[ad] Judging by figures alone, Vista is more secure than Mac OSX and Linux? I somehow find this a rather strange claim, I guess these things are always subjective. Most numbers can be moulded into any shape you want, and can show any result you like. According to the numbers given in a new report […]
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Homeland Security Uncovers Critical Flaw in X11
An open-source security audit program funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has flagged a critical vulnerability in the X Window System (X11) which is used in Unix and Linux systems. A missing parentheses in a bit of code is to blame. The error can grant a user root access, and was discovered using […]
Some Good Tips to Secure Linux
I came across this while browsing, has some pretty solid stuff, goes deeper than most basic Linux security guides. It has some good sections like this on protection against fork bombs: Fork bombs are programs that keep creating child processes until system resources are all used, they actually aren’t remote exploits because they require a […]