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Thursday, January 10, 2008

InfoWorld Daily: Outing open source security flaws

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Thursday, Jan 10, 2008
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Table Of Contents:


* Outing open source security flaws
* InfoWorld Daily Podcast
* Corporate interests, communism, and the greater good

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OUTING OPEN SOURCE SECURITY FLAWS

Security: Indeed, they're in there. Security holes and vulnerabilities
lurking throughout open source programs. Source code analysis specialist
Coverity, in fact, has unearthed some 7,800 such defects since kicking
off its investigation, under contract from the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security, in March, 2006. Those flaws span 11 major open source
projects. Amanda, Perl, PHP, Python and Samba, just to name the most
well-known. "DHS got involved in the process and awarded the contract
under the idea that the work to secure ...
More of this blog at:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/daily/archives/2008/01/outing_open_sou.html?source=NLC-DAILY&cgd=2008-01-10

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INFOWORLD DAILY PODCAST

Networks Solutions stands firm on practice of automatically generating
domain names that have been searched for, EU drops antitrust probe into
Apple, former OLPC CTO looks to create $75 laptop, and more LISTEN!

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More of this blog at:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/daily/archives/2008/01/infoworld_daily_491.html?source=NLC-DAILY&cgd=2008-01-10

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CORPORATE INTERESTS, COMMUNISM, AND THE GREATER GOOD

Careers: "The world of commerce is the world of laws, regulations,
contracts and negotiations. Employees should place the greater good
ahead of their own interests only to the extent that the corporation
structures things so that employees who do so are more successful than
those who don't," Bob Lewis responds to readers calling him out on an
earlier post, criticizing Lewis for being too harsh in labeling those
who help others as communists. A greater good discussion. "'Right' and
'wrong' aren't easily ...
More of this blog at:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/daily/archives/2008/01/corporate_inter.html?source=NLC-DAILY&cgd=2008-01-10

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SECURITY CHALLENGES IN HEALTH CARE

As hospital networks become larger, more remotely accessible and
more complicated, security becomes a major concern. This white paper
from Blue Lane Technologies addresses the unique challenges of
security in health care and how to best secure these increasingly
vulnerable systems.

http://www.accelacomm.com/jlp/newsletter/13/80251209/

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The InfoWorld Daily podcast provides readers with up-to-the-minute news
and features that shape the world of enterprise IT. Tom Sullivan reports
on the leading news and events that shape the today's IT community.

http://www.infoworld.com/weblog/podcasts/new_podcasts_index.html

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