LINUX TODAY SECURITY LETTER FOR MAY 05, 2000
Latest Security News for the Linux and Open Source Community.
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TODAY'S LINUX SECURITY NEWS:
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ZDNET UK: EXPERTS CALL ON FIRMS TO EMBRACE BUG FREE LINUX
"There is no better argument for using Linux than yesterday's
computer virus outbreak, say Linux distributors and anti-virus
experts Friday."
COMPLETE STORY:
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/17/ns-15205.html
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CNET NEWS.COM: MICROSOFT CRITICIZED FOR LACK OF SOFTWARE SECURITY
"Look at it this way: The 'Love' bug isn't a bug after all. It's
a feature. That's the wry analysis of security experts in the
wake of the destructive global spread of the 'I Love You' virus
and its variants. They say the worm's lightning-fast spread is
a perfect demonstration of Microsoft's powerful technologies
working exactly as they were designed to operate."
COMPLETE STORY:
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1823167.html?tag=st.ne.1002.tgif.ni?st.ne.fd.gif.d
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LINUXNEWBIE.ORG: INSTALLING LIBSAFE 1.3 ON SUSE 6.X
"The libsafe library protects a process against the exploitation
of buffer overflow vulnerabilities in process stacks. Libsafe
works with any existing pre-compiled executable and can be used
transparently, even on a system-wide basis. ... Experiments
indicate that the performance overhead of libsafe is negligible."
COMPLETE STORY:
http://linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/suse/sulibsafe.html
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LINUX MAGAZINE: NETWORK SECURITY WITH LINUX 2.4
"...in the interest of shamelessly tapping into the 2.4 hype
and excitement, this month's column is about the extensions
to packet filtering you will have at your fingertips when you
finally get your hands on the Linux 2.4 kernel."
COMPLETE STORY:
http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-01/bestdefense_01.html
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BETANEWS: ILOVEYOU VIRUS MUTATING - 10 VARIANTS; MORE TO COME
"t's now clear that the original ILOVEYOU worm... is the worst
virus outbreak on record. Latest reports from Symantec... confirm
that 10 variants, other than the original, are now in active
circulation..."
COMPLETE STORY:
http://betanews.efront.com/article.php3?sid=957558075&_ref=1432523413
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Visit the other sites in the Linux Channel:
Linux Planet <http://www.linuxplanet.com>,
LinuxStart <http://www.linuxstart.com>,
Linux Central <http://www.linuxcentral.com>,
and JustLinux <http://www.justlinux.com>.
Also, check out the ISP-Linux Moderated Digest
<http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/moderated/isp-linux/>.
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