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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 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
Life cycle support also a priority for open source
Similarities between open source projects and public administrations Open source software development projects and public administrations have similar concerns about software support. The two also…
NEWSCreated: 16/06/2016Updated Date: 16/06/2016