In collaboration with Amazon Web Services and the Eclipse Foundation, OSTIF is excited to release our Independent Security Audit Impact Report for 2023! Over the past year, OSTIF worked with 10 projects to complete third-party security audits with funding supplied by AWS and the EF. The engagement oversaw 24 new…
OSTIF and the CNCF are proud to announce the completion of a security audit of CubeFS. The project, which provides cloud-native storage across a variety of access protocols, was audited by the team at Ada Logics during the Fall of 2023. The security audit for CubeFS was designed to be…
This year for OSTIF has been beyond our expectations and hopes. We’ve worked hard for open source security, bonding with new collaborators while growing our network to provide projects with help from experts. We completed almost 200% more projects than in 2022, hired a new full-time employee, and forged partnerships…
Open source project Mosquitto underwent a security audit with OSTIF and Trail of Bits in collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation. The project, which is a message broker for the MQTT protocol, is designed to connect the Internet of Things. Projects that are open to the internet have increased landscape exposure…
The Eclipse Foundation’s Equinox P2 was audited by Include Security in November 2022. Equinox P2 is a provisioning platform, started by IBM in 2001. The Eclipse Foundation was founded three years later to act as an open, non-for-profit leader of the Eclipse Project community. OSTIF was contacted by the Foundation,…
OSTIF and X41 are excited to announce the completion of our security audit of libjpeg-turbo! X-41 DSec and OSTIF collaborated in May of 2023 on a source code audit of libjpeg-turbo, the accelerated JPEG image decoding software. The audit’s emphasis was on reviewing input validation, memory management practices, and analysis…
DuckDuckGo, the privacy search engine, has contributed to OSTIF for a third time by donating $25,000 USD. The charitable giving as part of DuckDuckGo’s annual program Spread Privacy is special, as the funds are not allocated to any specific project. This contribution helps OSTIF tremendously and allows the organization to…
We have just completed our review of OpenSSL 1.1.1 with QuarksLab, and we are moving on to our next big project, Unbound DNS! What is Unbound and Why is it Important? One of the core functions of the internet is domain name resolution. This means that when you type in…
The OSTIF Bug Bounty Program has Officially Begun We are proud to announce that the pilot program for OSTIF bug bounties has started. This means that researchers around the world can now find application and security flaws in OpenVPN and VeraCrypt for monetary and career-building rewards. The maximum award for…
In our efforts to chase down a nasty bug in Microsoft IIS that caused first time visitors to get timeout errors, we uncovered a number of serious performance issues with the site. I (Derek) have spent the last two days migrating the site completely to free software. The site is…