Maintaining EOL Open Source with Commonhaus and HeroDevs
Open Source Security
Josh chats with Erin Schnabel and Rob Nalen about a new effort from Commonhaus and HeroDevs for maintaining end of life open source. This project, the Open Source Sustainability Initiative is a clever way to bring corporations and projects together for maintenance of new and old versions of open source projects. This is pretty new territory for everyone, this project is worth keeping an eye on because it has a very small scope initially. Other similar ideas have gigantic scopes that are almost certainly too large. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at
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Cleanup, Speedup, Levelup open source at e18e
Open Source Security
Josh chats with James from e18e. This is a project that is working on improving Javascript packages by cleaning up, speeding up, and leveling up the dependencies. The way the e18e project handles this work is very human open source. It's all about building up connections and trust with the package communities, which is no small effort. James fills us in on what they're doing as well as how we can get involved. It's a truly amazing effort The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at
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VulnCheck's State of Exploitation Report with Patrick Garrity
Open Source Security
Josh chats with Patrick Garrity about the VulnCheck State of Exploitation 1H-2026 report. Patrick explains the current trends we are seeing around vulnerabilities right now. While the number of CVEs is way up, the number of actually exploited vulnerabilities isn't growing year over year. This tells us there is a lot of FUD and hype. We also ask where are all the vulnerabilities that project Glasswing found. They should be going public by now, but we're not seeing that play out in the data. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at
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Securing critical infrastructure with Josh Corman
Open Source Security
Open Source Security welcomes Josh Corman to talk about the challenges around securing our critical infrastructure. Specifically the discussion centers around our water supplies. There are a lot of really wild things happening right now with attacks like Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon. Josh has an amazing ability to make these sort of discussions easy to understand without spreading FUD. Josh also has suggestions for actions that need to be taken to help deal with these problems. It's not all technical solutions, there are non technical things we can do to help reduce the risk posed by our...
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Abandoned open source with Josh Marpet
Open Source Security
Josh welcomes Josh Marpet for a discussion about abandoned open source packages. Josh Marpet has a foundation called Value Chain Risk Institute that has a report discussion how to start measuring if an open source package might be abandoned. There's a lot of data, but not a lot of groups using that data to help make informed decisions about using open source. VCRI is one of those places that's starting to do this. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at
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Red Hat's Project Lightwell with Mo Duffy
Open Source Security
Josh welcomes Mo Duffy from Red Hat to chat about project Lightwell. The idea is to leverage the resources and understanding Red Hat has built up over the years to help deal with the deluge of vulnerability reports that are overwhelming open source projects. Mo does a really good job of explaining why this is fundamentally a people problem, not a technology problem. But it's a people problem we can probably use technology to help. It will be interesting to see where Lightwell goes in the next few years. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at...
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Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund with Lori and Niko
Open Source Security
Josh chats with Lori Lorusso and Niko Matsakis about the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund. This is a new project the Rust Foundation has create to help fund Rust maintainers. It's a great discussion where Lori and Niko cover all the ways they expect to fund the maintainers which is never as easy as one initially expects. Funding open source is a huge topic right now, it sounds like the Rust Foundation has some great ideas. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at
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AIBOM, CBOM, and HBOM with Allan Friedman
Open Source Security
Josh chats with Allan Friedman about all things Bill of Materials. Allan did a ton of work to help turn SBOM into what it is today. He has many thoughts and ideas around the new types of BOMs, a concept he's calling the OmniBOM. Allan is always fun to chat with and he brings a ton of knowledge and advice. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at
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Packagist and Composer security with Jordi Boggiano
Open Source Security
Josh welcomes Jordi Boggiano the lead maintainer of Composer and Packagist to explain the truckload of security features they've recently added. Packagist is the PHP package registry, Composer is the dependency manager for PHP. Recently the people behind these projects have added a number of security features that will improve the security of the entire ecosystem. Jordi explains it all to us and gives a glimpse of what's coming next. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at
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Sustaining Open VSX with Mike and Thabang
Open Source Security
Josh welcomes Mike Milinkovich and Thabang Mashologu from the Eclipse Foundation to talk about their new managed Open VSX registry. This is the first open source package registry to create a commercial operation for large company users to help fund the registry. We discuss how we got here, what's actually going on, and why this commercial approach is working. Everyone knew this day would come, and it looks like the Eclipse Foundation got this one right. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at
info_outlineWilliam Brown is back! This time Josh chats with him about Passkeys. WTF are they? A Passkey is a form of multi factor authentication, but it's not super obvious what that really means. William does a fantastic job explaining what a Passkey is, how we got to where we are today with Passkeys. He shares a ton of explanations about the whole world of authentication along the way. Some of this stuff is basically magic.
The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at
https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-01-passkey-william-brown/