Security: Every week, Roger Grimes gets asked what the best means are for protecting a network. “Malicious computer hacking has never been worse. It’s more criminal in nature and more pervasive, and it’s stealing more money and identities than ever before,” he writes in Beware the browser within. That said, Grimes asserts, we’re doing a fairly good job of securing servers. The real problem is that, “we seem unable to convince some end-users to stop clicking on things they should not be clicking on.” Easier said than done, of course, but that is the first of Grimes’ four-part answer. “There are many more security tasks to accomplish than these, but if administrators were better at this quartet — consistently better — the risk of malicious exploit would drop significantly.” Best of the blogs: Randall Kennedy has rescinded his previous blog posts suggesting that Linux should be forked. “I’m more convinced than ever that Linux needs less fragmentation, not more,” he writes in Linux “unforked!” Mea culpa! What gives? “I simply cannot bring myself to endorse a course of action that I now know will cause irreparable harm to the already fragile Linux ecosystem. If I’ve learned anything over the past week it’s that Linux is a bit of a miracle.” Related: Desktop Linux? Stick a fork in it. Storage: It may be a frivolous lawsuit, up until now anyway, but the NetApp-Sun rivalry is heating up. “I don’t think anybody truly understands what the two companies are arguing about and why,” Mario Apicella writes. “Consider the odds that two well-trained engineers or engineering teams could come up with a very similar solution to the same problem independently. Those odds are darn high, if you ask me.” Related: NetApp-Sun lawsuit seen as open source test case. Security