Stories about: OpenBSD

Apple's patching process proves that the company isn't serious about moving Macs into the enterprise, security researchers said Monday.

More than 3600 vulnerabilities discovered last year remain un-patched, according to a study.

The phreaks are already phishing the Web 2.0 waters of 2008, and the catch will be new Vista users, P2P users and social networkers.

A hacker managed to break into a Mac and win a US$10,000 prize as part of a contest started at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver.

It happened again! I got into yet another argument...er...heated discussion over the security of Microsoft Windows versus some other operating system. Usually it starts with some reader's knee-jerk emotional reaction -- saying "Windows sucks!" or something like that.

Microsoft has won agreement with PC makers to add a fundamental change at the BIOS level to improve security in Windows Vista.

Usability of security software is partly to blame for low protection levels in many computers, according to international security experts.

With security the focus of this year's Australian Unix Users Group (AUUG) conference, OpenBSD founder and project lead Theo de Raadt was invited to speak on exploit mitigation techniques. In an exclusive interview with Computerworld's Rodney Gedda, the man behind an operating system that lays claim to only one remote exploit in the default install in seven years, reveals where we are headed - and how far we have to go - in the search for more secure software

Microsoft's new focus on security is paying off, but the company still has a long way to regain its customers' trust, according to the company's security program manager, Jesper Johansson.

Continuing exploits and Internet Information Services Secure Sockets Layer vulnerabilities have not deterred one of Australia's largest financial institutions from using the Web server.