A number of popular services, including Apple iCloud, Twitter, Cloudflare, Minecraft and Steam, are reportedly vulnerable to a zero-day exploit affecting a popular Java logging library. The vulnerability, dubbed “Log4Shell” by researchers at LunaSec and credited to Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba, has been found in Apache Log4j, an open source logging utility that’s used in […]
AutoCloud raises $4M to commercialize its OSS cloud visualization service
AutoCloud announced a $4 million seed round this morning. The cloud-focused startup’s investment was led by Animo Ventures, with participating checks from Uncorrelated Ventures, B Capital Group and Moxxie Ventures. AutoCloud is the commercial side of the CloudGraph open source project. The hybrid open source (OSS) and commercial combination is an increasingly popular startup method […]
What open source-based startups can learn from Confluent’s success story
Confluent’s approach of growing from open source to commercial product has worked out well — the company defied conventional wisdom and still ended up thriving.
Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, raises trust and security questions over its e2e encryption
Frances Haugen, one of (now) multiple Facebook whistleblowers who have come forward in recent years with damning testimony related to product safety, gave testimony in front of the UK parliament today — where, in one key moment, she was invited to clarify her views on end-to-end encryption following a report in the British newspaper the […]
Ethereum: The great handshake
Ethereum and the emergence of Web 3.0 paint a shifting picture — an internet not just private, but open and transparent by default.
Appsmith raises $8M to take on the internal corporate app market with open source code
Appsmith, which provides open source software that helps companies quickly build internal applications, announced an $8 million Series A round of funding this morning. Unlike some upstart tech companies that we have seen in the internal application market, Appsmith doesn’t sport a no- or low-code approach. Instead, Appsmith targets traditional developers with its service, which […]
Ransomware: A market problem deserves a market solution
To fight ransomware attacks, appreciate the economics — the markets that enable ransomware — and change the market dynamics.
The stars are aligning for federal IT open source software adoption
While the government has made a number of moves in a more open direction in recent years, the story of open source in federal IT has often seemed more about potential than reality.
To prevent cyberattacks, the government should limit the scope of a software bill of materials
There is no reason to disdain the concept of SBOM outright. Indeed, it’s heartening to see the federal government take cybersecurity so seriously.
Stingle is a privacy-focused, open source photo backup application
The mobile app encrypts your photos before uploading them to the cloud.