OPEN SOURCE
DHS: Warns on Cyber Risks of Open Source. The Department of Homeland Security has suggested striking significant passages from a draft White House policy on open software out of concern that baring too much source code will increase the government’s vulnerability to hacking. Read the rest
[FCW.COM]
ENTERPRISE APPS: Open Source Code is Common, Potentially Dangerous, in Enterprise Apps. The Open Source Vulnerability Database shut down this week posed yet another security challenge for developers who routinely inject massive amounts of free off-the-shelf code into new software. As the name suggests, OSVD was a resource where non-commercial developers could look – free – for patches to known vulnerabilities. Without it, other vulnerability repositories remain, but its closure points up one of the problems with how open source code is used, particularly in enterprise development: often once it’s incorporated into apps, it might never be updated to fix vulnerabilities that are discovered later. Read more
[NETWORKWORLD.COM]
NEW BROWSER: The Young Vivaldi Browser is Taking Its Cues from the Community. Vivaldi is a new browser, powered by libraries from more than 100 different open source projects, and growing in popularity. Here’s an interview with Ruarí Ødegaard, a QA engineer for Vivaldi, the company behind the browser, which was created by the former CEO and co-founder of Opera, Jon von Tetzchner. Read more
[OPENSOURCE.COM]
GOOGLE: Google Open Source Hybrid Cloud Gets New OpenStack Backup Driver. The Cinder driver, which allows Google Cloud Platform to be used as a backup target by OpenStack, is an important addition to the company’s hybrid cloud. Read more
[INFOWORLD.COM]
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