The European Union will foot the bill for bug bounty programs for 14 open source projects, EU Member of Parliament Julia Reda announced this week.
The 14 projects are, in alphabetical order, 7-zip, Apache Kafka, Apache Tomcat, Digital Signature Services (DSS), Drupal, Filezilla, FLUX TL, the GNU C Library (glibc), KeePass, midPoint, Notepad++, PuTTY, the Symfony PHP framework, VLC Media Player, and WSO2.
The bug bounty programs are being sponsored as part of the third edition of the Free and Open Source Software Audit (FOSSA) project.
EU authorities first approved FOSSA in 2015, after security researchers discovered a year earlier severe vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL library, an open source project used by many websites to support HTTPS connections.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday December 31 2018, @07:23AM
What is supposed to be the problem here?
Oh yea, you're Salty Spice, right? Even the PHB can figure out that there's a difference between software that he reads about in the papers and an icon on his desktop. Somebody has to put it there, and it's not going to be him.