Google Starts OS Security Group
May 15, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Open Source Software
From the Help from Above dept.:
Google is spearheading a volunteer workforce it hopes will become the centralized authority for responding to security issues in open source software.
oCERT, short for the open source computer emergency response team, will aim to remediate security vulnerabilities and exploits in a wide range of open source programs by coordinating communication among publishers. According to Google's security blog, the group "will strive to contact software authors with all security reports and aid in debugging and patching, especially in cases where the author, or the reporter, doesn't have a background in security."
Google is spearheading a volunteer workforce it hopes will become the centralized authority for responding to security issues in open source software.
oCERT, short for the open source computer emergency response team, will aim to remediate security vulnerabilities and exploits in a wide range of open source programs by coordinating communication among publishers. According to Google's security blog, the group "will strive to contact software authors with all security reports and aid in debugging and patching, especially in cases where the author, or the reporter, doesn't have a background in security."
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