September 3, 2010

Tom Shinder on “hardware” firewalls

Tom Shinder of ISAServer.org takes an amusing shot at the myth in some circles that a “hardware” firewall or “firewall appliance” offers more security than a Microsoft ISA Server firewall. I was drawn to a particular quote in his article about the relative security of ISA Server to other popular firewalls in the context of [...]

Security hole found in OpenBSD

A second security hole in the OpenBSD kernel…. in the last 10 years. Talk about a solid OS. read more | digg story

OpenBSD (I like it)

I’m a big fan of OpenBSD.  I decided one day a few years ago to have a crack at this operating system that had such a reputation for security, since security is of much interest to me.  I printed out the installation guide from the website, dusted off an old P-90 with 32mb of RAM [...]