Tag: open source software

Here you will find all the articles with the tag: open source software.

Confidential computing creates enclaves of privacy and security

Confidential computing creates enclaves of privacy and security

Confidential computing is essentially a type of technology that aims to improve data privacy and security. The hardware-based technology works by using encrypted computation on sensitive data, and then isolating that data from host resources. Data, therefore, remains separate from applications and ... Read more

date12 months ago
Google Cloud Assured Open Source Software now available

Google Cloud Assured Open Source Software now available

The OSS service is being offered for free to Java and Python developers. In a move to improve the security of the most widely used open-source software, Google Cloud this week announced that it is making its Assured Open Source Software service generally available for Java and Python ecosystems.... Read more

date1 year ago
Google’s bug bounty rewards program now covers third parties

Google’s bug bounty rewards program now covers third parties

Google introduced a new bug bounty program to pay researchers who find security flaws in its open-source software and the building blocks it uses. As reported by The Verge, Google says it will pay anywhere from $101 to $31,337 for information about bugs in its dev projects like Angular, GoLang, ... Read more

date2 years ago
Germany to launch a sovereign tech fund to safeguard the internet

Germany to launch a sovereign tech fund to safeguard the internet

The move aims to secure the nuts and bolts of Internet infrastructure that are currently controlled by the United States. Germany is set to launch a sovereign tech fund to support the open source software that underpins the internet, according to reporting in Science Business. The move is prompt... Read more

date2 years ago
Microsoft and Google extend support for open-source security

Microsoft and Google extend support for open-source security

Tech giants Google and Microsoft extend their support for the Open Source Security Foundation’s new Project. OpenSSF’s new initiative aims to discover and resolve all vulnerabilities in open-source software programs. The Open Source Security Foundation, an industry group harnessing the suppo... Read more

date2 years ago
Amazon Elasticsearch Service is now Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon Elasticsearch Service is now Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon Web Services fulfilled its commitment to rename Amazon Elasticsearch Services, now Amazon OpenSearch Service. The name change was necessary because AWS and Elasticsearch BV had a falling out caused by the licensing of the Elasticsearch open-source software and pocketing the profits from its ... Read more

date3 years ago
Open source has the potential to boost the EU economy

Open source has the potential to boost the EU economy

The European Commission (EC) has released a new report that reveals the impact open-source software (OSS) and open-source hardware (OSH) can have on the European Union economy. The report is titled "The Impact of Open Source Software and Hardware on technological dependencies, competitiveness and i... Read more

date3 years ago
Google unveils the Allstar GitHub app

Google unveils the Allstar GitHub app

The app provides for continuous enforcement of best security practices This week Google announced the release of the Allstar GitHub application. The app enables what the tech giant calls "automated continuous enforcement of security best practices" in GitHub projects. The new app works by ena... Read more

date3 years ago
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