open source security
Future mobiles, Windows 7, iPhone apps and the latest gadgets
Photo Google Android is also featuring on netbooks, with Acer recently launching a device that can dual boot both the open source OS and Windows 7. Check out which other phones made the open... [12 Nov 2009]
Introduction of SSL Protocol and OpenSSL Basic
White Paper OpenSSL is an open source, multi-platform implementation of the SSL. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a kind of cryptographic protocol that provides security and data integrity for... [04 Oct 2009]
Troubleshooting Slow Networks with Wireshark
White Paper Wireshark, the world's most popular open-source network analyzer, has become an essential tool to locate and diagnose the cause of network problems in the most efficient and cost-effective method possible. [01 Oct 2009]
Securing IP Networks
White Paper These security concerns are compounded by the fact that IP and open source technologies are breaking down walls within and among wireless and wireline networks, and between carriers and... [01 Oct 2009]
Open Source Security Myths Dispelled
White Paper Is it risky to trust mission-critical infrastructure to open source software? Why should we pay an open source vendor when open source... [30 Sep 2009]
Google's Chrome-in-IE tech means higher malware risk, says Microsoft
News Google Chrome Frame is an open source plug-in that is currently in an early developer release and was designed with security in mind from the beginning," Google said. Given the... [28 Sep 2009]
Why malware writers are turning to open source
News According to Candid Wüest, threat researcher with security firm Symantec, around 10 per cent of the Trojan market is now open source. And while open... [18 Sep 2009]
Red Hat Open Source Security
White Paper The open source development model allows innovation to happen rapidly in all areas—including security. Open source technology gives administrators... [18 Sep 2009]
Open Source in the Next Computing Wave
White Paper And open source is once again playing a major role. The current economic climate is also forcing more systematic thinking about costs in general, including those associated with overall complexity and... [16 Sep 2009]
Pro-Linux group snaps up Microsoft patents
News A pro-open-source group said on Tuesday it has acquired 22 patents recently sold by Microsoft - patents that the group said could have been used against Linux. The Open Invention... [09 Sep 2009]
Towards Data Security in Affordable Data Warehouses
White Paper The Data Warehouse Striping (DWS) technique is a round-robin data partitioning approach especially designed for affordable data warehousing environments based on clusters of low-cost computers running low-cost... [02 Sep 2009]
Open source hack could make mobiles vulnerable to prying ears
News Security researcher Karsten Nohl is launching an open-source, distributed computing project designed to crack the encryption used on GSM phones and compile it into a code book that can... [26 Aug 2009]
Google Chrome for Linux, arriving soon in 64 bits
News Chromium is the open-source project behind Google's branded and supported Chrome browser, and McNamee shared instructions for programmers to build 64-bit Chromium. Google or others also need to work on... [21 Aug 2009]
Firefox 3.5, show it some love says Mozilla
News A month and a half after Mozilla issued a significant update to its open-source web browser, the organisation has begun encouraging users of Firefox 3 to install version 3.5. Firefox 3.0.x will stop... [17 Aug 2009]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 General Overview
White Paper Red Hat introduced its Red Hat Enterprise Linux line of products in 2002, setting the standard as the highest quality open source products available for commercial computing deployments. Red Hat... [05 Aug 2009]
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