It isn’t often that good news makes headlines, especially in the security world. Dovecot bucked the trend earlier this month, with a cybersecurity audit that praised the mail server as “near-impenetrable”.
Cure53, the German security team that audited Dovecot, did a thorough job. The results were impressive. Cure53 found only three minor issues. Online discovery tool Shodan found that 68% of IMAP servers ran Dovecot.
Stellar report card is important is because it is open-source software. However, some of the biggest and most popular open-source projects have been felled by bugs that lay dormant for years.
Interesting thought: The problem is that while many eyes may scour open-source code, they aren’t all well-trained or experienced eyes, and they won’t always look at mundane parts of the code.
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