FoxScan · Cybersecurity News
usama R. — Cybersecurity | Web Application Penetration Tester | Vulnerability Assessment | OWASP Top 10 | Burp Suite Professional
Reshared from a post by Samuele S.
I've been working on a personal project called Foxscan 🦊, and I wanted to share it with the cybersecurity community and get some feedback.
The idea came from a problem I kept running into: different news outlets covering the same cybersecurity incident, each reporting different details. Information is often fragmented, and it takes time to piece everything together and figure out what's actually relevant or reliable.
So I built Foxscan, an automated cybersecurity news platform available in both English and Italian.
How it works:
- 🔎 News aggregation: Monitors multiple cybersecurity news sources and combines articles covering the same incident into a single, more complete report, bringing together details from different publications.
- 🏷 Categorization: Summarizes key information and organizes news into categories like AI Security, ransomware, vulnerabilities, data breaches, phishing, and more.
- 🚨 Severity classification: Automatically assigns a severity level to each story, highlighting the most critical incidents on the homepage.
- 📱 Social media & RSS: Automatically creates Instagram carousels for major stories and provides an RSS feed for anyone who prefers following news through their own reader.
- 🔐 Security: I also focused on securing the platform itself, including admin access protection, API rate limiting, and URL validation for externally fetched content.
One of the biggest challenges? Keeping everything free.
This is a non-profit personal project built mainly for learning and sharing cybersecurity news. I wanted to see how far I could push automation while keeping the platform running without recurring service costs, using hardware I already own and free hosting/service tiers.
It's still a project I'm improving, so I'd really appreciate feedback, especially on the aggregation approach, severity classification, and overall usefulness.
🔗 Check it out: https://foxscan.vercel.app
Let me know what you think, or what you'd improve!
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