The open-source project Bugzilla, for example, provides an easy to use, easy to maintain and cost effective solution with a rich feature set that easily can compete with its proprietary counterparts.

Bugopolis Wednesday announced Bugzilla Now!, its new defect-tracking solution for open-source tools users.

Bugzilla is a free, Web-based tool used by software developers to track code bugs and defects. It was originally developed by the Mozilla Foundation and is widely used in the open-source community.

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Smaller open-source projects and software companies with publicly accessible Bugzilla systems will be vulnerable until they update, Check Point's Tal said.