ForAllSecure, maker of a next-generation fuzzing solution called Mayhem, announced a $2 million program Wednesday aimed at making open-source software (OSS) more secure. The company is offering developers a free copy of Mayhem and will pay them $1,000 if they integrate the software into a qualified OSS GitHub project.
“We’re on a mission to automatically find and fix the world’s exploitable bugs before attackers can succeed,” David Brumley, CEO and co-founder of ForAllSecure, said in a statement.
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“OSS developers need help and don’t have access to the tools they need to quickly and easily find vulnerabilities,” Brumley continued. “Our Mayhem Heroes program democratizes software security testing, will make tens of thousands of OSS projects safer, and ultimately impact the security of systems used by everyone around the world.”
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