Dashlane, a popular subscription-based password manager and digital wallet, has decided to make the source code of its Android and iOS apps available to the public on GitHub under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 license. This move is intended to increase transparency and trust in the product, as well as promote a more collaborative and open development approach. By making the code available for exploration and auditing, the company hopes to receive feedback from the community on improving it and increased security vulnerability reports from cybersecurity researchers. The code snapshots will be updated every three months, but this could be more frequent if the associated processes are enhanced. The open-sourcing of the code will allow software engineers to see how things are done, and security researchers to look for any issues Dashlane's core team has missed. However, the source code release only concerns the client apps for Android and iOS, and the password management system which operates on Dashlane's servers has not been released. The company has promised that more open-sourcing will follow, with the web browser extension being the next product to be released.
This Cyber News was published on www.bleepingcomputer.com. Publication date: Mon, 06 Feb 2023 02:45:03 +0000