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NAC system PacketFence 3.3.0 released
PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, free and open source network access control (NAC) system. Boasting a feature set including a captive-portal for registration and …
Linux Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition
If you use Linux in your day-to-day work, this popular pocket guide is the perfect on-the-job reference. The second edition has expanded from Fedora-only coverage to …
OmniOS: Open source OS for the Solaris community
OmniTI announced OmniOS, an open source operating system for application developers in the Solaris community looking for data-intensive application deployment. OmniOS is a …
Penetration testing tips, tricks and unusual situations
Raul Siles is a senior security analyst with more than 10 years of expertise performing advanced security services. He is a SANS Institute author and instructor of penetration …
Metasploit: The Penetration Tester’s Guide
Metasploit Framework (MF), the open source tool for launching exploits against remote machines, is a well-loved instrument that allows penetration testers to automate routine …
Widespread use of vulnerable open source components
Sonatype and Aspect Security collaborated on a study of the real-world use of vulnerable versions of open source libraries. Used by developers around the world, open source …
Open source audit plug-in for MySQL
McAfee announced a free open source audit plug-in for MySQL database users to capture complete detailed activity audits from their databases. The plug-in was created and …
Programmer hacks GitHub to prove a point
Russian programmer Egor Homakov has recently chosen a questionable tactic to prove the danger that a Ruby on Rails public key form update vulnerability poses to systems based …
NAC system PacketFence 3.2.0 released
PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, free and open source network access control (NAC) system. This is a major release with new features, new hardware support, …
Apache HTTP Server 2.4 released
Celebrating its 17th anniversary with an all-time record of nearly 400 million Websites powered worldwide, the Apache Software Foundation announced version 2.4 of the Apache …
yaSSL offers new open source security tools
yaSSL has made IT-level security tools available for the open source community, ensuring that mature, advanced security tools like Kerberos, wpa_supplicant, and OpenSSH are …
Trend Micro makes HijackThis open source
Trend Micro released HijackThis as an open source application. The code, originally written in Visual Basic, is now officially available at SourceForge. HijackThis scans your …