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The frugal CSO
Last month a gave a short presentation on free and low cost security tools to the Ottawa chapter of ISSA. The slides are now available: The Frugal CSO: IT Security Tools for Tough Times (pdf). This presentation was to raise awareness of the availability and quality of some of the leading free / open source [...]
Read the rest of this entry...Red Hat Enterprise Linux vs Oracle Enterprise Linux
What exactly are the advantages of Oracle Linux? Why use it? Lately I’ve been helping a group transition from a legacy HP/UX environment to Linux. Being an Oracle shop, they’re tempted to use Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) instead of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to run the Oracle DBMS on. You may recall Oracle released [...]
Read the rest of this entry...Happy 20th birthday Perl
According to perlbuzz.com and Wired News , December 18th 2007 marks the 20th anniversary of release 1.0 of Perl, my favorite programming language. These days Perl is most often thought of as the first “web programming” language. Back in 1994 or so when public access to the Internet first took off, just about every web [...]
Read the rest of this entry...Cheap supercomputing from your graphics card
The folks at Russian firm ElcomSoft are making headlines this week by releasing one of their brute force password cracking tools that uses nVidia graphic processing units to boost performance by 25 times. (You may recall ElcomSoft from 2001 when an employee was arrested during Defcon. He was eventually acquitted. The case was an early [...]
Read the rest of this entry...ClamAV bought by Snort vendor Sourcefire
Get good results in one little bake-off and you get bought out? Sourcefire , the little company behind the open source Snort intrusion prevention has just acquired the open source ClamAV anti-virus project: “Sourcefire has acquired the ClamAV project and related trademarks, as well as the source code copyrights held by the five principal members [...]
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