Well after a day or two of playing with ScribeFire I have decided that while it is a handy tool to have handy it has a major drawback that might deter some users. That being the pain it is to post pictures. While it is easy to post them if you have a link handy, [...]
Spammers have decided to kill two birds with one spam: The stock-touting e-mail messages regularly sent out by spam-focused bot nets have started to include links to malicious code, according to a report published Wednesday by e-mail security firm MessageLabs.
The criminal groups responsible for the spam appear to believe that recipients of the [...]
Some folks love life on the edge, so they run Debian Unstable, or the newest Ubuntu or Fedora releases. These are all wonderful Linux distributions, and under most circumstances are reliable enough. You’ll run into weird dependency issues, or find out the hard way that the latest release of an application has a few problems, [...]
Open source software — it’s fast, it’s popular, it’s practical, and, best of all, it’s free. Chances are you’re using some of it somewhere in your enterprise; in fact, you’re probably using it in multiple places. One of the most frequent questions security professionals get asked is how open source software compares to its [...]
DistroWatch.com, for years a staple of the Linux information scene for its coverage of distribution development, today posted a new “Top Ten Distributions” page. The list provides a few paragraphs of general information and history for each distro, plus a brief list of fast facts.
(while the list is nice it has it’s faults if [...]
