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Popular network tool Nmap in CNET security brouhaha

06
Dec
2011

Gordon Lyon is a popular, successful and charismatic open-source software maker. Right now, he’s not a happy man. You probably know him better by his nickname, Fyodor (after Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author of Notes From Undergound). He is the creator and maintainer of the widely-used network auditing and penetration-testing tool Nmap. You probably know Nmap. If […]

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Welcome back, Linux kernel!

04
Oct
2011

Just under a month ago, the official distribution site for the Linux kernel was taken offline following an embarrasing malware incident. The brains behind the Linux kernel discovered malware on the PC of at least one kernel maintainer, as well as on some of the kernel.org servers themselves. (Yes, Linux malware. Not only in the […]

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Linux world in security spinout as Linux Foundation and Kernel.org remain “temporarily unavailable”

12
Sep
2011

The Linux world is in a bit of a security spinout at the moment. Last month, the brains behind the Linux kernel discovered malware on the PC of at least one kernel maintainer, as well as on some of the kernel.org servers themselves. Now, the Linux Foundation, a not-for-profit which bankrolls the main developers of […]

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