Coverity, which creates automated source-code analysis tools, announced late Monday its first list of open-source projects that have been certified as free of security defects.
Perl, PHP, Python and Samba have been commended for improving security in a report analysing over 250 open-source projects.
A project funded by the US Department of Homeland Security has praised improvements in open source security, while outlining some common errors.
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Businesses that run on the Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python (LAMP) model will have to "grow up" to avoid reliability issues in future, an IBM executive said.
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