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‘Open source security’ News
Security patches for unix
The releases of SCO UNIX (3.2v4.2) and Open Desktop (3.0) has the following security patches available: uod368b -- passwd oda377a -- xterm, scoterm, scosession, clean_screen These can be downloaded from ftp.sco.com:/SLS. First get the file "info" which lists the actual filenames and descriptions of ...
Openvas is a opensource security scanner
As important as security is, remaining current with every development is hard, and evaluating possible vulnerabilities across a network can be quite a chore. You need a way to both automate tests and make sure you're running the most appropriate and up-to-date tests. Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) is a ...
Open source software is more secure
Microsoft stated that open source software is dangerous. Congressman Villanueva aptly pointed out that Microsoft gives no specifics on the dangers of open source ...
Code audits in open source security
Reviews of source code by developers other than the author of the code are good ways to catch errors that may have been overlooked by the original developer. Source code audits can vary from informal reviews with ...
Open source security myth
When performing experiments to confirm a hypothesis on the effect of a particular variable on an event or observable occurence, it is common practice to utilize control groups. In an attempt to establish cause and effect in such experiments, one tries to ...
Mobile AJAX
I was about to be a big ball ‘o negativity, but I managed to stop myself. After not being nice about the whole Foleo thing earlier, I was going to go right off ranting about the whole Mobile AJAX thing, prompted by reading over the Mobile AJAX FAQ. But then ...
Charles Stross Weighs in on the Foleo
Charles Stross, my new favorite scifi author, has just weighed in on the Palm Foleo. W00t!! I love it when worlds collide like this, things get all plasmic. And you know my dislike for standing on solid ground for too long. I was going to hold off on commenting about ...
Digg users are revolting (and 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0)
Tut-tut. Tis Thursday’s IT Blogwatch: in which Digg melts down over the HD-DVD "processing key". Not to mention what every geek will be wearing this summer… Heather Havenstein reports: Digg.com, the popular site where users determine the placement of new stories by voting, yesterday found itself in the center of what some ...
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