I get a lot of security predictions pitched at me and I was intrigued by quite a few this year. There’s good and bad news, and good and bad predictions. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Day: December 17, 2013
German coalition favors German-owned or open source software, aims to lock NSA out
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•Germany’s new coalition government listed open source software among its IT policy priorities, and said it will take steps to protect its citizens against espionage threats from the NSA and other foreign intelligence agencies. Source: Tech
What a Successful Exploit of a Linux Server Looks Like
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•Andre’ DiMino Like most mainstream operating systems these days, fully patched installations of Linux provide a level of security that requires a fair amount of malicious hacking to overcome. Those assurances can be completely undone by a single unpatched application, as Andre’ DiMino has demonstrated when he documented an Ubuntu machine in his lab being…
Linux in the Mainstream: Growing Deployment of Business-Critical Workloads
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•This IDC whitepaper takes a look at the growth of Linux as a server operating system and how deployment form factors have changed over time. Today, commercial Linux has become a key platform across many workloads. This paper considers both workload data and the ecosystem that has grown up to support the opportunity for Linux…
March Communications Launches New Services, Expands Client Roster
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•March Communications unveils three new service areas and announces the addition of nine new clients as 2013 ends on a high. Source: Tech
Fedora 20 is here — an early Linux Christmas present
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•Many Linux users have been holding their breath in anticipation for the 20th version of Fedora Linux, codenamed Heisenbug. Source: Tech
The Definitive VoIP Quick Start Guide: Introducing PBX in a Flash 2.0.6.5.0
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•What a difference a year makes in the VoIP World! We now have a rock-solid, reliable Asterisk 11 release and an equally stable FreePBX 2.11 on which to build state-of-the-art VoIP servers. Source: Tech