Operating system security is always a hotly contended subject, and last week Microsoft amped up the hype by claiming that Windows Vista and the soon-to-be-released 7 is the world’s most secure OS, beating both Linux and Mac OS X.
Here’s what Microsoft’s chief operating officer Kevin Turner had to say at the MidMarket CIO Summit last week:
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Ask a network administrator in any large organisation to compare Linux with network operating systems like Windows NT or Novell Open Enterprise Server, and chances are he’ll admit that Linux is an inherently more stable and scalable solution.
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Many times I have experienced windows system administrators who just didn't care about Linux.
These people are not against Linux, they just don't have very much of an opinion about it.
If I try to convince someone like that, I can take my whole live just trying to convince them to even try it.
But I found a way to make them experience Linux.
Windows renders E-mail chaotic and the U.S. electrical grid gets cracked. Nothing beats a brand-new explanation from Microsoft itself about the impact of its poor security skills, which continue to this date.
Read more »I've typically been pretty conservative when choosing a web server. Typically, I'll use Apache to run most sites, and possibly Lighttpd for static files. Experimenting never really has been something done with a web server once I'm past the initial setup.
Read more »The other day a friend came to me with a problem, he had been surfing the internet for information about the conficker worm virus. As he misspelled the name as configer virus he didn't find a lot of real information on this virus. What he did find was a lot of links to site which were indicated by google as harmful to your computer.
Read more »The latest beta of The Fedora Project's Linux includes new security, desktop and developer features that offer a glimpse of the direction Red Hat could take with its enterprise Linux distribution.
Read more »This article introduces pyttpd - a Python webserver. The article is mainly about the basic ideas behind pyttpd, being based on the principle of privilege separation. So far the project is in its early planning phase and there is no code to show, but the article might be still interesting to read.
Read more »This is the first in a series about how versatile Python is and the many use-cases for this scripting language.
The first article covers the use of Python for the conficker scanner by Tillmann Werner of honeynet.org.
Read more »This firewall works like the open sesame, of the Sherezade 1001 nights, it opens whit the right "words" (ports), and then close again, so you can let the firewall normally close, and still connect from any IP when you are abroad.
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The Netfilter development team's Patrick McHardy has released an alpha version of nftables, a new firewall implementation for the Linux kernel, with a user space tool for controlling the firewall.
Read more »Yesterday afternoon I was speaking with a local administrator of one of the companies that I work for and in the past we had discussed topics such as GNU/Linux among other technical things but certain “concerns” always seem to come back up, not only with him but also other Microsoft using technical individuals that assume open source is bad, against Microsoft and anything good, and/or insecure
Read more »Have you ever come across a situation where you've needed a tool but didn't think you had the right one to get the job done?... Now shift into the application security mindset and voila, there's Firefox Web Developer: an unlikely "security testing" tool but one that serves the purpose very well.
Read more »You say you have no secrets. Your life's an open book. You have nothing to hide. But still, do you really want to make it easy for Uncle Sam -- or anyone else for that matter -- to rifle through your contact lists, read your e-mails or monitor your cash flow? Probably not.
But privacy advocates say it's never been easier for the government to collect information about you.
