For almost two years the OpenSSL library used by Linux distribution Debian has been generating useless cryptographic keys — although Debian has issued a patch, experts warn that systems may still be exposed.
Apple Computer on Tuesday in the US released a security update for Mac OS X to repair 31 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day Wi-Fi hijack flaw.
Victoria's Department of Education and Training is continuing to develop in-house server software it built on top of open-source tools to bring its state-wide wireless network to life.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is extending the scope of its protection to open-source software.
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.
Intel is acting to calm fears that technology in its Pentium 4 processors will allow hackers to steal passwords by reading 'footprints' in the cache.
Linux users have been urged to fix a flaw in the core component of the open-source operating system, following the public release of code that could be used to crash Linux systems.
Apple released updates for the Panther and Jaguar versions of Mac OS X that fix security issues in the operating systems' printing, mail and encryption capabilities, as well as a critical vulnerability in the handling of Web addresses.
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.
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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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