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Linux community adopts UEFI technology
The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Forum, a non-profit industry standards body of leading technology companies that promotes firmware innovation by creating …
Big Data cloud solutions powered by open source analytics database
At RSA Conference 2013 in San Francisco, Virtustream announced it has partnered with Metamarkets and Skilled Analysts to offer big data solutions in the cloud. There is a …
Oracle releases MySQL 5.6
Oracle today announced MySQL 5.6, the world’s most popular open source database. With increased performance, scalability, reliability and manageability, MySQL 5.6 helps …
GitHub MitM attack orchestrated by Chinese censors?
China-based users and visitors of GitHub, the globally popular online source code repository, have been targeted with an man-in-the-middle attack late last Friday, reports …
PowerDNS 3.2 expands DNSSEC support
The PowerDNS Authoritative Server enables authoritative DNS service from all major databases, including but not limited to: MySQL PostgreSQL Oracle SQLite LDAP DB2 Sybase …
Nmap 6: Network exploration and security auditing cookbook
Nmap 6: Network exploration and security auditing cookbook will help you master Nmap and its scripting engine. You will learn how to use this tool to do a wide variety of …
Nmap 6.25 released
Nmap is a free and open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the …
Xen Cloud Platform 1.6 released
Xen Cloud Platform is a virtualization platform for companies to create and manage virtual infrastructures for servers, desktops and clouds. XCP 1.6 strengthens its server …
ForgeRock launches open source stack to secure applications and services
ForgeRock announced availability of an open source stack to secure applications and services across enterprise, cloud, social and mobile environments. With more than 250K …
Coverity Security Library released on GitHub
Coverity announced the creation of the Coverity Security Library, an open source project available through GitHub and Maven to help developers easily fix cross-site scripting …
Open source NAC system PacketFence 3.6 released
PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, free and open source network access control (NAC) system. Among the features provided by PacketFence, there are: BYOD (Bring Your …
ModSecurity 2.7.0 released
ModSecurity makes full HTTP transaction logging possible, allowing complete requests and responses to be logged. Its logging facilities also allow fine-grained decisions to be …
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