web design and digital marketing. Open-source software is becoming increasingly popular for ...