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McAfee's open source statements are fighting words to Matt Asay

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2008-04-15 08:47:01 by HASH0x8b572d0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...source and out comes the Utah bulldog from the dog house straining to break free of his leash. Now Matt is saying that the McAfee folks have libeled open source in a recent white paper they released on botnets. Here is the quote in question Taking the bot controller offline may kill a botnet. As a result, many bots use a Dynamic Domain Name...
 
 
 
 
 
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Contributing To Open Source Software Security

2008-05-05 11:38:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...source software plays a critical role in the operation of the Internet. The security of open source software is therefore quite important, as it often interacts with personal information -- ranging from credit card numbers to medical records -- that needs to be kept safe. There has been a long-lived discussion on whether open source software...
 
 
 
 
 
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1st Source Bank reissues all debit cards in response to breach

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2008-06-05 09:09:56 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Source Bank Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Customers Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Debit card information including Track 2 data contained on magnetic stripes and some PIN numbers Breach Description South Bend, Ind.-based 1st Source Bank is reissuing its entire portfolio of debit cards after a hacker or hackers broke...
 
 
 
 
 
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Train keeps a rollin' around open source

2008-01-29 07:34:20 by HASH0x8b75cb4 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...source these days. In fact financing and M&A around open source seems to be boiling over. George Dearing in this article in Information Week talks about recent funding of Alfresco and Automattic (the people behind WordPress). Then just a few days ago Nokia bought Trolltech for 150 million. As in any deal that involves open source companies...
 
 
 
 
 
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Trend vs Barracuda - its not about open source, its about the money!

2008-06-13 22:39:19 by HASH0x8c11980 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...source community suit. From Chen's answer it seems Trend was taken totally by surprise by Barracuda's aggressive PR and their ability to turn elements of the open source community against Trend. The pity for Trend is that Chen actually does make clear the difference between just Clam AV being a virus scanner and the way Barracuda uses Clam AV...
 
 
 
 
 
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Trend vs Barracuda - its not about open source, its about the money!

2008-06-13 23:39:19 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...source community suit. From Chen's answer it seems Trend was taken totally by surprise by Barracuda's aggressive PR and their ability to turn elements of the open source community against Trend. The pity for Trend is that Chen actually does make clear the difference between just Clam AV being a virus scanner and the way Barracuda uses Clam AV...
 
 
 
 
 
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New Open-Source DNS Server Supports DNSSEC

2008-05-20 10:35:23 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...source recursive DNS server. It's an important program. Unbound is so-named to contrast it to BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) , the overwhelmingly most popular recursive DNS (Domain Name System) server on the Internet. But BIND, which is also open source, is not many people's favorite program. It has a long history of serious security...
 
 
 
 
 
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Further reflections on Trend, Barracuda and open source

2008-01-30 23:48:58 by HASH0x8b2d2d8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...source so much as it is about gateway anti-virus. Upon further reflection though I am not as sure. Here are some other facts to consider 1. ClamAV may have as many as 1 million users downloaded updates daily. This makes them at least a potential formidable competitor to Trend. One that I am sure Trend would like to see go away because they...
 
 
 
 
 
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Barracuda defends open source AV from Trend, where is the calvary?

2008-01-29 19:28:34 by HASH0x8b631ac in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...source Clam AV product in their appliances and Trend says their use violates the patent. Evidently this little tiff has been going on for some time, with Trend filing a complaint with the US International Trade Commission in addition to the conventional law suits. Trend also claims that their position here is well established and several...