The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons.
A flaw in the most popular communications protocol for sending data on the Net could let attackers shut down connections between servers and routers, according to an advisory released Tuesday by Britain's national emergency response team.
In studying the effects of the MSBlast worm, some security experts turned to an unlikely source in search of clues to the prevention of computer epidemics: plants.
The open-source community is pushing customers to patch their systems to close a hole in a software component that allows Windows programs to store and retrieve files on Linux and Unix servers.
Sun Microsystems has teamed up with firewall maker Check Point Software to offer a security appliance based on Linux, the companies announced Monday.
Microsoft is investigating a security breach on a server that hosts its Windowsbeta community, which allows more than 20,000 Windows users a chance to test software that is still in development.
The software giant eliminates the Windowsupdate.com address that the self-propagating MSBlast worm was set to attack.
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