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The view from the top of IT with TechWorld Editor Rohan Pearce
A study of how 31 popular open-source code libraries were downloaded over the past 12 months found that more than a third of the 1,261 versions of these libraries had a known vulnerability and about a quarter of the downloads were tainted.
By Ellen Messmer | 27 March, 2012 04:45
The claim that the FBI planted a backdoor in OpenBSD a decade ago has been flatly denied by developer protagonists named as having been involved in the conspiracy in an email sent to OpenBSD founder, Theo de Raadt.
By John E Dunn | 17 December, 2010 01:27
A former government contractor says that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation installed a number of back doors into the encryption software used by the OpenBSD operating system.
By Robert McMillan | 16 December, 2010 07:13
The OpenBSD project has announced the availability of release 4.6 which debuts a new mail server and an easier installation among many other feature enhancements and bug fixes for the open source operating system.
By Rodney Gedda | 19 October, 2009 14:30
The April-May 2009 cusp has been a big week for open source BSD operating systems with both OpenBSD 4.5 and NetBSD 5.0 released to the public.
By Rodney Gedda | 01 May, 2009 10:35
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