A Homeland Security Department-funded study of bugs in open-source software found less than one-half of one bug per thousand lines of code on average, and even fewer defects in the most widely used code.
Novell Inc. has released the source code for its open-source Linux security application AppArmor in hopes of attracting outside developers to refine the program, but observers fear it will fracture the open-source development community around the demanding science of mandatory access control.
If you follow instructions from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, you can rest assured that sensitive data you delete from obsolete computer hard drives and optical disks will not be recovered.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has certified OpenSSL, an open-source library of encryption algorithms, as meeting Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 Level 1 standards, according to the Open Source Software Institute.
Open-source project leaders could use these results to fix software defects, while agency and critical infrastructure IT shops could monitor them to evaluate or take corrective action on applications.
Beating out Unix stalwarts Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp. has topped a customer satisfaction poll of data center Unix administrators.
Windows Cluster Server is based on the Windows Server 2003 server software, but has additional features that allow computers to be yoked together to work in parallel on computationally intensive tasks.
The Defense Department has posted a working draft of Version 3 of its standard for records management software, the 5015.2-STD RMA Design Criteria Standard.
The White House and OMB want agencies to coordinate R&D efforts, both to cut down on duplicative and low-payoff projects and to get in step with the goals set by the interagency National Science and Technology Council.
IBM and Sun Microsystems are marketing on-demand computing services to agencies with a backlog of high-performance computing tasks, such as the departments of Energy and Defense.
The National Security Agency is looking for analysis software to help it sort through the immense amount of data it collects, because commercial intelligence software just isn't powerful enough to do the job.
