Friday, June 20th, 2008
Tresys Technology has released a desktop virtualisation platform with a difference - it is designed from the ground up for organisations needing tight security, including military bodies.
Tresys, which has a track record of providing military systems, said its VM Fortress can cut costs for organisations which would like to implement ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
For a while now I’ve been using different web browsers to compartmentalize my risk. Most of my primary browsing is in one browser, but I use another for potentially risky activities I want to isolate more. Running different browsers for different sessions isolates certain types of attacks. For example, unless ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
We tested openSUSE, Ubuntu 8.04, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva Linux One, Fedora, SimplyMEPIS, and CentOS 5.1. All performed well, and each had at least one truly outstanding feature.
In the last couple of years, desktop-friendly Linux distributions have taken enormous leaps -- they're easier to install, better maintained, and more powerful than ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
As the world of virtualization moves forward, organisations are faced with compelling reasons to virtualize: factors like server consolidation, high energy bills, faster hardware, ease of use and step back and quick snapshot technology make the virtual computing realm become more attractive.
In some organisations virtualization has already become a large ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Seeing as I've just spent the morning trying to get all this up and running I thought I'd create an entry about how to get Backtrack running in VirtualBox.
For those who haven't heard of it, VirtualBox is an open source equivalent to vmware workstation. It does full snapshoting (unlike vmware ...
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