The Ubuntu project has published a 'release candidate' or final testing version for the upcoming 9.04 version of its popular Linux distribution.
Perl, PHP, Python and Samba have been commended for improving security in a report analysing over 250 open-source projects.
Coverity, which creates automated source-code analysis tools, announced late Monday its first list of open-source projects that have been certified as free of security defects.
Sendmail, whose products are built on the software that delivers many e-mail messages, may release some substantial new technology as open source.
Every software developer likes to believe he or she is committed to application security -- but senior managers need to put their money where their mouths are to turn security rhetoric into action, a senior development manager at Oracle Corporation has told more than 200 delegates at the SECURECon security conference in Melbourne.
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The FBI and SANS have released an updated list of the most exploited threats in Linux/Unix systems.
A new, quick and effective anti-spam measure currently under development called Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is attracting a lot of attention. Is it feasible for Australian enterprises?
Fighting spam is job one after implementing a Postfix e-mail system. The default configuration will not stop all the spam. Fortunately, there are a few techniques at your disposal that you can use to minimise the effects of spam.
While setting up a mail server is a complex task, it doesn't have to be expensive. Here are the steps you need to take to get a Linux-based mail server configured using Postfix as the Mail Transfer Agent.
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