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/PRNewswire/ -- KubeCon – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced it has raised $10...
/PRNewswire/ -- Spectral, the developer-first cybersecurity company, announced they have become contributors to the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)....
The massive 2017 Equifax hack was done in part by exploiting a critical (though patched) web server vulnerability in Apache Struts, a common and popular form of open source software to creating Java applications. (Equifax) Cybersecurity startup WhiteSource announced it has raised $75 million in Series D funding, highlighting how tech and security investors are increasingly focusing on the open source software security market. The latest investment of $75 million, drawn mostly from Pitango Growth and existing investors M12, Susquehanna Growth Equity, and 83North, is significantly more than the...
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...
PHOTO: James Sutton If, as we have seen recently, many organizations are warming to the idea of open source technology, the change in attitudes can most likely be attributed to the productivity advantages of using open source applications enterprise-wide, or even across small teams. Competitive Advantage The result is that that use of open source can only grow in the future, according to Cory Hulen, CTO and co-founder of Palo Alto, Calif.-based open core platform Mattermost. Companies like Kong and Gitlab represent a wave of organizations with open source foundations carving out enterprise ...