The Virtual Hosting Blog has a 15 point report card on operating system security. It compares the various security related portions of Mac OS X, Ubuntu and Windows Vista.
For the impatient: Mac OS X gets A-, Ubuntu receives a B+ and Windows Vista gets a B-.

I’ve been doing some research on Linux vs Windows arguments for a paper I’m working on. Preparing a clear overview of the benefits Linux has over Windows is an excellent way to try and bring some change to the workplace.
One of things that stood out that when people review the security issues of GNU/Linux, they [...]

There’s a great article over at The Register about Vista’s advanced heuristic detection.
Apparently Vista checks whether or not a program needs admin rights to run by checking its filename…. Yeah that scared me too. To quote Microsoft:

Windows Vista heuristically detects installation programs and requests administrator credentials or approval from the administrator user in order to [...]

Apple has delayed the next Mac OSX release ‘Leopard’ until October 2007, instead of releasing at the WWDC in June.
According to the official statement by Apple, rushing out the iPhone required some borrowing some key engineers from the Mac OSX team and as a result Leopard won’t be finished in time.
Yeah, sure.

Seeing what a [...]