Google Funds Two Full-Time Linux Security Developers
To help Linux maintainers stay ahead of the black hats, Google has funded two full-time Linux security developers.
Linux is becoming more secure.
Google and the Linux Foundation recently announced that Google will fund two full-time Linux security developers to focus entirely on securing the kernel.
There's always room for Linux security
improvements – especially with a project that currently weighs-in at close to 29 million lines of code, meaning there's plenty of room for mistakes. Since Linux is open source, the code is also freely available for everyone to see, even bad actors looking for vulnerabilities to exploit.