Security professionals need to be aware of metrics like percent of patch saturation over time and security events by demographic, as well as other key measuring points.
Security professionals need to be aware of metrics like percent of patch saturation over time and security events by demographic, as well as other key measuring points.
<b>Jim Lynch: </b>"I don't know about you but I've been amused at the amount of coverage in the media about Sony pulling the plug on alternative operating systems on the PS3."
<b>Howtoforge:</b> "This tutorial shows how to harden PHP5 with Suhosin on a CentOS 5.4 server. From the Suhosin project page: "Suhosin is an advanced protection system for PHP installations that was designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in PHP applications and the PHP core."
<b>Dedoimedo:</b> "Welcome to the sixth article in the long series on Kernel crash collection and analysis. We have started the series with LKCD, an older utility, followed by a very long review of Kdump, both of which are available as PDF guides, free for download. "
<b>Daniweb:</b> "This post is a summary of a conversation I had the other day with an acquaintance of mine. It started out with him asking me what I do for a living and ended up with me having to choke back tears of laughter."
Tip of the Trade: If you find yourself using the same commands over and over between Vim session, it's time to consider permanently saving your macros.
<b>Linux Planet:</b> "Linux was a resounding failure on netbooks, so what makes this French start-up firm think it can succeed with an Ubuntu Linux derivative?"
It can be hard, as an Oracle Database administrator, to expand your PL/SQL skills due to a lack of good examples, not to mention that lines upon lines of syntax definitions can be somewhat of a turn-off. Steve Callan moves beyond the mundane to look at using a composite data type.
Tip of the Trade: Finding a way to ignore files or directories in Subversion so they are not included in svn status output is easy; figuring out the exact syntax is not. Here's are way to simplify this Linux server management quagmire.
A Microsoft-sponsored survey found IT security organizations aren't spending enough protecting trade secrets and other key bits of confidential corporate information.
Windows management has a prime place in system monitoring and administration irrespective of the technology being used. The suppleness that is achieved using the Windows management native API's are far more than that which could be achieved through other kinds of monitoring and administration application.
<b>Hardware Central:</b> "Intel has announced a new multi-core processor, and the fact that it was introduced at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) instead of the consumer-oriented Computex show taking place at the same time should be an indication of its target market."
Across businesses and governments, one country to the next, the fight against hackers and cyberattackers is a multifront war, and a new global survey suggests that people just aren't talking to each other.
<b>Enterprise Networking Planet:</b> "What happened to the old "sysadmin" of just a few years ago? We've split what used to be the sysadmin into application teams, server teams, storage teams, and network teams."
<b>The Register: </b>"Apple Safari's new "make web go away" button is based on an open source project distributed under the Apache 2 license. And that's news to the open sourcers."
<b>everyday linux how2s: </b>"The latest in the 4.x series of the KDE Software Compilation is due to be released in early August 2010. With the first beta of this release recently unleashed, I thought I'd download the openSuse packages and see what 4.5's got in store for us."
<b>Marcel Gagnéamp;#60;/b> "She was directed to me by a colleague of mine who suggested that I might just be the sort of person she wanted to talk to. Specifically, she wanted tech-savvy parents so she could find out how they explain copyright violations to their children."