RE: DHS helping to secure open source code

["Craddock, Larry" <l_craddock () wfec com>]

"US-CERT's (United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team) 2005 year-end
vulnerability statistics found a startling increase in flaws in Unix/Linux
operating systems. The controversial data revealed 812 flaws in Windows,
compared with 2,328 vulnerabilities in various Unix/Linux packages. "

Looks to me like the reason the DHS is funding the project is because they
*do* have some doubts.


Larry Craddock
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Saqib Ali [mailto:docbook.xml () gmail com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 6:00 PM
To: Security-Basics (E-mail)
Subject: DHS helping to secure open source code

For people who doubt the secure coding practices in open source projects:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/01/dhs_funding_ope.html
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1909946,00.asp
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6025579.html

DHS is funding the security analysis of the source-code for the following
OpenSource applications:

Apache, BIND, Ethereal, KDE, Linux, Firefox, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OpenSSL and
MySQL

--
Saqib Ali, CISSP
http://www.xml-dev.com/blog/
"I fear, if I rebel against my Lord, the retribution of an Awful Day (The Day
of Resurrection)" Al-Quran 6:15

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