We’re excited to announce the winners of the Golden Egg Awards. These awards shine a light on those who go above and beyond in enriching our community. The Golden Egg Award symbolizes the community’s gratitude for selfless dedication to securing open source projects through community engagement, engineering, innovation, and thoughtful leadership.Â
Get ready for the Secure Open Source Software (SOSS) Community Day NA and Open Source Summit North America 2024, next week in Seattle, Washington! These events are where open source communities converge to collaborate, drive innovation, and foster a vibrant open source ecosystem.Â
In our first podcast – Vincent Danen and the Art of Vulnerability Management, Omkhar Arasaratnam, General Manager of OpenSSF, talks to Vincent Danen, Vice President of Product Security at Red Hat, who is responsible for security and compliance activities across Red Hat's products and services. He’s also on the Governing Board of the OpenSSF. Vincent has…
At SOSS Community Day NA on April 15, 2024 the OpenSSF Community will conduct a Tabletop Exercise (TTX). Periodically walking through various scenarios of a supply chain attack in a time of calm helps identify action items that are important to prepare in advance for when real attacks occur. A TTX is an important planning…
The compromise of VoIP provider 3CX is just one of the latest incidents to highlight gaps in software supply chain security - and the need for a new approach to supply chain risk management, writes Charlie Jones of ReversingLabs.
CVE-2024-3094 documents a backdoor in the xz package. While the motivation behind this backdoor remains unknown, the intent was to compromise specific distributions, as the backdoors were only applied to DEB or RPM packages for the x86-64 architecture built with gcc and the gnu linker. Situations like this remind us all that we need to…
The OpenSSF was pleased to be one of the sponsors that helped contribute to the inaugural 2024 VulnCon conference that brought together experts from across industry, government, security researchers, and community members throughout 3 days and nearly 40 sessions. Brought together by the FIRST PSIRT SIG and the CVE Board. Christopher “CRob” Robinson, OpenSSF TAC Chair…
Welcome to the March 2024 edition of the OpenSSF Newsletter, with our latest information on what’s been happening lately and what’s on our radar.
Scorecard is an automated tool from the OpenSSF that assesses 19 different vectors with heuristics ("checks") associated with important software security aspects and assigns each check a score of 0-10. You can use these scores to understand specific areas to improve in order to strengthen the security posture of your project. Intel currently uses Scorecard to…
Empowering Women in Tech: An Interview on Angela Jeffrey’s Journey to Cybersecurity Interviewer: Omkhar Arasaratnam
