70 Percent of Mobile, Desktop Apps Contain Open-Source Bugs

A full 70 percent of applications being used today have at least one security flaw stemming from the use of an open-source library. According to Veracode’s annual State of Software Security report, these open-source libraries – free, centralized code repositories that provide ready-made applicati...

Google's OSS-Fuzz Finds 1,000 Open Source Bugs

The numbers are in, and judging by them, OSS-Fuzz, the program Google unveiled last December to continuously fuzz open source software, has been a success. In five months the effort has unearthed more than 1,000 bugs, a quarter of them potential security vulnerabilities, Google says. OSS-Fuzz,...