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Vista/7 more secure than Linux and Mac OS X

http://blogs.zdnet.com

Operating system security is always a hotly contended subject, and last week Microsoft amped up the hype by claiming that Windows Vista and the soon-to-be-released 7 is the world’s most secure OS, beating both Linux and Mac OS X.

Here’s what Microsoft’s chief operating officer Kevin Turner had to say at the MidMarket CIO Summit last week:

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7 ways to boost your Linux Security

http://www.linuxadda.com

Ask a network administrator in any large organisation to compare Linux with network operating systems like Windows NT or Novell Open Enterprise Server, and chances are he’ll admit that Linux is an inherently more stable and scalable solution.

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Created by bluecheese 13 years 6 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 6 weeks ago
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Backtrack security testing distro another great tool to convince people of Linux

http://www.handlewithlinux.com

Many times I have experienced windows system administrators who just didn't care about Linux.
These people are not against Linux, they just don't have very much of an opinion about it.

If I try to convince someone like that, I can take my whole live just trying to convince them to even try it.
But I found a way to make them experience Linux.

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Created by j00p34 13 years 6 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 6 weeks ago
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Insecurity Through Obscurity

http://boycottnovell.com

Windows renders E-mail chaotic and the U.S. electrical grid gets cracked. Nothing beats a brand-new explanation from Microsoft itself about the impact of its poor security skills, which continue to this date.

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Created by komrad 13 years 6 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 6 weeks ago
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Cherokee: Why it could own the Internet

http://fosswire.com

I've typically been pretty conservative when choosing a web server. Typically, I'll use Apache to run most sites, and possibly Lighttpd for static files. Experimenting never really has been something done with a web server once I'm past the initial setup.

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Created by australianrose 13 years 7 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 7 weeks ago
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Are you safe? Internet security on Linux, don't fool yourself!

http://www.handlewithlinux.com

The other day a friend came to me with a problem, he had been surfing the internet for information about the conficker worm virus. As he misspelled the name as configer virus he didn't find a lot of real information on this virus. What he did find was a lot of links to site which were indicated by google as harmful to your computer.

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Fedora 11 beta beefs up Linux security

http://www.computerworlduk.com

The latest beta of The Fedora Project's Linux includes new security, desktop and developer features that offer a glimpse of the direction Red Hat could take with its enterprise Linux distribution.

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Created by laloj 13 years 7 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 7 weeks ago
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Introducing pyttpd

http://blog.peijnik.at

This article introduces pyttpd - a Python webserver. The article is mainly about the basic ideas behind pyttpd, being based on the principle of privilege separation. So far the project is in its early planning phase and there is no code to show, but the article might be still interesting to read.

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Python everywhere: conficker scanner

http://blog.peijnik.at

This is the first in a series about how versatile Python is and the many use-cases for this scripting language.

The first article covers the use of Python for the conficker scanner by Tillmann Werner of honeynet.org.

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Create a firewall that opens for you to go in, and then closes again

http://www.go2linux.org

This firewall works like the open sesame, of the Sherezade 1001 nights, it opens whit the right "words" (ports), and then close again, so you can let the firewall normally close, and still connect from any IP when you are abroad.

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Created by ggarron 13 years 8 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 8 weeks ago
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New firewall for the Linux kernel

http://www.h-online.com

The Netfilter development team's Patrick McHardy has released an alpha version of nftables, a new firewall implementation for the Linux kernel, with a user space tool for controlling the firewall.

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Created by goofy 13 years 9 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 9 weeks ago
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Has GNU/Linux Won Pwn2Own Again?

http://boycottnovell.com

GNU/Linux is a no-show, but it was last year's winner

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Created by komrad 13 years 9 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 9 weeks ago
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Understanding what it is to be open source.

http://blog.hydrasystemsllc.com

Yesterday afternoon I was speaking with a local administrator of one of the companies that I work for and in the past we had discussed topics such as GNU/Linux among other technical things but certain “concerns” always seem to come back up, not only with him but also other Microsoft using technical individuals that assume open source is bad, against Microsoft and anything good, and/or insecure

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Created by extra 13 years 10 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 10 weeks ago
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'Firefox Web Developer' is a hidden security gem

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com.au

Have you ever come across a situation where you've needed a tool but didn't think you had the right one to get the job done?... Now shift into the application security mindset and voila, there's Firefox Web Developer: an unlikely "security testing" tool but one that serves the purpose very well.

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Created by balugani 13 years 11 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 11 weeks ago
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7 Ways to Stop Uncle Sam from Spying On You

http://abcnews.go.com

You say you have no secrets. Your life's an open book. You have nothing to hide. But still, do you really want to make it easy for Uncle Sam -- or anyone else for that matter -- to rifle through your contact lists, read your e-mails or monitor your cash flow? Probably not.
But privacy advocates say it's never been easier for the government to collect information about you.

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Created by akf 13 years 11 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 11 weeks ago
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