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U.S. Department of Homeland Security helps secure open-source code
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Khairil Yusof
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2006-01-12 01:04 PM
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is extending the scope of its protection to open-source software.
Through its Science and Technology Directorate, the department has
given $1.24 million in funding to Stanford University, Coverity and
Symantec to hunt for security bugs in open-source software and to
improve Coverity's commercial tool for source code analysis,
representatives for the three grant recipients told CNET News.com.
In the effort, which the government agency calls the "Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation, Open Source Hardening Project," Stanford and Coverity will build and maintain a system that does daily scans of code contributed to popular open-source projects. The automated system should be running by March, and the resulting database of bugs will be accessible to developers, they said.
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In the effort, which the government agency calls the "Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation, Open Source Hardening Project," Stanford and Coverity will build and maintain a system that does daily scans of code contributed to popular open-source projects. The automated system should be running by March, and the resulting database of bugs will be accessible to developers, they said.
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Source: News.com
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