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EC looking for organiser of open source bug-bounty
Only ten days left to submit an expression of interest The European Commission is looking for companies with experience in organising bug-bounties. The EC wants to run a small-scale bug bounty on…
NEWSCreated: 06/07/2017Updated Date: 06/07/2017
European Parliament: EUR 1.9M for EU-FOSSA follow-up
The European Parliament today approved a EUR 1.9 million budget for the follow-up to the European Commission’s ‘EU Free and Open Source Software Auditing’ project (EU-FOSSA). The next version of the…
NEWSCreated: 01/12/2016Updated Date: 01/12/2016
European Parliament increases budget for EU-Fossa
On Wednesday, the European Parliament agreed to a follow-up to the European Commission’s ‘EU Free and Open Source Software Auditing’ project (EU-Fossa). The plan for the next phase is included in the…
NEWSCreated: 29/10/2016Updated Date: 29/10/2016
EU-Fossa project submits results of code audits
Tests did not reveal any critical vulnerabilities The European Commission’s ‘EU Free and Open Source Software Auditing’ project (EU-Fossa) has sent its code review results to the developers of the…
NEWSCreated: 23/10/2016Updated Date: 23/10/2016
Study: ‘Open source coders more aware of security’
European institutions should use available security tools more often Developers of open source software are generally more aware of code security issues than developers working for the European…
NEWSCreated: 14/10/2016Updated Date: 14/10/2016
Study: open source groups take security seriously
‘Each community is a different planet’ - authors warn The IT security practices of some open source communities are exemplary, according to a study for the European Commission and European…
NEWSCreated: 06/10/2016Updated Date: 06/10/2016
Commission makes a list of its open source solutions
The European Commission is about to make a public inventory of the open source solutions that it uses. A methodology for creating the inventory has just been accepted by the EC’s Directorate-General…
NEWSCreated: 19/09/2016Updated Date: 19/09/2016
EU-Fossa publishes core sections of its deliverables
To promote the exchange of comments made by the Free and Open Source Software communities, the EU-Fossa project points out some specific sections of the deliverables he produced so far. By consulting…
NEWSCreated: 12/09/2016Updated Date: 12/09/2016
EU-FOSSA KeePass code review: Call for contribution!
As already announced the KeePass tool has been selected to be code reviewed by the FOSSA pilot project for potential security problems. Now that the code review is about to start, we would like to…
NEWSCreated: 19/08/2016Updated Date: 19/08/2016
EU-FOSSA starts its code review projects
The European Commission EU-FOSSA project runs its Apache code review project and is about to start the KeePass one. As announced in a previous news (see link), Apache and KeePass have been selected…
NEWSCreated: 12/08/2016Updated Date: 12/08/2016
EC to audit Apache HTTP Server and Keepass
EU-FOSSA Survey received over 3000 comments The European Commission is preparing a software source code security audit on two software solutions, Apache HTTP server and Keepass, a password manager…
NEWSCreated: 20/07/2016Updated Date: 20/07/2016
Removing Barriers to the Uptake of Open Source Software - Open Source Public Sector Procurement Service - "Software Custodian as a Service"
Please see idea proposal here to aid adoption to professional re-usable software at: http://ow.ly/xk7M301ooji Public sector procurement organisations such as Crown Commercial Services in the UK are…
NEWSCreated: 18/06/2016Updated Date: 18/06/2016