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(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 is a Java security framework that performs authentication, authorization, cryptography, and session management. With Shiro’s API, you can secure any …

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 …

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 …

Arachni is an open source Web application security scanner framework, a modular framework that allows fast, accurate and flexible vulnerability assessment. In order to …

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.0 that adds many new features. The release is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, …

Thanks to user-friendly distributions like Ubuntu, more people are running Linux than ever before. But many users stick to the GUI and point and click their way through tasks, …

Tails is a live system that aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leave no …

The Apache Software Foundation announced Apache Hadoop 1.0, the open source software framework for scalable, distributed computing. The project’s latest release marks a …

If you're considering a career in penetration testing, you probably already know that BackTrack is the Linux distribution favored by most pentesters due to it being preloaded …

Nmap is a free and open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network …

fwknop implements an authorization scheme called Single Packet Authorization (SPA). This method of authorization is based around a default-drop packet filter (fwknop supports …