Tresys Technology, a provider of technology and services for customers with high security requirements, today announces it has donated hosting for the Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) upstream repository. The repository provides a central point for the development of SELinux and serves as the foundation for the integration of SELinux features into all major Linux distributions. It contains the source code and related resources for SELinux.

The Computing Technology Industry Association  (CompTIA), the leading provider of vendor-neutral certifications for the world’s technology workforce, today announced it will soon begin the process of updating its CompTIA Linux+ certification.

In this webinar David Maxwell, Coverity's open source strategist as well as an open source developer on the NetBSD project as he reviews how the open source projects at the Scan site have leveraged static analysis to improve their code.

By the means of a zero-day vulnerability in Apple's Safari 3.1 Web browser, the team of researches from Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), was able to hack a MacBook Air in two minutes. There’s no way this  can be auspicious for Mac OS X's status regarding security.

The U.S. National Security Agency has released its own version of the open-source computer operating system Linux, which offers enhanced security for users.

Red Hat Certificate System was acquired from AOL three years ago as part of the Netscape technology acquisition. In keeping with the commitment to open source software, today Red Hat has released all of the source code to Red Hat Certificate System.

Comodo announced today the commercial release of Trustix™ Enterprise Firewall version 4.8, (TEF) a free enterprise class LINUX-based firewall solution. Trustix™ Enterprise Firewall delivers a high performance firewall that monitors network traffic and protects the network against unauthenticated traffic or login attempts which could inject Trojans, worms, or infected files into the network.

One year after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias 'etch' and nearly three years after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias 'sarge' the security support for the old distribution (3.1 alias 'sarge') is coming to an end next month.

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the 7-STABLE branch which introduces many new features along with many improvements to functionality present in the earlier branches. Some of the highlights:

Security researchers have uncovered "critical" security flaws in a version of the Linux kernel used by a large number of popular distributions.The three bugs allow unauthorized users to read or write to kernel memory locations or to access certain resources in certain servers, according to a SecurityFocus advisory.