Adobe Reader and Acrobat Security Updates

May 13, 2009

Adobe has released security updates for its PDF Reader and Acrobat 9.1 and earlier versions.

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Sun Developer on the Security of OpenOffice

May 13, 2009

In a recent blog, Sun developer Malte Timmermann took a position on the security concerns of the Ecole Superieure d'Informatique, Electronique, Automatique (ESIEA) in Paris-Laval, France. The subject was the vulnerability of OpenOffice, involving document macros, for example.

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KMIP: OASIS Group for Crypto Standards with IBM and Sun

May 07, 2009

IBM, Sun Microsystems, PGP, Red Hat and other firms have formed a standards working group in the OASIS organization to develop a new Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) for encryption key management.

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Pest Control: Free Virus Scanner AVG 8.5

May 07, 2009

AVG Technologies has released a new version of its virus scanner for Linux as AVG 8.5. Biggest features are its malware protection, improved virus filter and on-access scanner based on the RedirFS filesystem.

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FreeIPA Integrated identity management with FreeIPA

Apr 30, 2009

FreeIPA offers integrated identity management and big ideas for the future.

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Security Lessons File and protocol attacks

Apr 30, 2009

We explain how file or protocol fuzzing leads to direct improvements in code quality. You'll also learn more about available open source fuzzing tools.

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Adobe Reader Under Threat

Apr 27, 2009

Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco 2009, chief security officer of F-Secure, Mikko Hypponen, advised against the use of Adobe's Acrobat and recommended users switch to an open source PDF reader.

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ISC Begins BIND 10 Development

Apr 27, 2009

After 10 years the industry-independent Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) is embarking on a completely new BIND implementation with BIND 10. Its patrons and sponsors should ensure that the market leader in DNS implementation is more secure, flexible and highly scalable, although developers are keeping the details close to their chests at present.

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