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Bron: [url=http://www.deadly.org/]OpenBSD Journal[/url]

OpenBSD heeft een nieuwe feature waarmee je internet ‘aan’ en ‘uit’ kan zetten op USER basis. Dat lijkt mij een droom voor sommige systeem/netwerk beheerders.

[quote]As a user authenticates using ssh‚ authpf will alter the PF (and NAT) rules as desired for that user on the node that user is on. When the user logs out‚ the PF rules are reverted back to as they were before the user logged in‚ and all the states they had are killed.

Think about some of the possibilities:

Keep your wireless access for your users‚ and not anyone driving by with a laptop.
Permit internet access only to selected people in your office‚ or restricted based on who they are‚ not where they sit.
Permit field users to have access to internal services‚ with the filters following them as they authenticate‚ rather than having to be preconfigured. Great for people from locations with dynamic addresses or people traveling.
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[url=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=authpf&sektion=8]Het hele artikel[/url]

Bron: [url=http://www.daemonnews.org/]DaemonNews.org[/url]

FreeBSD/sparc64 boot nu multiuser op multiprocessor Ultra en Enterprise classe machines met alle CPU’s actief. Dit is het eerste open source BSD OS dat de SMP op UltraSPARC hardware volledig ondersteund.

[url=http://people.freebsd.org/~jake/tip.e420]Het bewijs[/url]

Bron: [url=http://www.theregister.com]TheRegister.com[/url]

Vorige week begonnen Microsoft en Unisys een campagne tegen‚ het gesloten en moeilijk te onderhouden‚ Unix. Toen bekend werd dat de site [url=http://www.wehavethewayout.com]wehavethewayout.com[/url] op Apache met FreeBSD draaide is dit snel vervangen door een Microsoft/IIS systeem. En dat leverde het volgende op.

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[quote]But back to that imagery. The campaign didn’t name the evil from which users should flee‚ but the graphic showed a floor almost entirely covered in mauve paint‚ mauve being the color of Sun Microsystems. So far‚ so good: but the alternative on offer was to jump through a window‚ which literate readers will know as defenestration‚ a popular way of inviting kings to commit suicide in 17th century Europe. The “jump to your death” route seems to be the path followed by the advertisers themselves‚ as the promotional website itself has performed some form of ritual suicide in its migration to Windows.
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Bron: [url=http://zdnet.com.com]Zdnet[/url]

De site “We have the way out” draait op FreeBSD met apache. Voor de mensen die het niet geloven‚ klik [url=http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?mode_u=on&mode_w=on&site=www.wehavethewayout.com&submit=Examine]hier[/url].

[quote]Representatives at Unisys and Microsoft weren’t immediately available for comment.

The marketing site’s use of Unix comes as Microsoft works to get a greater foothold for its Windows operating system in the enterprise computing market‚ where Unix is well entrenched. Unisys partnered with Microsoft to co-market its large server hardware running Windows as a Unix alternative.
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[url=http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-872304.html]Het hele artikel[/url]

Bron: [url=http://www.deadly.org]Deadly.org[/url]

Micrsoft development maakte vandaag bekend dat de volgende generatie MS OS-en niet meer op de NT kernel gebaseerd zullen zijn. Het nieuwe systeem dat gebaseerd is op de OpenBSD kernel zal WindowsBSD gaan heten.

[quote]Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer had the following to say: “As part of our new commitment to security, we are developing the next Windows product based upon OpenBSD. We feel that OpenBSD’s security record fits well with our new proactive security model. Furthermore, we fully approve of the BSD license and encourage developers continue to write similarly-licensed code and avoid the infernal GNU GPL.” When asked whether the decision to base the new Windows operating system on OpenBSD had anything to do with the success of Apple’s BSD-based OS X, Ballmer exclaimed “There’s nothing those Mac people can do that we can’t do better. Microsoft has a long history with Unix-like systems, dating back from our original development of Xenix. We are dedicated to providing the Windows experience to Unix on the desktop.”
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[url=http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20020401035959]Het hele artikel[/url]

Bron: [url=http://www.cnet.com/]Cnet[/url]

Unisys en Microsoft lanceren een [url=http://www.wehavethewayout.com/]campagne[/url] tegen Unix waarmee ze willen aanduiden dat Unix een duur systeem is omdat er dure experts ingehuurd moeten worden. De high-end systemen van Unisys‚ draaiend op Microsoft Windows 2000‚ hebben nogal veel concurrentie van Unix servers en IBM Summit servers. Een andere tegenvaller is dat alle sales partnerships met Dell‚ Compaq en HP op niets zijn uitgelopen.

[quote]The 18-month project will include advertisements‚ technical sales efforts and other marketing work plugging Unisys’ high-end server and Microsoft’s top-end version of Windows–two products that so far have made only their first steps into the data centers where high-end servers often reside.

The campaign‚ called “We have the way out‚” describes Unix as an expensive trap. “No wonder Unix makes you feel boxed in. It ties you to an inflexible system. It requires you to pay for expensive experts. It makes you struggle daily with a server environment that’s more complex than ever‚” one ad reads.
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[url=http://news.com.com/2100-1001-870805.html]Het hele artikel[/url]

Bijna alle draadloze netwerken in London staan open voor hackers. Uit een onderzoek bleek dat 92% van de 5000 bedrijven met draadloze netwerken geen stappen hebben ondernomen om zichzelf te beveiligen tegen normale aanvallen.

[quote]The survey‚ sponsored by the International Chamber of Commerce‚ used some novel software tools that could detect the networks other systems missed.

Many of the networks readily handed out internet connections to anyone that connected to them and almost all passed around confidential information in an easy to interpret form.
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[img]http://www.bsdfreaks.nl/images/pics/20.jpg[/img]
[quote]Hier je een zelfgemaakte
antenne zien waarmee je
eenvoudig de open
netwerken kan opsporen.
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Bron: [url=http://www.webwereld.nl]Webwereld[/url]

Het betreft hier twee afzonderlijke problemen. De eerste doet zich voor in bepaalde versies van de Internet Explorer. De tweede kwetsbaarheid manifesteert zich in Windows NT/2000 en heeft te maken met een software debugging component in de besturingssystemen. Microsoft heeft al patches klaar voor de problemen met de Internet Explorer.

Dit is voor mij een goede reden om ook mijn workstation te voorzien van non-MS OS 🙂

Bron: [url=http://newsforge.com/]NewsForge[/url]

Het bedrijf Codeweavers‚ je weet wel van Wine‚ heeft de release van Crossover Office v1.0 aangekondigd. Met een bestaande MS Office CD kan je deze gewoon installeren en dan kun je Word‚ Excel‚ Powerpoint‚ Access en Outlook gebruiken…
Je kan zelfs surfen met Internet Exploder. Aint that cute….

[quote]This product only makes sense for people who already have a Microsoft Office CD. If you don’t‚ stick with StarOffice or pay Microsoft USD $370 plus tax for the suite. But if you do have Office 97 or 2000 laying around‚ Codeweaver’s Crossover Office will let you fire up Word‚ Excel‚ PowerPoint‚ and Access in Linux‚ and even surf the Internet with Explorer‚ or check your mail with Outlook.
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[url=http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/03/27/0444257.shtml?tid=15]Het artikel[/url]

Bron: [url=http://linux.oreillynet.com]Oreilly Network[/url]

In dit artikel wordt de veligheid van Unix aan de kaak gesteld.

[quote]In this column‚ we look at a local root vulnerability in Webmin; a bug in BSD-based TCP/IP stacks; a vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment; buffer overflows in listar‚ Imlib‚ and Open Unix and UnixWare 7’s rpc.cmsd; and problems in Netscape‚ QPopper‚ PHP’s move_uploaded_file() function‚ Penguin Traceroute‚ PHP Net Toolpack‚ and Mandrake’s kdm.
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[url=http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/03/25/insecurities.html]Het artikel[/url]