Initiative to avoid the next Heartbleed

The biggest technology companies have joined forces, creating an initiative that will try to prevent the emergence of a new security gap, as was the recent heartbleed.

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More specifically, Amazon, Cisco, Dell, Facebook, Fujitsu, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NetApp, Qualcomm, Rockspace and VMware created the "Core Infrastructure Initiative", An initiative to fund and support open source software developers.

Η ανακοίνωση της πρωτοβουλίας έγινε από το μη κερδοσκοπικό Linux Foundation, το οποίο ανέλαβε και την οργάνωσή της. Το ποσό που θα συνεισφέρει ο κάθε ένας από τους συμμετέχοντες δεν ανακοινώθηκε, ωστόσο σε δημοσίευμά του το ορίζει το ποσό που θα διαθέσει η κάθε at $ 300.000.

Post collected will support the development of secure open source software, which is a key component of the Internet and technological development.

As Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, says, many of the creators of such applications do not have the necessary funding to support their work.

It is worth noting that Heartbleed was one of the biggest security holes in the history of the Internet. The problem was created by a line of code in OpenSSL Open Architecture software, which is based on a percentage of 66% of web servers for data encryption.

The security gap in OpenSSL essentially meant that the cryptographic keys, which ensure that all the "secret" passwords and passwords of users are securely transmitted, could be intercepted by a web server without being understood. The Heartbleed bug has been in OpenSSL for more than two years, before being publicly perceived and announced.

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