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NAC system PacketFence 3.2.0 released
PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, free and open source network access control (NAC) system. This is a major release with new features, new hardware support, …
Apache HTTP Server 2.4 released
Celebrating its 17th anniversary with an all-time record of nearly 400 million Websites powered worldwide, the Apache Software Foundation announced version 2.4 of the Apache …
yaSSL offers new open source security tools
yaSSL has made IT-level security tools available for the open source community, ensuring that mature, advanced security tools like Kerberos, wpa_supplicant, and OpenSSH are …
Trend Micro makes HijackThis open source
Trend Micro released HijackThis as an open source application. The code, originally written in Visual Basic, is now officially available at SourceForge. HijackThis scans your …
Open source tool detects videoconferencing equipment vulnerabilities
Videoconferencing equipment has been in the news recently for its potential for use by attackers to snoop on confidential company meetings, view charts mounted on meeting room …
Open source password manager gets two-factor authentication
Yubico announced a successful implementation of YubiKey two-factor authentication with the free, open source password manager software Password Safe. The joint solution offers …
Web app security scanner Netsparker 2.1 released
Netsparker can crawl, attack and identify vulnerabilities in all custom web applications regardless of the platform and the technology it’s built on, just like an actual …
Satellite telephony encryption cracked
Satellite telephony was thought to be secure against eavesdropping. Researchers at the Horst G?¶rtz Institute for IT-Security (HGI) at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) have …
(IN)SECURE Magazine issue 33 released
(IN)SECURE Magazine is a free digital security publication discussing some of the hottest information security topics. Issue 33 has been released today. Table of contents: …
Apache Shiro: Java security framework
Apache Shiro is a Java security framework that performs authentication, authorization, cryptography, and session management. With Shiro’s API, you can secure any …
Security analysis tool Trisul 2.3 released
Trisul is a new kind of network monitor that supplements fine grained traffic metering with flows, packets, and alerts. You can carry out any kind of network and security …
PoC exploits for Linux privilege escalation bug published
The publication of proof-of-concept exploit code for a recently spotted privilege escalation flaw (CVE-2012-0056 ) in the Linux kernel has left Linux vendors scrambling to …
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