It’s not uncommon to use more than one computer during the course of a week: a Mac at work, a PC at home and a laptop on the road. When people search for applications that will work across all platforms, many look for an open-source solution first, only to discover that apps that work on [...]

Inside and outside government, professionals increasingly carry data on their cell phones, including e-mail messages, documents, videos and instant messages. And there are those ? such as law enforcement officers, some employers and, yes, hackers ? who want to get at that data without the owner?s permission.Until recently, however, the tools to do that weren?t [...]

I?ve long followed and blogged about the prominence of Linux in supercomputing and the twice-annual Top500 Supercomputer List. In a relatively short time frame, the open source OS has shot to the top of the Top500 list thanks to its free availability, flexibility, stability, scalability and conduciveness for clustering. Over time, the tools and statistics [...]

OSX/AsTHT.A backdoor Trojan is designed to affect Apple operating systems such as MacOS, Leopard or Tiger. When run, the backdoor Trojan uses an Apple Remote Desktop Agent vulnerability to gain privi…
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SPYRUS announced that it will demonstrate its PocketCA complete Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificate system for Linux operating systems at the Red Hat Summit 2008. PocketCA is an implementation…
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Linux has been described as one of the most secure operating systems available, but the National Security Agency has taken Linux to the next level with the introduction of Security-Enhanced Linux (SEL…
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Memory corruption vulnerabilities are becoming increasingly difficult to exploit, largely due to the protection mechanisms being integrated into most modern operating systems. As general protection me…
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As older generations of non-networked health care machines get replaced with ’smarter’ network-integrated versions, the proliferation of embedded operating systems will grow.
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Don’t read anything into the fact that of the three laptops set up for last week’s “PWN to OWN” hack challenge, the only one left standing was running Linux. There wasn’t enough interest in Ubuntu, compared with the Windows and Mac operating systems, a contest organizer said.

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Just a day after a remarkably large Safari update, Apple released a “frighteningly large” security update that patched nearly 90 vulnerabilities in both its own code and the third-party applications it bundles with its Tiger and Leopard operating systems.

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Security researchers have uncovered a pair of vulnerabilities in VMware software, which is used to run multiple versions of an operating system on a single computer. One flaw affect a server version of the software, the other is found in desktop software.

At the recent Black Hat Security conference in Washington D.C., a researcher demonstrated that [...]

In the wake of a Princeton research team’s surprising announcement of a simple method for stealing encrypted data from DRAM chips on PCs – even after the unit’s power has been shut off – security experts told SCMagazineUS.com on Friday that the tools to thwart these thefts already are available.
A team headed by Edward Felten, [...]