Archive for April 28th, 2007
CollabNet acquires SourceForge from VA Software
CollabNet has acquired SourceForge Enterprise Edition (SFEE) from VA Software Corp., adding to its range of collaborative software-development tools.
Its products already include Subversion, a code repository, and CollabNet Enterprise Edition, a software-development tool for distributed project teams. SFEE is another source code repository and collaborative software-development environment.
Such Web-based development tools are increasingly popular with the geographically dispersed development teams common in many open source software projects, which often bring together enthusiasts with common interests but living in different time zones.
Between SFEE and its own tools, CollabNet will support 300 enterprise clients and 1.1 million individual users worldwide, it said. By combining the research-and-development teams for the two products, CollabNet hopes to fend off competition in the software-development tools market from IBM.
VA offered SFEE as a free download for small groups of developers, making money on technical support or on software licenses for groups of 20 users or more. CollabNet has a similar business model.
The deal does not include SourceForge.net, a hosting service for open source software projects operated by VA subsidiary Open Source Technology Group. SourceForge.net is home to many well-known applications, including Audacity, a cross-platform audio-editing tool and eMule, a peer-to-peer file-sharing client.
CollabNet will acquire the SFEE code, and will take on some VA employees involved with the product. In return, VA gains an equity stake in CollabNet. The companies gave no further financial details of the deal.
Source: LinuxWorld
HITBSecConf 2007 – Malaysia
Registration for HITBSecConf 2007 – Malaysia is now OPEN! We have moved our conference to the bigger and better Hilton KL Sentral; Kuala Lumpur’s newest 5-star hotel centrally located in the heart of Kuala Lumpur and a mere 28 minutes from the airport via the KLIA Express.
We’re expecting over 800 attendees to join us from around the world for this year’s Malaysian leg and we promise they will not be disappointed! HITBSecConf2007 – Malaysia will be the largest network security event in Asia with 4 keynote speakers and over 40 of the world’s leading researchers and security experts under one roof. Some of the highlights:
7 Tracks of Hands-On Technical Trainings:
TECH TRAINING 1 – Advanced Web Application & Services Hacking
TECH TRAINING 2 – The Exploit Laboratory
TECH TRAINING 3 – Structured Network Threat Analysis and Forensics
TECH TRAINING 4 – Practical Malcode Threat Analysis
TECH TRAINING 5 – Telecommunication Fraud
TECH TRAINING 6 – War Driving Kuala Lumpur
TECH TRAINING 7 – Hacking Oracle
Day 1 Keynote Speakers: Mark ‘Phiber Optik’ Abene and Emmanuel Goldstein
Day 2 Keynote Speakers: Lance Spitzner and Mikko Hypponen
HITB Cinema: As part of our yearly charity initiative, we are organizing screenings of Freedom Downtime and Urchin. Freedom Downtime, directed and produced by Emmanuel Goldstein is the story of computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, imprisoned without bail for nearly five years while Urchin is an independent production written and directed by John Harlacher and stars Mark Abene as ‘The Inside Man’ and Emmanuel Goldstein as ‘The Outside Man’. Shot illegally in the subways, sewers, and streets of New York City “Urchin” is a prime example of guerrilla cinema made possible by new technology. This will be the first time in Asia Pacific that these movies are being shown to the public and all proceeds from these screenings will go to the Malaysian National Cancer Council – MAKNA.
Capture The Flag: With cash prizes worth USD6,000 this years’ Capture The Flag game has already received confirmation of participation from Padocon from Korea (last year’s champions), NDMTeam from Bulgaria, Army Strong comprising members of the US Army and Zone-H from Italy.
Zone-H/HITB Hacking Challenge: Zone-H in colaboration with the Hack in The Box crew will organize a 6-level web-based hackgame in which individual participants will be challenged to try to beat the hackgame in the shortest possible time. Based on the original game developed by Zone-H in 2005, there will be no need to bring your own exploits or your own laptop.
Lock Picking Village (LPV): Deviant Olam, Eric Michaud and Q who are members from the The Open Organization of Lockpickers (TOOL USA) will be running a Lock Picking Village at the conference in which attendees will be invited to try their hands at bumping and other physical security bypass methods! If you think your home locks are secure, you’re more than welcome to bring them along and see for yourself how easily they can be bypassed.
BZFlag Competition: Organized by members of the US Army, attendees to HITBSecConf2007 will be able to blow off some steam in a BZFlag arena. BZFlag is an online multiplayer cross-platform open source 3D tank battle!
Early Bird: MYR 399.00
Normal (after 1st June): MYR499.00
Student: MYR250
