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Zelerate software to live, promises ex-CEO

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The open source software from former e-commerce poster child Zelerate will live on, despite the company's demise in March, former boss Rob Ferber has promised. The All Commerce software was issued under the GNU General Public License, and boasted customers such . . .

UnixReview Review's EnGarde Secure Linux

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The EnGarde Linux distribution is probably the most secure Linux distribution I've seen. EnGarde enforces physical, host, and network security to protect your machine from attacks inside and out. In addition to tightening security policies and adding features like a LILO password to prevent someone with physical access getting root, EnGarde also includes intrusion detection to alert you to break-in attempts. Some distributions I've looked at seem to concentrate too heavily on one aspect of security or another, but EnGarde seems pretty well rounded.. . .

MandrakeSoft Unfolds Linux Security Strategy

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In a much awaited move, MandrakeSoft today outlines its Linux Security stategy aimed at individual, small office home office (SoHo) and small and medium enterprise (SME) users, and announces the availability of the 'Single Network Firewall'. In line with its continuing . . .

WireX Releases FormatGuard 1.0

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WireX is pleased to announce the broad release of FormatGuard 1.0, the latest member of the Immunix security tool suite. Similar to StackGuard , FormatGuard provides run-time protection against printf format string vulnerabilities.. . .

The Hottest Thing in Firewalls

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... Eleven years later, the Israeli whiz kid who never finished college is co-founder and chief executive of Check Point Software Technologies, one of the most profitable software companies around. How profitable? Well, in the first quarter ending March 31, Check . . .

Changes to FreeBSD security support policy

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This announcement describes a change in the security support status of the FreeBSD 3.x branch, as well as the introduction of two new methods for tracking security fixes to FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE: a FreeBSD CVS branch based on 4.3-RELEASE which will contain security fixes only, and the intention to trial binary security update packages for users of FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE on the i386 platform.. . .

WARNING Notice to ALL LONE-TAR Users

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Earlier versions of LONE-TAR, prior to 11/4/98, had a date math problem which caused the program to stop working on April 19, 2001. We have a patch available on our web site that will permanently fix this problem. However, the version of LONE-TAR running is out of support and still has other problems associated with Y2K compliancy.. . .

Hackers Win Security Challenge

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A security firm that claimed it couldn't be hacked can't make brash statements anymore. Argus admitted that a group from Poland has won the fifth Argus Hacking Challenge, but the security company said it screwed up in choosing an operating system. . . .

NetBSD Security Processes and Services

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This document covers secure processes and services for NetBSD Operating Systems and Networks. Most of the information in this document can easily be translated to other BSD systems, however.The documentation for setting up NetBSD firewalls, IP network address translation (IPNAT) and . . .

Industry groups form Internet Security Alliance

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Several industry groups joined forces Thursday to form a new consortium dedicated to improving the security of the Internet. The Internet Security Alliance -- a collaborative effort of the CERT Coordination Center, the Software Engineering Institute and the Electronic Industries Alliance . . .

Immunix Review

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One aspect of security, then, is to prevent these attacks whenever possible. This is where WireX and their Immunix distribution and StackGuard compiler come in. WireX's StackGuard compiler is based on the egcs compiler, but has been rewritten to remove buffer . . .

EnGarde Tripwire HOWTO

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This is another document I've written on utilizing EnGarde Secure Linux. In this document I show how to configure Tripwire for use with EnGarde Secure Linux 1.0.1. All of the day-to-day report handling can be done through the WebTool, but . . .

EnGarde FTP HOWTO

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This is the first in a series of documents I'm writing on utilizing EnGarde Secure Linux. In this document I show all of the necessary steps to enable the ftp daemon. Since it does not come enabled by default . . .

Wireless security makes headway

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Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is an open standard that enables wireless devices to communicate independently of vendor or wireless networks and thus more easily access information and Internet services. WAP allows you to load data onto any kind of wireless device . . .