Linux firewalls offer a robust, secure, and highly flexible solution. However, manually configuring them has generally been quite labour-intensive--until now. See how Firestarter can help you build an excellent Linux firewall in minutes.
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Microsoft's Bob Muglia explains why the software giant is emphasising hacking's criminality, and outlines its rejigged approach to plugging security holes.
A call for online vandals to take part in a Web site defacement contest has some companies warning clients to beware over the US holiday weekend.
A group of four Polish hackers published code to an open security mailing list that can take advantage of a major vulnerability in the Sendmail mail server.
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PHP, a server-side scripting language popular with Apache Web server administrators, has a serious flaw that could give an attacker complete access to the server.
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Choosing the right weapon against denial-of-service attacks is more challenging as new technologies hit the shelves. Learn how some enterprises chose solutions, and find out what tech issues came into play.
Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, Samba author and recipient of the mantle for Australia's "smartest man in IT", tells how Samba was nearly named Salmonberry, and what the SMB 2 protocol can do.
Many network administrators new to Linux find it hard to transition from a point-and-click security configuration interface to one based on editing complicated and hard-to-locate text files. Here are seven easy things administrators can and should do to make their Linux server more secure and significantly reduce the risk they face.
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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.
Telstra shareholders fear break up
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