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Companies advised to have Zero-day attacks prevention plans
Google provides funding for development of OpenSSL alternative Apr 20, 2021 11:00 EDT with 1 comment The Internet Security Research Group has announced that Google has provided funding for Rust developer Dirkjan Ochtman to make improvements to Rustls, a memory-safe alternative to OpenSSL. This funding is linked to the news we reported back in February that the ISRG will be making Apache HTTP Server’s implementation of httpd more secure by using Rustls in its components. According to ISRG, many SSL/TLS libraries have a long history of security issues due to them b...
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 fr...
Linux Foundation Announces Free sigstore Signing Service to Confirm Origin and Authenticity of Software Red Hat, Google and Purdue University lead efforts to ensure software maintainers, distributors and consumers have full confidence in their code, artifacts and tooling News provided by Share this article Share this article SAN FRANCISCO, March 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the sigstore project. sigstore improves the security of the software supply chain by enabling the easy adoption of ...
The Linux Foundation, the non-profit organization enabling innovation through open source, has announced a new service to improve the security of the software supply chain by enabling the easy adoption of cryptographic software signing.