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Open source bugs have soared in the past year
Open source bugs have skyrocketed, according to a report from WhiteSource, with XSS flaws account for a quarter of those bugs.
61 impacted versions of Apache Struts left off security advisories
Researchers found that 24 security advisories inaccurately listed affected versions for the open-source development framework.
FileZilla fixes show how far we’ve come since Heartbleed
What have seven security fixes in FileZilla got to do with 2014’s Heartbleed bug?
Cryptocurrency attack thwarted by npm team
Cryptocurrency users narrowly escaped losing all their funds last week after an attacker poisoned a digital wallet with malicious code that stole their blockchain access details.
Bootstrap supply chain attack is another attempt to poison the barrel
Somebody smuggled something bad into the vast third-party, open-source supply chain we all depend upon.
Windows Calculator is going open source
Can the combined power of the world’s developers possibly improve the iconic Windows Calculator app? Microsoft seems to think so.
NSA might shut down phone snooping program, whatever that means
We’ve heard this tale before. This time, it was mentioned by a congressional aide. Also, the NSA released Ghidra, a free reverse-engineering tool.
EU to offer nearly $1m in bug bounties for open-source software
Rewards on 15 bug bounty programs start at $28,600 and include open source software such as KeePass, FileZilla, Drupal and VLC media player.
Microsoft’s gutting Edge and stuffing it with Chromium
Edge joins Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, Yandex, and Brave. Better for web compatibility, but if one thing breaks, they all break.