Archiveteam Project Collects Lost Web 2.0 Content
May 28, 2009Many users keep their emails with webmail services, wedding pictures in photo communities and reading habits with social bookmarking services. What happens, though, when data is lost or websites fold? Archiveteam wants to help in those circumstances.
more »Web Attacks Using HTTP Parameter Pollution
May 20, 2009At the OWASP AppSec Poland 2009 web security conference two Italian security experts presented a new kind of web application attack threat. The presentation slides for the method called HTTP Parameter Pollution (HPP) are now available online.
more »Rescue is on the Way: System Rescue CD 1.2.0
May 13, 2009Version 1.2.0 of the recovery distribution System Rescue CD brings all kinds of changes. Particularly the FSArchiver provides more in the new version.
more »Adobe Reader and Acrobat Security Updates
May 13, 2009Adobe has released security updates for its PDF Reader and Acrobat 9.1 and earlier versions.
more »Sun Developer on the Security of OpenOffice
May 13, 2009In a recent blog, Sun developer Malte Timmermann took a position on the security concerns of the Ecole Superieure d'Informatique, Electronique, Automatique (ESIEA) in Paris-Laval, France. The subject was the vulnerability of OpenOffice, involving document macros, for example.
more »KMIP: OASIS Group for Crypto Standards with IBM and Sun
May 07, 2009IBM, Sun Microsystems, PGP, Red Hat and other firms have formed a standards working group in the OASIS organization to develop a new Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) for encryption key management.
more »Pest Control: Free Virus Scanner AVG 8.5
May 07, 2009AVG Technologies has released a new version of its virus scanner for Linux as AVG 8.5. Biggest features are its malware protection, improved virus filter and on-access scanner based on the RedirFS filesystem.
more »FreeIPA Integrated identity management with FreeIPA
Apr 30, 2009FreeIPA offers integrated identity management and big ideas for the future.
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