The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a US nonprofit that promotes and provides legal support for free and open source ...

GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks that has ...

Microsoft Corp. is expanding a source-code sharing program for its Windows CE mobile operating system and giving users and software developers the ability to alter the code, provided that they do so ...

GitHub's source code is allegedly on sale online. Hackers claim that they will release it for free if they don't find a buyer ...

Microsoft is also in serious talks to extend the Shared Source Initiative program to ISVs. In an interview with CRN, Microsoft Shared Source Product Manager Jason Matusow said expanding source code ...

Open Invention Network (OIN), the only organization dedicated to mitigating patent risk in open source software (OSS), today announced the preservation of the source code that makes up OIN 2.0’s Linux ...

Trellix, the cybersecurity firm born from the 2022 merger of McAfee Enterprise and FireEye, confirmed in May 2026 that an unauthorized party accessed a portion of its internal source code repository.

The release was not spontaneous, nor was it a leak, as the IRS had already been considering releasing the code as a way to demonstrate a commitment to public trust and enable independent assessment of ...

Done right, openness creates a stronger business structure and a larger surface area for value creation than closed software.

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer program without copying that program’s copyright-protected code directly.