US software vendor, Barracuda Networks, is looking to fight a software patent claim by Trend Micro with support from the Open Source community.

About one year after the last major release, the Mandriva-based security distribution Annvix has now replaced RSBAC with Apparmor in version 3.0 and updated its collection of programs.

Guardian Digital, a provider of Open Source security solutions, today announced the latest release of EnGarde Secure Linux Community 3.0.18, the world's first Open Source security platform.

Microsoft’s Network Access Protection Plattform (NAP) security function will be available for Linux and the Mac operating system via third party products.

Version 1.1 of Greylite, a greylisting implementation for the Qmail mail server was released a couple of days ago.

Version 1.0.0 of the honeypot daemon Honeytrap has been released. It has a completely reworked configuration mechanism and new plugins.

Version 2.0.2 of the GnuTLS security library does without the TLS authorization extension due to threats of patent claims.

Three security issues have been identified in the Open Source implementation of the SSL/TLS protocol, OpenSSL. The vulnerabilities allow targeted attacks.