Title :
A Study on Practices against Malware in Free Software Projects
Author :
Colomina, I. ; Arnedo-Moreno, J. ; Clariso, Robert
Author_Institution :
Estudis d´Inf., Multimedia i Telecomun., Univ. Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Abstract :
Many popular applications are developed using a free software model, through the collaborative effort of a community which makes the source code available for free. Unfortunately, malicious third parties may attempt to take advantage of this combination of popularity and openness by introducing software components that infect end-users who install the application. To reduce this security risk, several technical procedures and community management practices can be used during software development and distribution. This paper studies these procedures in the free source domain and evaluates their application in two widely-used open source projects, Symfony and Chromium.
Keywords :
invasive software; public domain software; risk management; software engineering; Chromium; Symfony; community management practice; free software project; free source domain; malware; open source project; security risk reduction; software component; software development; software distribution; source code; technical procedure; Chromium; Communities; Licenses; Malware; Organizations; Software; collaboration; free software; malware; open source; security; software development;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (WAINA), 2013 27th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Barcelona
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6239-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4952-1
DOI :
10.1109/WAINA.2013.245
