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Linux Foundation's 'Open Source Security Foundation' Launches New Threat Intelligence Mailing List

The Linux Foundation's "Open Source Security Foundation" (or OpenSSF) is a cross-industry forum to "secure the development, maintenance, and consumption of the open source software". And now the OpenSSF has launched a new mailing list "which aims to monitor the threat landscape of open-source proj...

And now the OpenSSF has launched a new mailing list"which aims to monitor the threat landscape of open-source project vulnerabilities," reports I Programmer, "in order to provide real time alerts to anyone subscribed." The Record explains its origins: OpenSSF General Manager Omkhar Arasaratnam said that at a recent open source event, members of the community ran a tabletop exercise where they simulated a security incident involving the discovery of a zero-day vulnerability. And that's one of the ways that we're responding to this gap that we saw...." The Siren mailing list will encourage public discussions on security flaws, concepts, and practices in the open source community with individuals who are not typically engaged in traditional upstream communication channels...

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