The European Commission in January is funding 14 bug bounty programs in hopes of sniffing out vulnerabilities in the free open source projects that EU institutions rely on. The programs span 14 open source software projects and offer a total of almost $1 million for all bounties combined. The first bug bounties for Filezilla, PuTTY, Apache Kafka, Notepad++, Notpad++, and VLC Media Player begin next week on Jan. 7. Security experts worry that the programs miss the mark on truly securing open source.
Source: https://threatpost.com/eu-offers-bug-bounties-for-14-open-source-projects/140473/