Homeland Security helps secure open-source code
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List of Open source software targeted: AbiWord Apache Berkeley DB BIND Ethereal Firebird Mozilla Firefox FreeBSD Gaim GIMP Gtk+ Icecast Inetutils KDE Linux MPlayer MySQL OpenBSD OpenLDAP OpenSSH OpenSSL OpenVPN ProFTPd QT toolkit Samba Squid Tcl Tk wxGtk xine XMMS Xpdf The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has dedicated $1.24 million in funding in its effort to protect open-source software. Stanford University, Coverity and Symantec have all taken up the challenge to perform daily scans of code, hunting for security bugs. An automated syst
List of Open source software targeted:
AbiWord
Apache
Berkeley DB
BIND
Ethereal
Firebird
Mozilla Firefox
FreeBSD
Gaim
GIMP
Gtk+
Icecast
Inetutils
KDE
Linux
MPlayer
MySQL
OpenBSD
OpenLDAP
OpenSSH
OpenSSL
OpenVPN
ProFTPd
QT toolkit
Samba
Squid
Tcl
Tk
wxGtk
xine
XMMS
Xpdf
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has dedicated $1.24 million in funding in its effort to protect open-source software. Stanford University, Coverity and Symantec have all taken up the challenge to perform daily scans of code, hunting for security bugs. An automated system to achieve this search will be in place by March '06.
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