In an effort to boost security across the Web, Mozilla is extending its service for verifying plugins to competing browsers, although some questions remain.
By now, it's practically canon that bad passwords can have catastrophic consequences. What can a security admin do to ensure users are doing their part for server security? Enter Medusa, an open source software password auditing tool for Linux that will put all of your organization's passwords to the test.
Of course everyone is diligent about making timely backups. There are many ways to backup your data; here is the motley collection of backup schemes and devices that I use.
Andrew Lock shows how to serve your customers by challenging industry norms, innovate with existing products and combine information with promotion to with your customers.
<b>LinuxPR:</b> The GNOME Project is proud to announce GNOME 2.30, the latest stable release of the popular Free Software desktop environment and applications suite.
<b>Click:</b> "Anyhow, Dru is a tremendously gifted writer whose O'Reilly columns in the early 2000s and her subsequent book "The Best of FreeBSD Basics" has been a great help to me. Not so ironically, Dru along with fellow BSD writer Michael W. Lucas are two of the best out there at explaining Unix to the thick-of-head such as myself."
Database management systems (DBMSs) have simultaneously simplified and complicated the lives of many IT workers. Error codes passed from the database back to the application can take on more than 1000 values. What level of error checking should developers include in applications?
<b>Phoronix:</b> "NVIDIA's open-source Linux efforts as it concerns their GPU support have historically been minimal. The xf86-video-nv driver has been around that provides very basic 2D acceleration and a crippled set of features besides that"
New study surveying Microsoft vulnerabilities concludes that most can be mitigated by tightening up admin permissions ahead of the monthly patch cycle.
Three Spanish hackers believed to be responsible for using a botnet to steal log-in credentials and customer banking data were arrested following a multinational investigation.
ASP.NET Developers, do you have ASP.NET pages that are slow to respond to the user and/or timeout. Try this technique to move those processes to the background and provide feedback to the user.
ASP.NET Developers, do you have ASP.NET pages that are slow to respond to the user and/or timeout. Try this technique to move those processes to the background and provide feedback to the user.
<b>Unity Linux:</b> "The developers at Unity Linux have been working hard on expanding our package repositories. At this point, there are well over 8600 packages for each of the i586 and x86_64 architectures."
<b>ZDNet UK:</b> "After all, it has become almost de rigueur in geek circles, especially amongst the non-Windows using Mac and Linux crowd, to blame every security mishap on Microsoft."
<b>eSecurityPlanet:</b> "An audit by the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General reveals that while the FBI and Justice Department have made "various efforts" to fight identity theft crimes in recent years, these initiatives have "faded as priorities" mainly because the agencies have failed to develop a coordinated plan to deal with what's become an epidemic of cybercrimes."
Adobe Acrobat and Reader PDF applications are vulnerable to a new attack that relies on social engineering to trick users into clicking on something they shouldn't.
Xerox's new $399 color laser printer is fast, attractive and versatile. But is it eclipsed by Xerox's latest discount on a slightly older step-up model?