Security News > 2022 > January > EU launches bug bounty programs for five open source solutions

The European Union is, once again, calling on bug hunters to delve into specific open source software and report bugs.

"One criteria in selecting bug bounties was their use within European public services," the European Commission Open Source Programme Office explained.

The bug bounties have been launched via the Intigriti bug bounty platform and the EC OSPO is providing a bounty fund of €200,000.

This is not the first time that the EU is offering bounties for bugs found in popular open source solutions.

The initial FOSSA project was extended for several years, and bug bounty programs for VLC Media Player and 14 other open source software were set up and several hackatons were carried out.

In January 2021, the UE Commission's ISA² program launched three more open source bug bounty programs, focused on IM platform Element, eLearning platform Moodle and email server solution Zimbra.

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