Facebook Launches Pysa – Instagram Security Tool – As Open Source

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Facebook released its internally-developed Pysa security tool. Based on the open-source code of Pyre project, Facebook designed Pysa as a static code analyzer. The tool specifically looks for security bugs, unlike most other analyzers. Facebook decided to opensource the tool after witnessing its success in security Instagram. The tech giant’s internal team used the tool for identifying various bugs. Sharing the details of the tool in a post, Facebook stated,

 

 

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