As a reader of The Chronicle, you almost certainly use a computer. And odds are that your computer runs an operating system developed by Microsoft, like Windows XP. A growing number of computer ...

As the popularity of Linux continues to increase, so does its attack surface. For organizations, this brings to light a pressing question: Who is responsible for the security of all the Linux ...

After many months of painstaking effort, the problems caused by Microsoft’s Windows 8 “Secure Boot” technology are finally being solved for Linux users. Now, the capability is quickly spreading, and ...

We have recently switched over to linux in some of the departments at a medical university, and there seems to be a lot of Linux-FUD going around with these NT "Gurus". We had written an email telling ...

Facepalm: Microsoft recently released its latest batch of monthly security updates for Windows and other software products. However, a bug fix designed to address a Secure Boot vulnerability ...

Where I am now is that, I have figured out how to disable Secure Boot (I assumed it just couldn't be done, thus I didn't look closely enough. The UEFI looked really simple, and knowing this is ...

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"Security through obscurity" may be a catchy phrase, but it's not the only thing that's catching among Windows users. “Security through obscurity” may be a catchy phrase, but it’s not the only thing ...

Software maker Trustix AS this week formally unveiled a deal with IBM to jointly market and sell its secure Linux software in the U.S. on hardware from Big Blue. Trustix, of Trondheim, Norway, ...

The U.K. Cabinet Office and IBM are working together on a secure open-source environment for public and private sector organizations. The Central Sponsor for Information Assurance (CSIA) said this ...

Let’s start off the week by taking a new look at Linux (I’m hoping Phil Hochmuth, who writes our Linux newsletter, won’t mind if we intrude on his domain. You probably should subscribe to his work, ...

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