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Linux vs. Vista: How Does Security Stack Up?

As the five versions of Microsoft Windows' new Vista operating system sit on store shelves, current Windows users are taking their time deciding if they will upgrade from Windows XP or buy new computers with Vista installed. The push for buying Windows Vista follows an epidemic of computer viruses, spyware and adware intrusions and carries the promise of a more secure computing environment...

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Sun Microsystems’ Vipul Gupta: Security Never Rests

Sun Microsystems is an industry leader in network security. It offers its own open source operating system, Solaris, and a Java desktop system ...

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AlterPoint CEO Scott Harmon: Time to Open Device Management

AlterPoint is a network configuration management provider that recently joined the open source ranks with the launch of its ZipTie community -- and are now members of the Open Management Consortium ...

Vista, Hackers, Red Flags and Bulls

Microsoft last week unleashed its six versions of its new operating system, Vista. The software maker's promises of a more robust kernel and built-in security enhancements have created the impression among consumers that third-party security solutions for antivirus, spyware and adware will become a thing of the past ...

Click Fraud: A Growing Nuisance for Web Advertisers, Part 1

Click fraud is a growing problem for online advertisers who rely on paid search services. Marketing experts are urging e-commerce vendors have to take proactive steps to combat it ...

Is E-Commerce Ready for Open Source?

In the years leading up to the dot-com bust, the Internet was unchartered turf to which countless entrepreneurs flocked in pursuit of easy money. Just like the Gold Rush of the Old West in the 1800s, the dot-com business surge had its fling and then fell off ...

Vista: A False Sense of Security?

With the first shipments of the new Microsoft Vista operating system still lingering on store shelves, many consumers may not yet be sure whether Vista's much ballyhooed security enhancements will make them less vulnerable to virus, adware and spyware infections. Microsoft claims its restricted access to the operating system's kernel will lock out hackers and malware purveyors...

Firms to Develop Linux Distro for High-End PCs

Themis Computer announced Thursday a joint project withTerra Soft Solutions to develop a complete Linux distribution to run on the TPPC64, Themis' new line of 6U VMEbus single board computers based on the IBM PowerPC 970FX superscalar RISC processor ...

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Secure Computing CEO McNulty: What Drives the Malware Industry?

Secure Computing has been delivering solutions for Internet security for 20 years. With more than 11,000 global customers, the company offers support by a worldwide network of partners. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has sales offices worldwide ...

Check Point Expands Security Reach With Three Acquisitions

Internet security firm Check Point Software Technologies announced that it has completed the acquisition of NFR Security and is nearing completion of it purchase of Protect Data and Pointsec Mobile Technologies ...

New Centeris Application Unifies Linux, Unix, Windows

Centeris released on Tuesday a product that lets network administrators manage multiple environments on the same computer ...

Internet Franchising: Sure Bet or Risky Business?

Looking for a franchise opportunity? The World Wide Web is overflowing with Internet-based businesses for sale ...

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GroundWork VP Barbagallo: Open Source Taking On the Big Four

GroundWork Open Source develops open source systems and network management software. The company melds together over 180 open source projects, including Cacti, Ganglia, NeDi and Nagios, into a comprehensive, fully supported IT infrastructure and networking monitoring solution ...

Encrypted Virus Code: New Spin on Old Trick?

Some Internet security companies are warning about the dangers they say exist from a new level of cyber attacks based on dynamic code obfuscation. However, makers of top-rated antivirus protection software claim such warnings only amount to a new spin on an old hacker tactic ...

Consumer Electronics: Closing In on Open Source

Chances are that one or more of your consumer products uses the Linux operating system. In order to find out, you'll have to look at the fine print. Manufacturers do not openly advertise with labels announcing "Linux Inside." ...

Columbitech Adds Support for Suse Linux Enterprise Server

Mobile security solutions firmColumbitech announced on Monday support for Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9 and 10 ...

Top 3 Linux Distros – No Easy Choice

"Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" The question seemingly has no real answer, and biologists can argue either reply ad nauseam. The computer world has an equally pervasive question that cannot provide a single answer: ...

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Qlusters CTO on the Datacenter Revolution

Qlusters is the commercial company that sponsors the open source openQRM project. openQRM provisions and manages Linux, Unix and Windows virtual environments and physical servers within the enterprise datacenter ...

Uphill Road for Linux Cell Phones

Telecommunications industry analysts have been evangelizing the arrival of cell phones running on the Linux operating system for the last few years. The sermonizing has recently reached a fevered pitch in some quarters ...

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2007: Biometrics Grows, Storage Shrinks, ‘Free’ Disappears

Making New Year predictions about technology requires a very polished crystal ball ...

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