Stories about: OpenBSD

IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without asking, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) Japan IT manager Mark Uemura.

The use of open-source operating systems in enterprise servers is growing in Japan, with companies citing low introduction costs as the main factor for adoption, according to a recent report by the Japanese government.

Businesses interested in VPNs need not spend any money to find out more, because there is a wealth of open source VPN code available with which to experiment.

Underscoring the need to secure information be it on a handheld device or a server, Kaspersky Lab released a slew of security products at the Cebit technology fair in Hanover last week.

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

When the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s (AIHW) IT manager Justin Dorman faced ongoing security and integration issues with proprietary infrastructure software, he made a decision to adopt a selection of open source tools which he said get the job done with a good level of support.

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.

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

This year’s Australian Unix Users Group (AUUG) conference will strengthen its coverage of information security, including spam prevention and secure programming, in addition to the usual “grab bag” of technical content, according to president-elect David Purdue.

Linux and Unix vendors are releasing fixes for a critical bug in the popular Web server Apache that could allow attackers to crash the system or execute malicious code.

A team of open-source developers has released software which emulates the PowerPC processor architecture and enables users to run Mac OS and some Unix OSes on PCs powered by Intel x86-architecture processors.