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HP Open Source Middleware Stacks White Paper: Security Of Open Source Middleware Stacks
White Papers Deployed Linux-based HP Open Source Middleware Stacks (OSMS) is an individual system composed of various components, configurations, and services. This paper provides an overview of the security environment for OSMS in the system, network, and...
[January 3, 2007, 1:10]
Study Warns Of Open-source Security Danger
News A US conservative think-tank is to suggest in an upcoming report that open-source software is inherently less secure than proprietary software, and will warn governments against relying on open-source for national security.
[May 31, 2002, 16:34]
The Total Cost Of Security Patch Management: A Comparison Of Microsoft Windows And Open Source Software
White Papers There is conflicting information in the IT community about whether security patch management in Microsoft Windows client and sever operating systems is more expensive than their open source software (OSS) counterparts.
[July 9, 2007, 0:55]
Open Source 'lacks Enterprise-grade Security'
Talkback Can you imagine what the internet would be like if a majority of the servers were running windows, instead of Linux? Reads like a fairy tale. Online banking would be a nightmare, online commerce would be non-existent.
[July 24, 2008, 9:23]
Open Source Email Security Solutions: 10 Questions
White Papers Email Security has become a strategic issue for IT executives. The risks of making a mistake are business critical. The costs of making a wrong decision are measured not in terms of wasted IT budgets, but in terms of lost revenues, fraud, the...
[March 17, 2005, 2:00]
Ballmer Questions Open-source Code Security
News Click here to view the video.
[November 5, 2003, 14:35]
Microsoft Taught Security By Open-source Community
News When asked if the company had received had taken a leaf out of the open-source book, his response came with a chuckle. Microsoft's global director of product security, George Stathakopoulos, has told ZDNet Australia that the software giant has...
[May 7, 2003, 12:10]
Security Start-up Untangle Goes Open-source
News Untangle, a start-up that sells software for network security equipment, is making its core product open-source on Tuesday. The company already uses a variety of open-source software projects, including the SpamAssassin spam-screening software, the...
[June 26, 2007, 12:42]
Open Source Security Push Gets $20m
News Open source security vendor Sourcefire has secured $20m (£10.6m) in funding, the company announced on Friday. Sourcefire is best known for its popular Snort open source IPS product. The network intrusion prevention (IPS) vendor will use the funds...
[June 2, 2006, 17:15]
Google Sponsors Open Source Security Project
Blog In a blog post on Monday, Google security engineer Will Drewry said that one of the problems with open source security was getting fixes out quickly to everybody using a particular piece of open source software.
[May 6, 2008, 16:17]
Red Hat's Cox Warns On Open Source Security
News Alan Cox, one of the most respected figures in the UK open source community, has warned of complacency over the security of open source projects. Speaking to delegates at London's LinuxWorld conference on Wednesday, he emphasised that considerable...
[October 26, 2006, 12:20]
Researcher Slams Open-source Compulsion
Talkback In that open source software is being increasingly used in critical business and government applications, there is a clear need for additional watchdogs to monitor the security of open source products.
[September 24, 2003, 10:52]
Trend Micro: Open Source Is More Secure
News Trend claimed that one reason open source software has fewer security issues is the variety of Linux distributions. Mark Cox, security response team lead for open source vendor Red Hat, agreed that the Linux community shares security knowledge, but...
[June 13, 2006, 15:40]
Open Source 'lacks Enterprise-grade Security'
News The security practices of open-source IT developers should lead enterprises to think twice before using open-source software, according to a new study sponsored by security tools vendor Fortify. The study, carried out by application security...
[July 21, 2008, 17:03]
Linux Guru Argues Against Security Liability
News Alan Cox, one of the leading Linux kernel developers, has told a House of Lords hearing that neither open- nor closed-source developers should be liable for the security of the code they write. Cox, who is permanently employed at Red Hat, told the...
[January 18, 2007, 13:02]
Linux Developers Lose Complacency
News However, that model of software development comes with a hidden cost, critics say.companies that want to have a high assurance that an attack hasn't resulted in a security weakness will have to audit the code themselves, said Greg Wood, general...
[December 10, 2003, 8:20]
All The Open Source Security You Need?
Blog There's a list of 75 good open source security applications, on eSecurity Planet. If nothing else, the list - which we found linked from Linux Today - is a strong argument in favour of open source within security, and evidence of its increasing...
[April 29, 2008, 12:36]
Coverity Reveals Common Open-source Code Flaws
News A project funded by the US Department of Homeland Security has praised improvements in open-source security, while outlining some common errors. On Tuesday, Coverity released its Open Source Report, which gives results of bugs in more than 250 open...
[May 20, 2008, 17:35]
US Government To Fund Open Source Bug Hunt
News The US Department of Homeland Security is extending the scope of its protection to open source software. The list of open source projects that Stanford and Coverity plan to check for security bugs includes Apache, BIND, Ethereal, KDE, Linux...
[January 11, 2006, 9:05]
Linux Security Under Spotlight
News Perhaps in response to the excessive publicity given to the strong security associated with Linux and open source software, it's no surprise that a number of commentators are making a high-profile argument that Linux, just like every other...
[December 3, 2002, 11:21]
