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Ballmer's Linux Spin

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Which operating system, Linux or Windows, is cheaper, more secure, and lower risk? Countless hours have been spent debating the question, and last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sparked the argument again. In a letter E-mailed to customers, Ballmer contended that a growing body of data proves that Windows beats its open-source competitor on all three fronts. . . .

Cloudmark Launches SafetyBar

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Cloudmark, best known for its spam-fighting add-in for Microsoft Outlook, has added fraud protection to its products' talents, and renamed the well-known desktop client from SpamNet to SafetyBar. . . .

Press Release: OpenBSD 3.6 Released

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We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 3.6. This is our 16th release on CD-ROM (and 17th via FTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of eight years with only a single remote hole in the default install. As in our previous releases, 3.6 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system: . . .

FBI supplier readies secure Linux

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Trusted Computer Solutions is branching out from its Solaris roots with a secure version of Linux, due out in spring 2005. The software company, also called TCS, is currently testing the secure version of Linux, which will provide its customers with an alternative to Sun Microsystems' Trusted Solaris operating system for running the TCS product line. . . .

A Day With The Patch Patrol

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On Tuesday this week Microsoft jolted its customers with 10 new security bulletins and a re-release of a previous bulletin. Seven of the new bulletins were ranked as "critical" by the software vendor, while three were ranked "important." . . .

Putting Products to the Security Test

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Effective security testing of new IT products is constrained by staff shortages, inadequate equipment and crunched time--in short, by a scarcity of resources. But even with all these hurdles, security testing can--and should--be done and done well. . . .

Palladium: Blessing or Curse?

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"There's a lot of good stuff in Pd [Palladium], and a lot I like about it. There's also a lot I don't like and am scared of. My fear is that Pd will lead us down a road where our computers are no longer our computers, but are instead owned by a variety of factions and companies all looking for a piece of our wallet. To the extent that Pd facilitates that reality. . . .

Indian government outsources Linux security to New Jersey firm

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Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) headquarters. And, according to Guardian Digital spokesperson Nicole Pearson, ISRO made the first contact. were originally looking for a secure mail server," says Pearson, who noted that ISRO found Guardian Digital through its online presence, not because of a sales call or other direct marketing efforts. . . .

Anti-virus program detects GNU Public Licence

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POPULAR OPEN SOURCE virus scanner Clamav has been hastily updated this morning to remove a 'false positive': the scanner was detecting the GNU Public Licence as a virus. Thousands of Open Source programs, including Clamav itself, include a copy of this licence, and since it is a plain text file it is incapable of containing a virus. . . .

Startup Devises New Way to Squash Worms

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While the large anti-virus vendors continue to spend millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours churning out updated signature files, a Utah-based startup this week plans to unveil an entirely new e-mail security solution that needs no signatures and is capable of trapping malicious messages before they reach users' desktops. . . .

Apple Releases Mac OS X Security Patches

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Apple Computer Inc. has released a security update for its Mac OS X client and server software, plugging vulnerabilities in a wide range of services, including file sharing, printing and QuickTime. The update is the third set of patches offered in the span of a month. . . .