Rust-proofing the internet with ISRG's Prossimo
The Internet Security Research Group (ISRG)'s new Prossimo project seeks to make many basic internet programs and protocols memory-safe by rewriting them in Rust.
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The Internet Security Research Group (ISRG)'s new Prossimo project seeks to make many basic internet programs and protocols memory-safe by rewriting them in Rust.
Microsoft has announced it's adding even more security features to the protection it offers Linux operating systems for the cloud.
Security is becoming an increasingly key piece of the open source puzzle amid industry-wide pushes to shift left and integrate security during early stages of application development. The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), which encompasses Google’s Supply chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA), is one example of how the open source community is working to improve software security through an ecosystem approach, vying for proactive handling of security by default.
Oracle has published its latest quarterly update to GraalVM, the open-source Java JVM/JDK implemented in Java that also supports other execution modes and programming languages from Python to R to Ruby, adding Java 17 support and featuring a selection of other improvements you don't want to miss!
The Linux Foundation has raised $10 million in new investments to expand and support its Open Source Security Foundation project. “This industrywide commitment is answering the call from the White House to raise the baseline for our collective cybersecurity well-being, as well as ‘paying it forward’ to open source communities to help them create secure software from which we all benefit,” Jim Zemlin, executive director at the Linux Foundation, said in a statement. “With the tremendous growth and pervasiveness of open source software, building cybersecurity practices and programs that scale is our biggest task at hand.”
The Secure Open Source (SOS) Rewards pilot program, run by the Linux Foundation, will reward developers with potentially more than $10,000 for enhancing the security of critical open-source software.