At The Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit North America, Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, discussed various topics related to Linux development and the challenges the open-source community faces. Torvalds addressed hardware errors, malic...
A group of 18 organizations from all sectors of the economy has teamed with Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh to form a technology consortium dedicated to improving the reliability and security of commercial software. Armed with $30 million in seed . . .
Anti-spammers are in disarray as a former employee is accusing Mail Abuse Prevention System LLC of "slimy" legal tactics. Nick Nicholas, former executive director at MAPS, posted comments online last week contending that MAPS executives had filed lawsuit affidavits that "are full of factual errors and material misrepresentations.". . .
Despite the current emphasis on security in the IT industry, CIOs and IT managers are still not paying enough attention to the problems facing their organizations, a panel of security experts said Wednesday. "Security is still very much an afterthought," said . . .
The University of Texas at Dallas has joined forces with businesses and law-enforcement officials to create a center for cybercrime education and research. The Digital Forensics and Security Institute includes the collaborative efforts of the Greater Dallas Crime Commission, the . . .
The 10th anniversary of what has become the largest hacker convention on the planet! DEF CON 10 will be August 2nd to the 4th at the Alexis Park Hotel and Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.. . .
The first hacker to gain access to a server run by Korea Digital Works and leave their name on the site's front page this week will find it an enriching experience A Korean company is offering $100,000 (£70,000) in a 48-hour hacking competition, to be run this week. . . .
Most security strategies are primarily defensive. The plan is to stop attacks at the front (firewall), back (server) and/or bedroom (desktop) doors. This plan has zero tolerance for failure because it has no component for dealing with and diagnosing successful attacks. So when the inevitable breach occurs, so do the 2 a.m. phone calls, 24-hour work details and extensive system scrubbing and reconstruction.. . .
The Alliance for Electronic Business (AEB) is hoping to overcome distrust of e-business with a new set of web security guidelines. The move follows evidence that trust and confidence are still a major barriers to adoption of Internet trading by UK businesses.. . .
Security holes exist in just about every application, but preventing an attack can be remarkably simple, says an expert hacker "It's simple," says Rain Forest Puppy. "Don't feel you have to...take it from Microsoft, just figure out what services lead to security risks and turn them off.". . .
The New Zealand Defence Force is to use an international conference to put a product created by Auckland company Esphion against distributed denial of service attacks through its paces. The event, known as the Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (Jwid), will involve . . .
Microsoft and other software makers met with several computer-security companies Thursday to hash out the last details of a group that will set guidelines for reporting software flaws that affect Internet security. Currently named the Organization for Internet Safety, the group . . .
Last weekend's CodeCon conference in San Francisco saw the launch of Tinfoil Hat Linux, a self-proclaimed "exercise in over engineering" and security. What started out as a secure, single floppy, bootable Linux distribution for storing PGP keys, and encrypting, signing and . . .
Heavyweight security vendors and niche players alike are choosing the RSA Conference 2002 this week to present products designed to provide some of the missing pieces of real-world security environments for Web services.. . .
Open-source programmers gathered this past weekend to share ideas and dreams about new methods for distributing encrypted data across the Internet and plans for a peer-to-peer wireless backbone. Aside from a common love of computing, the crowd gathered in the dim confines of a nightclub at the edge of Multimedia Gulch here shared another trait: Most of them are unemployed.. . .
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. sent in a note about their upcoming conference. "For the FIRST time the Civil Contingencies Secretariat (CCS) will present their concept of the National Resilience Framework, developed as a basis for managing risk and resilience in key areas of the UK's infrastructure.". . .
Neil Robinson submitted information on their recent partnership with the BSIA. "The Information Assurance Advisory Council and the British Security Industry Authority (BSIA) today announced a partnership to promote a greater understanding of the overarching issues concerning physical and information security. While physical security provisions are integrated into the operating procedures of most organisations, information security is often overlooked. . . .
The IT industry has formed an alliance to tackle hackers, viruses and product vulnerabilities. The Security Alliance for Internet and New Technologies (Saint) is backed by the Department of Trade and Industry and supplier group the Computer Software and Services . . .
In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) swept aside most of its scheduled agenda to explore its options in shoring up the security of the Internet's domain name system (DNS), . . .
The likes of organizations such as Cisco, Apache Foundation, O'Reilly, RSA Security, Sun Micro, Sprint and American Airlines are developing a competing open standards-based platform similar to Microsoft's Hailstorm network identity solution. Very cool. "In an unprecedented collaboration between some of . . .
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. writes, "With security being a really hot topic, next year's Rubi-con security and technology conference looks very promising. Featuring a keynote by Steve Wozniak and presentations from ISS and many of the other big players in security, the fourth annual Rubi-con should be a great show.. . .
