Bacula Backup Solution Reaches 1 Million Downloads
Jan 26, 2010The open source backup software Bacula has surpassed the 1 million mark in Sourceforge's download statistics.
more »Ted Ts'o Joins Google and Helps with Ext4 Migration
Jan 15, 2010Formerly kernel and file system developer at the Linux Foundation, Theodore Ts'o has been working at Google since January. His first project: The migration of the file system ext4.
more »Adobe Updates Reader and Acrobat to Address Security Problems
Jan 13, 2010Adobe has put its attention to solving the vulnerability problems in its PDF Reader and Acrobat software.
more »License Change at Novell Adds Confusion
Jan 08, 2010The recent mail from Novell titled "Upcoming maintenance requirement to access patches and service packs for select Novell products" only adds confusion for Linux customers. As it turns out, nothing much has changed.
more »Relaxed Flash: Blitzableiter Checks for Malicious Flash Files
Jan 07, 2010On stimulus from the German Federal Agency for Information Security (BSI), Felix "FX" Lindner of the Phenoelit hacker group investigated the security of Flash object code. The result is a free protection program with the name Blitzableiter ("lightning rod").
more »2010 Mails Trigger SpamAssassin
Jan 04, 2010The Apache Project has warned of a bug in versions 3.2.0 to 3.2.5 of SpamAssassin that triggers an excessive number of spam alerts by mails from 2010. Debian Lenny is also infected.
more »26C3: WikiLeaks to Conquer Iceland
Dec 30, 2009The whistleblower project, protected by a cascade of tor servers, over the last months has made public a series of explosive documents. Now it wants to take a step further and plans a technical data model state in the north Atlantic.
more »ClarkConnect Is Now ClearOS: Enterprise 5.1 Available
Dec 24, 2009ClearOS, formerly known as the ClarkConnect distro, with firewall, content filter and fileserver, is now in version 5.1.
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