Articles - Security

This tutorial will give you a basic idea how to debug a program in Linux using GDB. As you are aware, Visual Studio doesn’t run on Linux so you have to use some of the tools provided on the command-line.

The coming of the next version of the Linux Standard Base will bring a lot of interesting new features, one of which will be the addition of a cryptographic library that independent software vendors will be able to utilize for their applications.

Despite its large code base (over 7 million lines of code), the Linux kernel is the most flexible operating system that has ever been created. It can be tuned for a wide range of different systems, running on everything from a radio-controlled model helicoptor, to a cellphone, to the majority of the largest supercomputers in the world. By customizing the kernel for your specific environment, it is possible to create something that is both smaller and faster than the kernel provided by most Linu... [more]

Samba's Jeremy Allison examines freedom, Linux, and DRM..."Last weekend I finished a home project I’ve been slowly working on for several months. I finally finished converting all the CD’s in my collection from physical media to digital files. It turns out that every CD I ever bought, which now comes to somewhere around 400, fits within 160 gigabytes of storage. It’s hard to buy a new disk that small these days, that’s how much storage capacity has increased.... [more]

Cisco's looking for a few good embedded developers, and it's throwing in fabulous prizes..."Networking giant Cisco is gearing up to expand its Linux platform with a bunch of new hardware. But it won't be a success without developers to build more applications for the platform, so a little romancing is in order.

Fighting malware with anti-virus software may be a losing game. A more winning approach may be a new Linux server tool...

SQL injection attacks can allow hackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands on your database through your Web site. To avoid these attacks, every piece of data supplied by a user on a Web form, through HTTP Post or CGI parameters, or other means, must be validated to not contain information that is not expected. GreenSQL is a firewall for SQL -- it sits between your Web site and MySQL database and decides which SQL statements should and should not be executed. At least that's the idea -- in execu... [more]

Following up on the US government mandate, it looks like Mission Accomplished. No, really..."The Linux Foundation announced this week that all "major" Linux distributions are now in compliance with the federal mandate by U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) that helps ensure the world won't run out of Internet addresses anytime soon.

A review of the Mantis debugging tool finds it more than sufficient for the average developer... "Mantis is that rare bug-tracking program for small projects that is neither too bloated nor too featureless. It's an excellent choice for developers who need a bug tracker that the average computer user can use. Its clean interface and numerous features make bug tracking fast and easy.

A fellow Community Manager hails the virtues of the 5-A-Day bug closing technique..."Firstly, in terms of the success of 5-A-Day, it has been a roaring success so far. I have a graph that measures the workflow of the 5-A-Day team and the curve is constantly growing with over 14000 bugs being touched in 7 months; that is over 2000 bugs on average a month. That is touched bugs, but in terms of actual bona-fide closed bugs, that is over 8000 in 7 months..."... [more]