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[News] Security Made Better With Free Software; Microsoft Cracked Through Virtual PC

  • Subject: [News] Security Made Better With Free Software; Microsoft Cracked Through Virtual PC
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:34:26 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Firewall Configurations Can Be Hard To Manage, Sounds Like A Job For Open Source

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| For many people network security starts and 
| stops with firewalls. The foundational 
| technology of perimeter based security, 
| firewalls have grown more complex and 
| sophisticated over the years. Today keeping 
| your firewall rule set tuned and managing 
| complex firewall configurations is a job 
| often best left to experts. A new open 
| source tool, Flint offers help though.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/58581

Commtouch to present Open-source Email security

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| Open-source security infrastructure can be 
| taken to the next step by augmenting it 
| with commercial solutions, according to 
| Gabriel Mizrahi, vice president 
| technologies at Commtouch. 
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http://www.ciol.com/Technology/Security/News-Reports/Commtouch-to-present-Open-source-Email-security/133163/0/

Indian Security Startup Offers Free Software

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| The UTM (unified threat management) 
| offering, called Ubiq-Freedom, is available 
| under an open-source license, and includes 
| popular open-source software such as Squid 
| caching proxy for the Web and IP tables for 
| the firewall, said Debasheesh Bagchi [CQ], 
| Wep's program head for Ubiq-Freedom. 
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/191608/indian_security_startup_offers_free_software.html

Microsoft Virtual PC Flaw Lets Hackers Bypass Windows Defenses

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| An exploit writer at Core Security 
| Technologies has discovered a serious 
| vulnerability that exposes users of 
| Microsoftâs Virtual PC virtualization 
| software to malicious hacker attacks.
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http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/microsoft-virtual-pc-flaw-lets-hackers-bypass-windows-defenses-031610


Recent:

One-third of Security Essentials users infected: Microsoft

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| Almost a third of the customers who have
| installed Microsoft's free Security
| Essentials software have been found to be
| suffering from major malware infections.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/28745/53/
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