open source

A recent survey by Gartner found that more than half of organizations surveyed have adopted open source software (OSS) solutions as part of their IT strategy. Nearly one-third …

After 24 months of constant development, the Debian Project released Debian 6.0 (code name “Squeeze”), a free operating system, coming for the first time in two …

VideoLAN unveiled VLC 1.1.7, a security update on 1.1.6. When parsing an invalid MKV (Matroska or WebM) file, input validation are insufficient. If successful, a malicious …

Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft operating systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted …

Nmap is a free and open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. A primary focus of the 5.50 release is the Nmap Scripting Engine, which has allowed Nmap …

Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft operating systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted …

OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0 implementation and includes sftp client and server support. It encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to …

Following last week’s accusation by a former government contractor that the FBI has implemented backdoors into the encryption software used by OpenBSD, Theo de Raadt, …

PacketFence is a free and open source network access control (NAC) system. It can be used to effectively secure networks – from small to very large heterogeneous …

Internet engineers continue to enhance Internet security with the release of OpenDNSSEC, a tool which simplifies the process of signing one or more zones with DNSSEC. …