Many useful computer security tool ideas have a common genesis: the cracker world. Tools, like port scanners and password crackers, originally designed to aid black-hats in their attempts to ...

DALLAS, TX--(Marketwired - Oct 29, 2014) - GE's Critical Power business (NYSE: GE) today announced the availability of its new GDT080 GigaDLynx* digital point-of-load (POL) module, providing board ...

Many, many press releases cross my desk (including “news stories” that simply reiterate press releases). Well, these days, they usually just cross my inbox on their way to the trashcan. I rarely get ...

I did something recently I haven’t done in a long time: I recompiled the Linux kernel. There was a time when this was a common occurrence. You might want a feature that the default kernel didn’t ...

Way back when, 8 months ago, as I was first setting up this box, I read how to configure things so that the system would automatically load a kernel module on demand. Now I've got a second box and can ...

Members of the open source community are working on a new security-focused project for the Linux kernel. Named Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG), this is a loadable kernel module that will perform ...

On selected operating systems this module can be used to load modules into Apache at runtime via the Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) mechanism, rather than requiring a recompilation. Apache 1.3 modules ...