OpenBSD releases every half year a new version, usually at 1st of May and 1st of Nov. Now the upcoming version 4.5 has been tagged as BETA which should be available on the OpenBSD mirrors soon. You are invited to check it out and report bugs you find to …
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FreeBSD
FreeBSD 7.1 released
Felix EhlersThe new version brings ULE as the default scheduler, DTrace inside the kernel framework, booting from USB devices, improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client, a new cpuset(2) system call and cpuset(1) command that brings an API for thread to CPU binding and last but not least DVD-sized media …
Security
Secunia PSI 1.0 released
Felix EhlersThe danish computer security service provider has released Secunia PSI (Personal Software Inspector) version 1.0 after a 17 month beta test period. With this software you can identify unpatched and old software that makes your Windows system vulnerable to attacks. Though this is not a complete indicator, Secunia can …
Open Source
Hiawatha 6.10 released, new feature: CSRF protection
Felix EhlersHugo Leisink has released a new version of his webserver hiawatha. The version 6.10 adds CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery) protection. Hiawatha is a secure and light webserver written in C.
Security
Writing Insecure C
Felix EhlersThere's a small series about insecure C programming on the informIT website. David Chisnall shows the pitfalls involved in writing insecure code in C.