Observed arrival · 2026-08-25

Hound, the Linux Endpoint Watchdog

houndes.com Observed source

Editorial interest 79/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

An open-source Linux security agent combining supply-chain detection, malware blocking, vulnerability scanning, file-integrity monitoring, USB control, and EDR telemetry.

Landing page captured for the 2026-08-25 issue.

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The project describes one Linux agent spanning pre-installation dependency checks, execution-time blocking, vulnerability scanning, file-integrity monitoring, USB control, and EDR telemetry. Its supply-chain coverage names npm, PyPI, RubyGems, crates.io, Go, and Packagist, while the execution layer uses fanotify to intervene at execve. The page cites 235,577 malicious indicators and claims approximately 2 ms to stop a malicious binary, alongside 0.8 ms of overhead for other programs.

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