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I've written about Likewise Software a few times previously. Like many open source companies, Likewise offers a completely open, free (both libre, and gratis) version of its security and authentication software that's designed to simplify managing mixed networks. Up to this point, however, it's only been available for physical environments, not virtual servers.

Come June, this will no longer be the case. Citrix has integrated Likewise's Open software with its XenServer virtualization software, so that virtual servers running in mixed network environments can be secured just as easily as physical machines.

By way of Heise Online comes word that Tor, the internet anonymization system, has hit a milestone of nearly mythical proportions -- there are currently no known bugs in the Tor code.

Tor began scanning its development releases in September using Coverity, a bug detection application developed by Stanford University in collaboration with the US Department of Homeland Security. In September, Coverity revealed 171 issues in Tor's code base, ranging from annoying yet not critical sloppiness to bugs capable of causing crashes that would prove challenging to debug. By December, Tor had lowered this number to 15, and last week, Coverity testing revealed that the project had successfully eliminated the last known issues.