Firefox 3.6: Speed, Look, and Video
Jan 22, 2010The Mozilla Firefox 3.6 browser is now available and provides performance improvements and numerous technical enhancements.
more »Special Patch for IE Security Hole, Users Move to Firefox
Jan 21, 2010Microsoft has decided to issue a special patch outside its usual patchday rhythm for all its Internet Explorer versions to close a severe vulnerability issue. Downloads of Firefox have accordingly skyrocketed.
more »ApacheCon Presentations in Free Streaming Archive
Nov 24, 2009The Apache Foundation had its big conference November 2-6 in Portland OR and Linux Pro Magazine was there with its camera. To celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the foundation, some highlights from the comprehensive program of talks are available for free in our video archives now.
more »Introduction The sys admin's daily grind: Httptunnel
Sep 30, 2009Just a couple of hours after completing this article, Charly headed off on vacation. Before he left, he indulged in a spot of piercing to help him work around the paranoid firewalls waiting for him in the Internet cafes at his holiday location.
more »Intrusion Prevention Intro Understanding, detecting, and preventing network attacks
Aug 31, 2009This month we look into the intruder's toolkit and investigate some prudent counter-measures for detecting and preventing attacks.
more »Security Update for Mozilla Mail Products
Jun 24, 2009Security fixes address a few vulnerabilities in Mozilla Thunderbird and SeaMonkey.
more »Ratproxy The Ratproxy security scanner looks for vulnerabilities in web applications
Mar 31, 2009Google's Ratproxy is a free testing tool that searches for security problems in web applications.
more »Insecure Candidates: Chrome Wins Hacking Contest
Mar 23, 2009At the CanSecWest Vancouver 2009 conference's PWN2OWN hacker's competition the Safari, Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox browsers were successfully hacked to run code on their systems. The Chrome browser was recognized as being the least impacted by the hackers.
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