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At the AusCERT 2007 conference in Queensland last week, keynote speaker Ivan Krsti, who is the director of security architecture for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, told attendees that desktop security was fundamentally broken. We asked several security experts who attended the conference if they agreed and how the problem could be fixed.
The U.K. Cabinet Office and IBM are working together on a secure open-source environment for public and private sector organisations.
A security flaw in Linux editions of IBM's DB2 database could allow unauthorised users to seize control of a database's contents, Big Blue revealed.
Treasurer Peter Costello today urged Telstra to do all it can to secure up to 450 IT jobs, under threat of being exported to India by IBM.
IBM's Grady Booch says developers can no longer just dash off code without thinking about the larger implications.
Bug hunter David Litchfield says the Oracle community shouldn't be so smug when it comes to database security. He represents NGS Software, which has serviced Oracle in the past and Microsoft at present.
A security flaw in Linux editions of IBM's DB2 database could allow unauthorised users to seize control of a database's contents, Big Blue revealed.
A new open-source virtual-machine project has quickly won Linux allies, but its arrival brings complications.
The companies bridge a networking-system rift, while customers hope more such collaborations are on the way.
Ubuntu is a well integrated, practical and absolutely free Linux distribution. There may be worries about support, but the Canonical organisation is building a good reputation and the head of steam in the wider Ubuntu community should provide decent local support from third parties, too.
Databases are by no means an easy product category to understand. Many of the big players now offer free or "light" versions of their databases, but comparing them all is no easy task -- as we found out.
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