Samba and the Software Freedom Law Center sign an agreement with Microsoft that gives them full access to Microsoft’s server protocols.
On Dec. 20, the Samba Group and the Software Freedom Law Center announced a deal with Microsoft that places all of Microsoft’s network protocols needed for programs to work with Windows Server into the hands […]

Although I was familiar with all the concepts and terms regarding the Microsoft Network Access Protection (NAP) and the Cisco NAC technologies, what actually prompted me to take a look at the new Windows Server 2008 Network Policy Server was unrelated to either of those. My interest in the Windows 2008 Network Policy Server (NPS) […]

Next time you are sitting in a hotel lobby checking e-mail on your laptop, be careful: The “businessman” in the next lounge chair may be tracking your every move.
Many Wi-Fi users don’t know that hackers posted at hot spots can steal personal information out of the air relatively easily. And savvy criminal hackers aren’t settling […]

Here’s a radical plan for making the Internet safe for every legitimate user
In the first column of this year, I discussed computer security outlook and hopes for 2008. I forecast more of the same that we saw in 2007: more spam, more malware, more bad guys basically owning the Internet and our connected computers. I […]

VoIP security solutions provider Sipera Systems has posted their list of what their Sipera VIPER Labs sees as the five top VoIP Security Threats for 2008.
Before I offer this list, two caveats:
First, when a company with technological solutions posts their predictions, it is almost always a tacit declaration on their part that they know what […]

Infected sites feed exploits to visitors–and more sites are affected than first suspected.
A large-scale hack of legitimate Web sites to infect visitors’ PCs is much more massive than first thought, researchers said Friday. At least 10,000 sites have been compromised, and have hijacked unpatched systems that steered to their URLs.
On Monday, Mary Landesman, a senior […]

CarTorrent could smarten up our daily commute, reducing accidents and bringing multimedia journey data to our fingertips
The name BitTorrent has become part of most people’s day-to-day vernacular, synonymous with downloading every kind of content via the internet’s peer-to-peer networks. But if a team of US researchers have their way, we may all be talking about […]

Work out your network security recuirements
Q Having just installed a new broadband wireless modem router, I’m confused as to which security option to use.
The web interface tells me that there are three different alternatives: WEP, WPA-PSK, WPA-802.1x.
Which should I use - and is there anything else that can make the network more secure?
GA, Computeractive forum
A […]

AVG Free Edition downloaded from CNET more than one million times in a single week
GRISOFT, developer of the AVG range of security software, announced that its anti-virus program, AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition, was downloaded more than 1,000,000 times from CNET Download website (http://www.download.com/3101-2023-0-1.html) in the week between Christmas and New Year and also in the […]

Linux development is more like a social network built on trusted relationships and less like a democratic community of individuals dedicated to a single development process, according to Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
“I have a policy that he who does the code gets to decide,” said Torvalds, the Linux project coordinator who has written approximately 2% […]