pfSense has changed considerably since the first generation of the fantastic FreeBSD based firewall platform and with that, 3rd party utilities such as glTail require updated configs and log parsers to restore the ability to visualize pfSense 2 firewall logs since the logging system in...
Most organizations are focusing their patching efforts and vulnerability scanning on the operating system -- but 60 percent of the total number of attacks occur on Web applications, and many attacks are aimed at third-party applications such as Microsoft Office, and Adobe Flash and other...
OpenBSD 4.5 has been released today. This release includes OpenSSH 5.2 as well as various tweaks, bugfixes, and enhancements. New and extended platforms include sparc64, and added device drivers. See the announcement page for a full list...
A bold new type of malware has been identified. Its attack vector is based on hijacking the DNS settings for devices on a local area network. Any device regardless of operating system that depends on an internal or external name server can be affected. The trojan...
Steam Cloud support, which was announced last May, will be released in tangent with Valve's co-op zombie shooter Left 4 Dead demo later this week. Steam Cloud is expected to be compatible with all other Valve Steam releases (including the back catalog) after receiving support...
The Tokeneer research project has been released to the open source community by the US National Security Agency. The main goal of this project was to show how highly secure software can be developed cost-effectively. "Tokeneer has been written in SPARK Ada, a high level programming...
In a survey conducted by Net Applications on 40,000 sites, the results show that more than 8% of computers accessing the web were using Apple Macs. These numbers are only indicative of Macs that are used to access the internet. 8% may seem like a...
In an important milestone for open source, a draft defense authorizing act in Congress includes wording plugging open source software. Both cost and software security appears to be considerations. "It's rare to see a concept as technical as open-source software in a federal funding bill. But...
Via Slashdot From ComputerWorld: "For a technology that has been in stable release since May 22, 2000, PHP 4 has finally reached the end of its official life. With the release of PHP 4.4.9, official support has ended and the final security patch for the platform...
Linux.com has a detailed step by step installation procedure for installing Apache, MySQL and PHP on FreeBSD using the ports collection. Some extra steps are taken to secure the installation and you end up with a nice multifunctional FreeBSD+AMP setup with very little effort....