Some days ago, I mentioned that IDC numbers indicate that Linux loses market shares to Windows Server. There is...
Impressive 90 days Vista vulnerability report or counting trap?
Last week, when I reported about this new Symantec study comparing different operating systems with respect to the vulnerabilities...
New Symantec study: Is Windows the securest OS?
Symantec has just published their new Internet Security Threat Report. They compared Microsoft, Red Hat, Apple, HP and Sun....
Content spam DDOS attacks on 4sysops
You might have realized in the past days that 4sysops was unreachable sometimes. There have been content spam attacks...
WebDrive and SftpDrive: Map a Linux folder to a Windows network drive letter using SSH/SFTP
If your desktop machine runs Windows and you have to edit files on a Linux server, then you usually...
Poptop: Linux VPN server for Windows clients using PPTP
Poptop is an open source VPN server supporting Microsoft's PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol). It allows you to use a...
Antivirus tools for Linux – Virus threat to Linux on the rise
I just read in the German magazine Computerwoche (print) that the number of Linux viruses doubled in 2005 (863)...
Is Windows more secure than Linux now?
Jeff Jones complains about Linux advocates making a baseless assertion that Linux is more secure than Windows. To prove...
Blocking brute force attacks under Linux
Marius Ducea discussed three ways how to block brute force attacks under Linux using iptables, PAM and fail2ban. All...
Centeris Likewise: manage Linux from a Windows box
Many Windows admins turn up their nose when it comes to Linux system administration. Although there are good graphical...
GNU Midnight Commander: Norton Commander for Linux
If you are old enough, you might remember the time when it was quite usual to work on the...







