A project funded by the US Department of Homeland Security has praised improvements in open source security, while outlining some common errors.
A US government-sponsored open-source bug hunt has resulted in more patches and security alerts.
Perl, PHP, Python and Samba have been commended for improving security in a report analysing over 250 open-source projects.
Developers have quickly fixed many bugs in popular open-source packages that were flagged as part of a US government-sponsored bug hunt.
The most popular open-source software is also the most free of bugs, according to the first results of a US government-sponsored effort to help make such software as secure as possible.
help/how to Three new vulnerabilities in Microsoft's version of the open source Remote Procedure Call (RPC) protocol is particularly serious because it exploits a flaw behind the Blaster worm.
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Bill Joy, Sun's chief scientist and a pioneer in designing Unix, has voiced doubts about Linux's open-source underpinnings.
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