Explore Phishing Threats and Open Source Tools for Defense

Dec 19, 2022 •

1 - 2 min read

Happy Monday fellow Linux geeks and Open Source enthusiasts! In this week's newsletter, we cover a new large-scale phishing campaign that has flooded open-source repositories with 144,000 malicious packages. Learn about this attack, so you are better equipped to defend against it and future threats!

In addition, we explain why you can't afford to delay getting started with open source log analytics and monitoring, and introduce several tools that can gather data from server logs, app performance/network traffic monitors, etc. You don't want to miss this information!

Finally, we discuss what you should prioritize in an open-source deception tool and introduce some excellent open-source honeypots you can use to detect threats for free.

Hope you enjoy!

Yours in Open Source,

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