Securing open source software: Whose job is it, anyway?

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CISA announces more help, and calls on app makers to step up

On the government side of things, this includes a voluntary threat intelligence sharing program between the Feds and open source software developers and operators, which the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will lead.

The Rust Foundation will develop public key infrastructure for the crates.io package repository for mirroring and binary signing. The organization also published a threat model for crates.io and tools to identify malicious packages.When it launched in April 2023, Trusted Publishing supported GitHub. At the summit, the Python Software Foundation revealed it will soon support GitLab, Google Cloud and ActiveState.. Plus, it's finalizing index support for digital attestations.

"And while the Log4Shell vulnerability might have been a big wakeup call for many in government, it demonstrated what this community has known and warned about for years: due to its widespread deployment, the exploitation of OSS vulnerabilities becomes more impactful," she added.

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