EU to fund bug bounty program for top open-source software
The European Union will help cover the expenses of bug bounty programs for 14 open-source projects according to an announcement made by EU Member of Parliament Julia Reda. The projects that will receive funding for their bug bounty programs are 7-zip, Apache Kafka, Apache Tomcat, Digital Signature Services (DSS), Drupal, Filezilla, FLUX TL, the GNU C Library (glibc), KeePass, midPoint, Notepad++, PuTTY, the Symfony PHP framework, VLC Media Player and WSO2. The bug bounty programs are being sponsored as part of the third edition of the Free and Open Source Software Audit (FOSSA) project. FOSSA was first approved by EU authorities back in 2015 when security researchers discovered severe vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL library a year earlier. Third edition of FOSSA In her announcement , Julia Reda highlighted the importance of free and open-source software, saying: "The issue made lots of people realise how important Free and Open Source Software is for the integrity and reliabi...