The group behind OpenSSL, a widely used open-source Web security program, released two patches for security flaws to block potential denial-of-service attacks, the organisation's developers said on Wednesday.
An open-source group that maintains software for securing communications released a patch on Tuesday to fix several vulnerabilities that were found during a security test by the U.K. government.
Operating system vendors were given two months notice before a serious security flaw was made public but some have yet to resolve the issue, a security researcher has claimed.
A new server survey from Netcraft finds that administrators are taking their time patching e-commerce servers, potentially leaving them open to newly discovered attacks.
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A new server survey from Netcraft finds that administrators are taking their time patching e-commerce servers, potentially leaving them open to newly discovered attacks.
The FBI and SANS have released an updated list of the most exploited threats in Linux/Unix systems.
Sun Microsystems donates new cryptography technology to an open-source project at the heart of many secure transactions on the Internet.
A new worm that attacks Linux Web servers compromises more than 3,500 machines, creating a rogue peer-to-peer network that has been used to flood other computers with data.
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