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Linux vulnerable to USB worms

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At the ShmooCon hacker conference, security expert Jon Larimer from IBM's X-Force team demonstrated that Linux is far from immune from attacks via USB storage devices: during his presentation, the expert obtained access to a locked Linux system using a specially crafted USB flash drive, ...

Top 10 free open source tools for network admins

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Routing issues, slow network applications, DNS resolution problems -- a network administrator has to deal with a host of network nuisances on a daily basis. How do you survive when you're constantly under the gun to fix the problems? Like any other professional, you need a solid set of tools.

Linux 2.6.37 Kernel Promises to Unlock OS

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Linus Torvalds is starting 2011 off with a bang with the release of the 2.6.37 Linux kernel. The new kernel is the first release since 2.6.36 debuted in October. The goal of the new 2.6.37 kernel is to provide developers with improved Linux performance, security and scalability.

Allegations regarding OpenBSD IPSEC

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Thanks to Mehran for sending this in. OpenBSD IPSEC stack has backdoor and due to that's first open source implementation of ipsec, some OSes have the same piece of code! Since we had the first IPSEC stack available for free, large parts of the code are now found in many other projects/products. Over 10 years, the IPSEC code has gone through many changes and fixes, so it is unclear what the true impact of these allegations are."

Top 5 Security Threats in HTML5

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Somehow technology seems to evolve at a rapid pace, even when the standards bodies that help define it do not. Consider that most of today's websites are built on HTML4, a standard that was introduced in 1997. In the thirteen years since, the way we use the Web has changed dramatically, even if the underlying standard has not.

WordPress 3.0.2 security update released

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The WordPress development team has released version 3.0.2 of their popular open source blogging and publishing platform, a maintenance and security update for the 3.0.x branch of WordPress. According to the developers, the update addresses a security issue that could allow a malicious Author-level user to gain further access to a site.

Linux kernel 2.6.36 released

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Nearly twelve weeks after the release of Linux 2.6.35, Linus Torvalds has released Linux 2.6.36. The new version of the Linux kernel includes various performance enhancements and updates, the AppArmor security extension and support for the KDB-KMS-Debug-Shell. Other changes include a new Out-of-Memory (OOM) killer and kernel thread improvements.

5 Things Linux Does Better Than Mac OS X

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Were it not for Windows' long-standing installed base and overwhelming market dominance, it seems unlikely that anyone would argue seriously for the merit of the operating system, plagued as it is by high prices, security problems and vendor lock-in.