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One of the selling points of open source software is that having so many eyes combing through the code makes it more secure than its proprietary cousins. That claim took a hit this week, as Fortify’s Softare released a study that claims widely used open source packages have significant vulnerabilities.
The survey, which was conducted on […]

Coverage of government cyber security initiatives is a bit disconcerting because there isn’t a lot of information available. The big budget numbers in the news and federal press releases mean little without knowing precisely what the money is being spend on.
Thus, it is important to read between the lines of this Washington Post story. The largest […]

It’s possible to forget the astonishing amount of spam that floats through the Internet, slowing and degrading the electronic system just as surely as cholesterol gums up a human body. The biggest difference, perhaps, between spam and cholesterol is that there is no “good” spam.
Questionable analogies aside, spam remains a mind-numbingly big problem. This week, […]

When news of a technical problem that could have significant impact on businesses breaks, all executives can do is wait until the experts tell them whether it truly is a big deal, if a fix is imminent, or if the industry is in the soup.
The news in this case, as reported in InfoWorld, is that […]

Last week, I described various problems being encountered by the traditional antivirus industry. The genesis of the post was a story at ZDNet that said the firm n.runs AG found more than 800 vulnerabilities in AV software. As the saying goes, with friends like these…
I cited comments from Brian Krebs of Bit9, a whitelist vendor. […]