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EU To Fund Bug Bounty Programs For Some Open-Source Projects

posted by takyon on Sunday December 30 2018, @07:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the euro-signs-for-eyes dept.

janrinok writes:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by Pav on Tuesday January 01 2019, @12:33AM

    by Pav (114) on Tuesday January 01 2019, @12:33AM (#780450)

    Do you work in I.T?

    Commercial providers (unless they have a ready fix) ALWAYS DENY a problem is known, or that anyone else is having the same problem... it's INDUSTRY PRACTICE! I've even been gaslighted in this way EVEN WHEN I'd spoken to other customers who had confirmed the problem (and also said they'd been given the same runaround by technical support). Free Software people are easy to deal with in comparison, and if there are no resources to quickly deal with a simple problem one can deal with it oneself.

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