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64-bits of protection?
LinuxSecurity.com: Joe Faulhaber of the Microsoft Malware Protection Center has made the interesting claim that 64-bit Windows 7 is actually safer than ordinary, 32-bit Windows. He's right. "64-bit Windows [does] has some of the lowest reported malware infection rates in the first half of 2009." But, that's not the whole story.

Google Chrome OS goes open source in Chromium OS
LinuxSecurity.com: Google today has officially open sourced its under-development Chrome OS operating system under the Chromium OS project. The code is available now at: http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/building-chromium-os - I'm currently in the process of trying to build a full system now (so more to come from me soon). Right now the gziped Tarball is 232 MB (pretty small for an OS) and the official build milestone number is 0.4.22.8.

PHP 5.3.1 Security Updates
LinuxSecurity.com: Nearly five months after the release of PHP 5.3.0, the PHP developers have released the first maintenance update to the 5.3 branch of their popular programming language. The PHP 5.3.1 update focuses on stability and includes approximately 100 bug fixes, some of which are security related.

Using a Cisco Router as a "Remote Collector" for tcpdump or Wireshark
LinuxSecurity.com: Have you ever thought about your routers. I mean - *really* thought about them? They think all day long, processing all of the packets in and out of your company's WAN or internet connection, and hardly ever complain. But can you get any useful information out of those packets?

A Linux Security Primer
LinuxSecurity.com: Linux aficionados and computer security experts -- not to mention many IT writers -- are known to use a couple of terms with, well, not-easily-discernable definitions when they talk about Linux security. Problem is, you need to know these terms to understand discussions about computer security (and, of course, to communicate effectively with security vendors).

10 Lessons Google Must Learn About OS Security
LinuxSecurity.com: News Analysis: Google is new to the operating system market, so it has to demonstrate that it understands how to build and maintain a secure Web OS. The history of Windows security has shown there are many avenues of attack against a desktop operating system. There are even more potential attack strategies for an online OS. But whether Google has learned the many hard lessons of Web security is very much in doubt at this point.