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Theo de Raadt, the founder and leader of the OpenBSD project personally believes that the now-defunct Network Security Technology (NetSec) company did attempt to write backdoors in the BSD code base. Read more...

Security research Kris Kaspersky plans to demonstrate how processor bugs can be leveraged to remotely attack a computer with nothing more than JavaScript or TCP/IP packets. The scary thing here Read more...

Continuous testing during a project's development is the most important indicator of whether you will deliver a relatively bug-free, quality product. Even post-deployment, periodic testing is Read more...

When it comes to dealing with software, sometimes breaking the rules makes sense. For example, forget the idea that software must always be financed from the capital expenditures budget rather Read more...

Although most companies still rely on vendor-created software to develop key internal systems, a growing number of organizations are branching out into the world of open-source, where the Read more...

Citing compatibility and security concerns, some IT professionals plan to delay upgrading their users to Microsoft Vista. The results, detailed in a survey by Zoomerang for security vendor Bit9, Read more...

If you've discovered code that creates a security vulnerability in Microsoft's newest operating system Vista, you could be rewarded with some big bucks. VeriSign iDefense Labs is launching another Read more...

Oracle is taking a page from the book of Microsoft, issuing its first-ever "Critical Patch Update Pre-Release Announcement." The alert maps out what the vendor is doing in terms of fixes which are Read more...

Symantec is still spending some time looking at the upcoming Vista system, identifying some bugs and security issues. This week it's focused on relating how the Microsoft OS has some security Read more...

While the beta version of Vista is still a bit buggy, one Windows developer/consultant says Microsoft is doing more than an adequate job at trying to resolve and clean up the bugs as beta testers Read more...