Symantec exploits journalists' ignorance, but there is at least one news site (PC World) that claims Symantec is lying

Bitbucket goes offline due to a distributed denial of service attack (botnets)

Windows botnets grow, new flaws are found and the proposed solutions are ludicrous

Symantec already faces a formidable foe in Microsoft Corp. But now, the security and storage company must also defend itself from Red Hat Inc. and the open source market. In fact, Red Hat has launched an aggressive attack against Symantec’s Veritas business. Here’s the scoop.

Listen man, if you wanna talk about ignorance you're gonna have to learn what the term "ignorance" really means first.

In order to sell some products, Symantec spreads GNU/Linux fear based on misinformation

Brad Spengler, the developer behind the Grsecurity project, has published an exploit for a vulnerability in the Tun interface in Linux kernel 2.6.30 and 2.6.18, used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5), which can be exploited by attackers to obtain root privileges. Of particular interest is the fact that the exploit is even able to circumvent security extensions such as SELinux.

Nowadays, many machines are running with 2-4 gigabytes of RAM, and their owners are discovering a problem: When they run 32-bit GNU/Linux distributions, their extra RAM is not being used. Fortunately, correcting the problem is only a matter of installing or building a kernel with a few specific parameters enabled or disabled.

Microsoft's problem with competition on the cloud, zero cost at China, and botnets