Stories about: OpenBSD

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    Kings of open source monitoring 01/10/2009 16:11:00

    Network monitoring is a fact of life for IT departments. Monitoring software ranges from simple ICMP-based scripts for up/down monitoring to midrange products like SolarWinds to high-end offerings such as HP's OpenView and IBM's Tivoli — all of which have their drawbacks.
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    The greatest open source software of all time 17/08/2009 20:11:00

    Every year InfoWorld painstakingly selects its Bossie Award winners -- the best open source software for business -- and every year we have shamefully neglected the very cream of the open source crop. While we've awarded the Dojos, Xens, and SugarCRMs, we've ignored Linux, GNU, and the *BSDs -- because, well, don't their excellence and importance go without saying? In other cases, where open source giants did receive our award (Snort and Wireshark come to mind), a "mere" Bossie almost seems like faint praise.
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    Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of the OS 28/07/2009 01:27:00

    Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created.
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    Apple's patch process a mess, say researchers 23/09/2008 07:57:00

    Apple's patching process proves that the company isn't serious about moving Macs into the enterprise, security researchers said Monday.
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    Open-source software in the data center 28/01/2008 07:51:29

    Rakesh Kumar, an analyst at Gartner. "There is an argument that users [of open source] gain access to a larger skill set than with other platforms," he says, referring to the notion that many eyes debug and look at open-source code.
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    Researchers claim first iPhone vulnerability 24/07/2007 11:11:37

    Three security researchers claimed Sunday that they have found the first exploitable vulnerability in Apple's iPhone, a flaw that allows them to steal any data from the device or even to turn it into a remote surveillance tool.
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    Free Software Foundation to unveil new GPL Version 3 29/06/2007 14:15:03

    After several years of debate and more than 18 months of sometimes passionate public comments and revisions, the latest GNU General Public License Version 3 (GPLv3) software license will officially be released Friday by the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
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    Hacker breaks into Mac at security conference 23/04/2007 08:02:10

    A hacker managed to break into a Mac and win a US$10,000 prize as part of a contest started at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver.
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    Core Security discovers IPv6-related flaw in OpenBSD 16/03/2007 08:27:58

    Core Security Technologies says it's discovered an IPv6-related buffer-overflow vulnerability in several versions of the OpenBSD operating system that would allow an attacker to knock a server offline or take control at the kernel level. The OpenBSD project, the group which makes the free operating system available, has issued a software patch to plug the hole.
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    Vulnerability counts do matter 08/02/2007 15:26:34

    It happened again! I got into yet another argument...er...heated discussion over the security of Microsoft Windows versus some other operating system. Usually it starts with some reader's knee-jerk emotional reaction -- saying "Windows sucks!" or something like that.
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    Vista hardware security gets PC maker go-ahead 14/12/2006 08:37:23

    Microsoft has won agreement with PC makers to add a fundamental change at the BIOS level to improve security in Windows Vista.
 
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