Stories about: OpenBSD

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    15 essential open source tools for Windows admins 20/09/2011 06:01:00

    You might imagine that the best place to go for improving your Microsoft server-side experience is to the mothership itself. In many cases, you would be right. But the truth is there are a meaningful number of open source tools that go above and beyond what Microsoft has to offer in support of Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint. Many of these alternatives provide -- for free -- more powerful capabilities than what you'd get with third-party retail products.
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    OpenBSD chief believes contractor tried to write backdoors 22/12/2010 11:38:00

    The lead developer of the OpenBSD operating system says that he believes that a government contracting firm that contributed code to his project "was probably contracted to write backdoors," which would grant secret access to encrypted communications.
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    OpenBSD back door claim now in doubt 17/12/2010 01:27:00

    The claim that the FBI planted a backdoor in OpenBSD a decade ago has been flatly denied by developer protagonists named as having been involved in the conspiracy in an email sent to OpenBSD founder, Theo de Raadt.
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    Storm over OpenBSD back door 16/12/2010 02:12:00

    It sounds as implausible as a Hollywood movie but allegations that the FBI was behind the creation of a 'back-door' into OpenBSD are creating a storm in the hacker community. It's a story that has everything: government secrecy, conspiracy theory and a case of mistaken identity.
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    Something Wiki this way comes 11/12/2010 10:42:00

    It's been All WikiLeaks, All the Time here in Cringeville lately. And why not? As I noted last time out, this is the biggest thing to hit the WebberNets since Tim Berners Lee dreamed it up 20 years ago. We're still unraveling the implications and probably will continue to do so for months if not years.
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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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