A group dedicated to averting another Heartbleed-style vulnerability is narrowing down a list of critical open source projects that will receive its funding and support.
Jeremy Kirk | 10 Feb | Read more
That software-defined networking (SDN) is a coming reality is starting to gain traction in IT security circles, with some vendors arguing it could lead to a level of interoperability in security largely missing at present.
Ellen Messmer | 30 Aug | Read more
The Linux Foundation today announced the first protocols that it wants to address as part of its open-source code testing and security review. Not surprisingly, OpenSSL, where the infamous Heartbleed bug was discovered, is among them.
Ellen Messmer | 30 May | Read more
A number of Linux websites, including LinuxFoundation.org and Linux.com, have been pulled offline after a security breach.
Anh Nguyen | 13 Sep | Read more
If there's a poster child for the challenges facing open source security, it may be Werner Koch, the German developer who wrote and for the last 18 years has toiled to maintain Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG), a pillar of the open source software ecosystem.
Paul Roberts | 26 Mar | Read more