Department of Homeland Security Archives

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Coverity’s David Maxwell on Quality Issues in Open Source Software

By Katherine Noyes
Jun 26, 2008
LinuxInsider
1217 Words

Open source software just keeps getting better, according to a new report from Coverity, a San Francisco-based maker of source code analysis tools. Specifically, Coverity's Scan Report on Open Source Software 2008, released last month, found a 16 percent reduction in static analysis defect density i...

Coverity Certifies 11 Open Source Bug Hunters

By Chris Maxcer
Jan 10, 2008
LinuxInsider
432 Words

San Francisco-based security firm Coverity has been working with support from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and with Stanford University to find flaws in open source software, and it looks like they've found plenty. Since March 2006, an online Coverity software scanning site has analyzed ...

Major Security Flaw Patched in X Window System

By Jennifer LeClaire
May 3, 2006
LinuxInsider
532 Words

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's open source security audit program has identified the biggest X Window System security vulnerability in the last six years. The X Window System is used in Unix and Linux operating systems. It also ships as an optional GUI with Apple's Macintosh computers. C...