lunasec
ossdatabase
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36 | 9 | |
1,406 | 30 | |
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5.5 | 6.0 | |
3 months ago | 2 months ago | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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lunasec
- Guys, I taught ChatGPT to browse the internet and it is bloody amazing.
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Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
LunaTrace: https://lunatrace.lunasec.io/
Premise: Open Source[0] alternative to GitHub Dependabot and `npm audit` that focuses on helping you prioritize where to patching first (only 0.1% of CVEs are used in cyber attacks).
Short YouTube demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugdSyR2L6sY
A newer video showing off the whole Static Analysis engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPd4MSUJ98M
Price: $0 for Open Source repos. We're hoping to charge for private repos in the future, but we need to build out the billing features first lol. (We're at $0 in revenue currently.)
If you are filled with rage because of CVEs spamming you, come vent your frustrations on Discord: https://discord.gg/2EbHdAR5w7
We're looking for early customers that are interested in working with us. My email is on my profile. Cheers!
[0]: Source Code, https://github.com/lunasec-io/lunasec/
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Log4Shell Still Has Sting in the Tail
(Note: I'm the person that coined the term "Log4Shell")
You may be surprised when I tell you what the Apache Software foundations yearly budget is. You'd think for software that is used by practically every Fortune 500 company and most governments, it would be something reasonable. Maybe a few hundred million dollars a year to pay for a reasonable full-time staff, right?
It turns out... it's about $2 million a year. (Wikipedia[0])
This helps explain to me why the devs of Log4j directly uploaded the file "JNDIExploit.java" (the POC) to GitHub while they were patching. (Here is a full analysis and guide about how to prevent that[1].)
They're not security people. They're volunteers working on this in addition to their full-time job.
What kind of brave soul wants to trudge through and maintain log4j in their spare time for zero compensation? I appreciate the people that are capable of doing that, but I think they are rare!
This whole entire vulnerability was eye opening for everybody and I have actually spent the last year building tooling on GitHub to help fix the problems that Log4Shell exposed.
If you have 2 seconds to try that out or just Star the repo[2], it would be very helpful!
0: Log4j revenue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apache_Software_Foundation
1: "How to Discuss and Fix Vulnerabilities in Open Source" https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/how-to-mitigate-open-source...
2: GitHub project building better dependency patching tools https://github.com/lunasec-io/lunasec
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Malicious Python Packages Replace Crypto Addresses in Developer Clipboards
If anybody is curious to replicate this type of analysis, we should connect because I've been working a project to build an engine for this type of analysis for about a year now. GitHub Repo
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Dozens of malicious PyPI packages discovered targeting developers
It is possible to set your registry in NPM via the "npmrc" file. That will let you hit the specified HTTP server whenever you run commands like "npm install".
I know this is also possible for Python because we did it at Uber. I don't remember the specific details anymore though.
In either case though, a lot of people have written proxies for this use case (I helped write one for NPM at Uber). Companies like Bytesafe and Artifactory also exist in this space.
We're working on something similar that's on GitHub here: https://github.com/lunasec-io/lunasec
Proxy support isn't built out yet but the data is all there already.
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Preventing the bait and switch by open core software companies
The current system is broken. I don't think I agree with everything in the post, but I'm excited to see movement in this space given that this is a space I spend a lot of time thinking about. (I'll expand on that below)
Even if I disagree with parts of this, this is still one of the most interesting things that I've read around OSS licensing in a minute! Having actual VC money behind this movement is awesome.
For context: I run an Open Source company that's YC + VC-backed. We use are using a hybrid of Apache and Business Source License (BSL, a "non-compete" license that converts to Apache in 2-3 years). Our license file[0] has context about my thought process around this, but I still am not totally happy with it. (BSL isn't an "OSI-Compatible", even if it does feel like the "best" license currently.)
To come to that conclusion, I've read both Heather Meeker's book, "Open (Source) for Business"[1], multiple times now and I've also blogged about this topic[2] before.
All of that is to say, it's complicated and there are some perverse incentives that can prevent you from always "doing the right thing".
Problem #1: You lose control. You may begin with Apache but, as OP states, you eventually end up with the incentive to "rug pull" by switching the license because of market forces/VC influence. (I'm the founder of my company and I would resist it, but eventually our investors might control the board and make that happen anyway by replacing me.)
Problem #2: The hardest part of building a company is getting traction. Just getting anybody to care about you takes a ton of effort and having a permissive license makes it way easier to get that early adoption. And, by the time you have adoption and you decide to go raise VC money, you now end up with Problem #1.
Problem #3: If you start with a copyleft license like GPL/AGPL, then you make Problem #2 harder. Many companies simply won't adopt your software if you're using that. (Linux is a notable exception here, but even companies using AGPL like MongoDB have switched away from copyleft.)
We are using BSL because it feels like the best compromise (it becomes Apache 2.0 eventually). I do still think a lot about switching to Apache though. I just really hate the idea of "rug pulling" and I'd rather be honest from the beginning with a license like BSL, even if it is more difficult to get that initial momentum.
Does anybody else have thoughts to share about this?
0: https://github.com/lunasec-io/lunasec/blob/master/LICENSE.md
1: Open (Source) for Business: A Practical Guide to Open Source Software Licensing - Third Edition https://a.co/8SLjVZI
2: https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/how-to-build-an-open-source...
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Ignore 98% of dependency alerts: introducing Semgrep Supply Chain
Here is some code on GitHub that does call site checking using SemGrep: https://github.com/lunasec-io/lunasec/blob/master/lunatrace/...
(Note: I helped write that. We're building a similar service to the r2c one.)
You're right that patching is hard because of opaque package diffs. I've seen some tools coming out like Socket.dev which show a diff between versions. https://socket.dev/npm/package/react/versions
But, that said, this is still a hard problem to solve and it's happened before that malware[0][1] has been silently shipped because of how opaque packages are.
0: https://web.archive.org/web/20201221173112/https://github.co...
1: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2018/11/27/fake-developer-s...
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Ask HN: How do you deploy your weekend project in 2022?
https://github.com/lunasec-io/lunasec/blob/master/lunatrace/...
It's more complicated now but if you look at the history of that "backend-cdk" folder then it's simpler a few months ago.
The important bit is the "ecs-patterns" library. That's the one that is magical and deals with setting up the load balancer, cluster, etc for you. And the way we shove the Docker images in I found to be quite straightforward. (And deploys are one line)
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Cdk8s: CNCF-Backed Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for Kubernetes
I saw this last night while trying to setup Flux on EKS. I wanted to share this and see what other tools people are using too.
Is it possible for Kubernetes to be startup-friendly? (We're using ECS right now via the normal CDK[0]).
0: https://github.com/lunasec-io/lunasec/blob/master/lunatrace/...
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Vulnerability Management for Go
This is really cool to see because this is the #1 problem with current tools (as you said). I call it "alert fatigue" in my head because it's meaningless when you have 100+ vulns to fix but they're 99% unexploitable.
I have a bit of a bone to pick with this space: I've been working on this problem for a few months now (link to repo[0] and blog[1]).
My background is Application Security and, as is often the case with devs, rage fuels me in my desire to fix this space. Log4Shell helped too.
As another comment said, doing this in a language agnostic way is a big PITA and we haven't fully built it yet. We are using SemGrep to do very basic ststic analysis (see if vulnerable function is ever imported + called). But we're not doing fancy Inter-process taint analysis like CodeQL can.
(We have a big Merkle tree that represents the dependency tree and that's how we are able to make the CI/CD check take only a few seconds because we can pre-compute.)
Anyway, if you have a second to help, we have a GitHub App[1] that you can install to test this out + help us find bugs. It's best at NPM now but we have basic support for other languages (no dep te analysis yet).
There are so many edge cases with the ways that repos are setup so just have more scans coming in helps a ton. (Well, it breaks stuff, but we already determined that rage sustains me.)
Thank you. climbs off of soap box
0: https://github.com/lunasec-io/lunasec
1: https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/the-issue-with-vuln-scanner...
2: https://github.com/marketplace/lunatrace-by-lunasec
ossdatabase
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Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
looks like they typo'd, it's https://ossdatabase.com
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2022)
- https://ossdatabase.com : Open source alternatives for popular software, this project itself is Open Source. (https://github.com/prithvi16/ossdatabase) and extensively uses Hotwire.
I have built and launched multiple products from ideation and design to building and marketing them. I have also worked in large and small teams. I like to take ownership of my work end to end and figure things out on my own.
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20+ search engine tools - Google search engine alternatives and other methods for finding things on your computer.
https://ossdatabase.com - is a crowdsourced Open Source software database. Our goal is to make finding open source alternatives and comparing them to proprietary solutions as simple as possible.
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Open Source Alternative To
I have also built something similar at
https://ossdatabase.com
Recently released code under AGPL-3.
But I want to go beyond aggregation and add following things
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How to promote an Open Source project?
I will add your project to https://ossdatabase.com
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Why do you waste so much time on the internet
Sure. Some links I just bookmarked and will use:
https://highbrow.se/ (Alternative search engine)
https://cora-pic.com/en (Meme generator)
https://www.mightyapp.com/ (New upcoming cloud browser)
https://ossdatabase.com/ (Database of OSS)
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A crowdsourced database of Open Source alternatives - OSS Database
Hi! I am the creator of this tool. I saw people collecting Open Source alternatives on Github. Which is awesome btw, but I thought there was a better way to do this. I wanted to build a nice and clean UI and nice filters to filter projects by tech, platform, use case, and license. Following things are planned - User reviews for projects, will be screened for spam.- User-based submissions, and edits for projects. More transparency in moderation.- Karma for users based on edits. - Once I gain enough traction I plan to release the source code under MIT and the collected data in CSV files for everyone to download. - A job board for companies using Open Source tools for monetization. Alternative.to is a good tool, but it doesn't hurt to have alternatives ;). Thanks, u/zicxor for cross-posting here! source code: https://github.com/prithvi16/ossdatabase
What are some alternatives?
immudb - immudb - immutable database based on zero trust, SQL/Key-Value/Document model, tamperproof, data change history
Fetcher - A chrome extension which fetches your favourite feeds, so you don't have to.
apache-log4j-poc - Apache Log4j 远程代码执行
awesome-selfhosted - A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
wazuh-dashboard-plugins - Plugins for Wazuh Dashboard
macOCR - Get any text on your screen into your clipboard.
react-payment-inputs - A React Hook & Container to help with payment card input fields.
windmill - Open-source developer platform to turn scripts into workflows and UIs. Fastest workflow engine (5x vs Airflow). Open-source alternative to Airplane and Retool.
log4shell-tools - Tool that runs a test to check whether one of your applications is affected by the recent vulnerabilities in log4j: CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046
ArchiSteamFarm - C# application with primary purpose of farming Steam cards from multiple accounts simultaneously.
mantine - A fully featured React components library
doesitarm - 🦾 A list of reported app support for Apple Silicon as well as Apple M2 and M1 Ultra Macs