Stop re-inventing the wheel and build your web applications with the excellent tools already available.

• AMD/OpenJDK/Oracle explore use of GPUs
• Smartphone security
• ASF Airavata
• Slackware 14 release
• Shuttleworth funds Inktank/Ceph
• New Apache toplevel project
• Zentyal 3.0 small business server reveals major release
• Keccak wins NIST
• SHA-3 competition

Sometimes error messages or log entries are too verbose for their own good, disclosing valuable information to attackers.

The more IT infrastructure complexity increases, the more indispensable vulnerability scanners become. If you are not interested in retaining the consulting services of a professional hacker, you might want to entrust the task of detecting vulnerabilities to a specialized software tool, such as OpenVAS.

• OSI accepting individual memberships.
• OpenGL 4.3 and ES 3.0.
• License Protection
• Raspberry Pi ramps up production.
• FSFE protects licences when bankruptcy strikes.
• Gaming passwords secured with My1login.
• Web Apps new to Ubuntu.
• LPI Forum
• RSA Anti Rogue App.
• US Cell Phone Right-to-Know Act.

If you have enabled IPv6 on your network without considering basic security issues, you might have opened up a hole for attackers. In this article, we demonstrate a successful attack on a server via IPv6 and explain how the popular security tools handle IPv6.

Create secure passwords with the help of a password generator and check for quality at the same time.

Cryptography is an important part of IT security, and OpenSSL is a well-known cryptography toolkit for Linux. Experts depend on OpenSSL because it is free, it has huge capabilities, and it’s easy to use in Bash scripts.