{"id":12301,"date":"2021-09-17T14:51:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T18:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=12301"},"modified":"2021-09-20T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T17:42:08","slug":"google-backs-security-reviews-of-key-open-source-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/google-backs-security-reviews-of-key-open-source-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Backs Security Reviews Of Key Open Source Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Google has published details of eight projects it will support after pledging $100 million to teams that manage open source security priorities and help fix vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These eight projects include Git, a control program that forms the basis for platforms like GitHub and GitLab developed by Linux Kernel creator Linus Torvalds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Git appears to be the largest of the eight audits, it is considered &#8220;the second-most critical application in C,&#8221; with the other seven projects including important JavaScript and Java tools and frameworks for web development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The projects include Lodash, a modern JavaScript utility library for web development used in Chrome and other browsers; Laravel, a PHP Web Application Framework; SLF4J (Simple Logging Facade for Java); the Jackson core JSON for Java and the Jackson database package; and Httpcomponents-core and Httpcomponents-client.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Kaylin Trychon, Security Comms Manager on the Google Open Source Security Team, &#8220;The eight libraries, frameworks, and apps that were selected for this round are those that would benefit the most from security improvements and make the largest impact on the open-source ecosystem that relies on them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/google-is-backing-security-reviews-of-these-key-open-source-projects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> original story<\/a> in ZDNet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has published details of eight projects it will support after pledging $100 million to teams that manage open source security priorities and help fix vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-12301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source","tag-google"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12323,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12301\/revisions\/12323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}