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SourceForge has added a feature that gives project websites the opportunity to opt-in to using SSL HTTPS encryption. Project admins can find this option in the Admin page under “HTTPS.”

In case you don’t know, Internet of Things security sucks so much it appears as if the IoT folks have taken a time machine back to 1998 to implement Microsoft’s best practices of that era.

Those with open source DevOps skills will soon have a new tool to help them get past the gatekeepers in HR offices. The Linux Professional Institute has announced it has plans to offer an "OT DevOps Engineer" certification. When released next fall, the program will "test proficiency in the most relevant free and open sources tools used to implement the DevOps collaboration model, like, for example, automated configuration or container virtualization."

Muni, San Francisco's transit system, is back to normal after being hit by hackers who reportedly sought a $73,000 ransom.

Also included: FBI hacks 8,000 with single warrant, new Cinnamon desktop release, "government-backed attackers" after journalists and FOSS Force adds beef to newsfeed.

An investigative team for a Seattle television station found finding malware on clean computers to be an everyday practice at Office Depot.

Linux and open source used to be 99% secure -- or so we thought. We laughed at the poor, hapless users of Windows, an OS that seemed to suffer a new exploit hourly. We were smug and thought ourselves protected by Linux's superior design, with security built-in and not added as an afterthought. Most of all, we thought ourselves protected by the thousand upon thousands of eyes that were pouring over the code and making sure that any vulnerabilities that snuck through were caught by the white hats long before the black hats had a clue.

Hell has evidently frozen over. This morning at Microsoft's Connect event in New York City, the company announced that it has joined the Linux Foundation as a top level platimum member. What's more, the foundation's executive director, Jim Zemlin, is greeting the company with open arms.

The truth is, there's much more that we don't know about the incoming administration's planned policies than we do know. It's a certainty, however, that this will be no normal presidency and that change will be in the works across nearly all industries, including tech. We also know that the signs aren't particularly auspicious for the tech sector right now.

After only eight months on the job, Wim Coekaerts, affectionately known to some as Mr. Linux, has left Microsoft to return to his old haunt, that being Oracle.

Finding and keeping women and other minorities has been a problem in tech. The recent appointment of Nithya Ruff as an at-large director on the Linux Foundation's board should have a positive effect, even outside open source.

Mitchell Hashimoto talks about about how new technologies lead to the tool sets used to make them easier to master.

Those using Linux to register for a Linux Foundation webinar are told to try using Windows or OS X instead.

The building and nurturing of community is more important to software development than you might think.

Linux and open source has a friend in the "Great White North," and we don't mean one of the McKenzie brothers. As an MP, this friend works to bring awareness of open source to Ottawa as he serves the interests of the people of his district in Quebec.

How Walmart leveraged open source to build the infrastructure for the world's second largest online e-commerce site.

IT Pro had a conversation with Scott Hanselman, who gave a keynote address on Thursday at All Things Open, as well as an afternoon presentation on .NET Core. We talked about Microsoft's approach to open source.

All appearances are that Microsoft is no longer an outsider within the enterprise open source community, but a full-fledged citizen.

HashiCorp's Mitchell Hashimoto tells IT Pro how he got started in software, about the acceptance of open source by the enterprise, and why he recently changed hats from CEO to CTO at the company he founded.