Security News

Open Source Vulnerability Database Opens Vendor Dictionary
2004-09-01 17:22

Forwarded from: Jake Open Source Vulnerability Database Opens Vendor Dictionary The Open Source Vulnerability Database, a project to catalog and describe the world's security vulnerabilities, has...

Defense Department Issues Open Source Policy
2003-06-04 07:36

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/2216311 By Thor Olavsrud June 3, 2003 The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) last week distributed a memo putting open source software on a level...

Crackers target open source software websites
2001-05-31 07:11

http://it.mycareer.com.au/breaking/2001/05/31/FFXQ0QREDNC.html Thursday 31 May, 2001 By BARRY PARK FAIRFAX IT Open source software portal Sourceforge has published details of the server compromise...