By Ikram (@Ikram-4)

Meet AirTell: an open-source, LLM accelerated fork of NCCGroup's Sniffle unifying BLE 5 defense, counter-surveillance, and offensive sec.

Picture the desk in front of you right now…

During a web application security assessment, I investigated how an application handled unusual URL paths and whether its redirect logic…

TL;DR On October 16, 2026, Apache disclosed 12 Apache Kylin vulnerabilities, including a critical SQL injection flaw, CVE-2026-64959. Version 5.0.5 fixes all of them. Meanwhile, Apache Airflow pat…

Open banking and FinTech platforms depend heavily on APIs. APIs allow banks, payment providers, mobile applications, merchants, and…

OpenCode, the open-source coding agent, disclosed on October 17, 2026 that an intruder reached a legacy system on the night of October 16…

Kernel Maintainers Vote to Retire the Tag At the Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit on October 8, attendees agreed to scrap the Assisted-by tag in patches. On October 14, the related revert patch lan…

The GNOME Project Opens Its Own OS to Everyone The GNOME project has released a public GNOME OS preview. It ships with the GNOME 51.1 desktop. Most people meet GNOME through distributions such as …

FortProof is a free, open-source engine that judges every security control from evidence of what actually ran, never from what was…

A security patch can neutralize a vulnerability while simultaneously exposing a direct path to the next exploit. Recently, cybersecurity firm Terra Security investigated how security patches becam…

The open-source project cURL announced a significant restructuring of its triage workflow. Starting October 26, 2026, researchers must submit low and medium severity vulnerability reports directly…

Discovery got industrialized. Remediation didn’t.

A task-fit shortlist for binary reversing, source-led bounty work, and authorized API testing. I read the linked SKILL.md files; I have not…

A missing origin check in Storybook’s preview transport allowed a malicious website to send crafted messages to a running Storybook…

The free service can find vulnerabilities and suggest patches, but enrolled projects must be ready to validate the results themselves.

An Old Quarrel Returns The Document Foundation, the developer behind the open-source office suite LibreOffice, has published a retrospective on the history of the OOXML format. The essay covers th…

A security scanner can tell you that something looks suspicious.

October 2026 was a rough month for anyone who patches things for a living. In a few weeks we got two perfect-10 GitLab bugs, critical RCEs…

Paying someone for a merged pull request should take one line, not a week of spreadsheets, invoices and wallet hand-offs. That is the idea…