{"id":65350,"date":"2014-04-24T21:45:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T19:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=65350"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:44:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:44:00","slug":"tech-companies-unite-to-avoid-another-heartbleed-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/tech-companies-unite-to-avoid-another-heartbleed-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech companies unite to avoid another Heartbleed disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, the Linux Foundation announced a mutli-million dollar initiative<\/strong> to fund open-source projects. The Core Infrastructure Initiative will help raise and distribute funding to open-source projects that are critical to the internet<\/strong>. OpenSSL<\/a>, the open-source encryption software library responsible for Heartbleed<\/a>, is the first project under consideration for funding.<\/p>\n

The Linux Foundation hopes to provide more resources to open-source projects that are critical to the internet. In the past, the OpenSSL project received just $2,000 per year<\/strong> in donations. Understaffed and underfunded projects like OpenSSL could lead to catastrophic bugs in the future.<\/p>\n

Big names like Google<\/a>, Amazon, and Facebook<\/a> have all pledged to be part of the Core Infrastructure Initiative. “We believe that an open-source approach to online security will ensure that code is constantly improving, making the web a safer place for us all,\u201d said Chris DiBona, Director of Engineering for Open Source at Google. All web companies benefit from this initiative as there are universally used open-source technologies.<\/p>\n

Users can help donate to the Core Infrastructure Initiative as well. You can contribute via the Linux Foundation’s site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more about the Heartbleed bug, you can find all our coverage here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source: Linux Foundation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Via: Ars Technica<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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