Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Chapter 13, "Kernel Enhancements", of Linux Firewalls, 3rd Edition, written by Steve Suehring and Robert Ziegler and published by Novell Press. ISBN: ...

The head of security firm Open Source Security, Brad Spengler, says he had little option but to file a lawsuit against open source advocate Bruce Perens, who alleged back in 2017 that security patches ...

Linux kernel patch maker's appeal against Perens' legal costs thrown out Open source advocate Bruce Perens has prevailed in a legal stoush with Open Source Security, the company that offers a patch ...

Finding and fixing Linux security vulnerabilities amounts to the usual whack-a-mole. The real solution is to harden the Linux kernel and let it protect itself Linux has quietly taken over the world.

From yesterday's decision in Open Source Security, Inc. v. Perens (N.D. Cal.): This is a defamation lawsuit. The plaintiffs -- Open Source Security ("OSS") and its CEO Bradley Spangler -- make ...

A major corporation is misusing grsecurity’s trademarks and tarnishing its brand – and as a consequence, the leader of the project said Wednesday, grsecurity will stop making its stable patches ...

TORONTO -- At LinuxCon, Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation's executive director, said "Linux has gone far beyond what anyone could have expected" and that it's been the "most successful software project ...

It took years for the Internet to reach its first 100 computers. Today, 100 new ones join each second. And running deep within the silicon souls of most of these machines is the work of a technical ...

A developer of security software for Linux had some harsh words yesterday for what he sees as a lax attitude toward security in the operating system’s community. “Linux is being presented by ...

Open source programmer Bruce Perens is being sued for defamation after he warned that using Grsecurity's Linux kernel security could invite legal trouble. In June he said that as a customer, it was ...