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Google Santa Brings Open-Source Security

Nov 26, 2014
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Over the past few weeks Google has released multiple security tools and open source efforts to help end-users and organizations defend themselves from modern threats.

One of the most recent tools released by Google is called Santa (yeah, that Santa), which is a Mac OS X security tool.

“Santa is named because it keeps track of binaries that are naughty and nice,” states Google’s Github page on Santa.

Read the full story at eSecurityPlanet:
Google Brings Open Source Security Gifts

Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.

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