Linux Today SECURITY LETTER FOR MAY 18, 2000 Latest Security News for the Linux and Open Source Community. ___________________________ Sponsors ________________________________ This newsletter sponsored by: TurboLinux _____________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ TODAY'S LINUX SECURITY NEWS: ------------------------------------------------------------------ ROOTPROMPT.ORG: WATCHING YOUR LOGS - HOW TO AUTOMATE YOUR LOG FILTERING "However, logs can be extremely copious, quickly overwhelming us with information. Soon they become useless files that just fill up disk space. This article will cover how to solve this by automating the filtering of your logs, freeing up your time while alerting you with the information you need." COMPLETE STORY: http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=449 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ZDNET: MICROSOFT'S 'CLIPPY' A SECURITY NIGHTMARE? "The hole, which allows an attacker to write a script that can do anything once on a user's computer, gets activated by clicking on a Web page or HTML-enabled e-mail." COMPLETE STORY: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2570727,00.html /-------------------------------------------------------------------\ "As e-commerce grows in popularity, and Web servers become mission-critical, clustering is back on the scene as a hot and vitally needed technology. And TurboCluster (from TurboLinux) is taking center stage." -Sm@rt Reseller TurboLinux. High-Performance Linux! http://www.turbolinux.com/products/tcs/why-to-buy.html \--------------------------------------------------------------adv.-/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ TURBOLINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT: PACKAGE: OPENLDAP 1.2.9 AND EARLIER "OpenLDAP follows symbolic links when creating files. The default location for these files is /usr/tmp, which is a symlink to /tmp, which in turn is a world-writable directory." COMPLETE STORY: http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=21971 ------------------------------------------------------------------ NY TIMES: SECRECY FOR EVERYONE, AS ENCRYPTION GOES TO MARKET "Privacy issues are becoming public concerns as Internet privacy is increasingly turning up on the evening news. More people are becoming aware of the vulnerability of their computer files because of things like hard-drive excavations by private and public investigators." COMPLETE STORY: http://partners.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/circuits/articles/18cryp.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Visit the other sites in the internet.com Linux/Open Source Channel: Linux Today <http://www.linuxtoday.com>, LinuxPlanet <http://www.linuxplanet.com>, LinuxStart <http://www.linuxstart.com>, BSD Today <http://www.bsdtoday.com>, Linux Central <http://www.linuxcentral.com>, JustLinux <http://www.justlinux.com>, Linux Programming <http://www.linuxprogramming.com>, LinuxApps <http://www.linuxapps.com>, Linuxnewbie (http://www.linuxnewbie.org), and PHPBuilder.com <http://www.phpbuilder.com>. Also, check out the ISP-Linux Moderated Digest <http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/moderated/isp-linux/>. ---- Copyright 2000 internet.com Corp. All rights reserved. ---- For advertising information, contact Frank Fazio <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ((203) 662-2997), Director, Inside Sales. --- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Utk berhenti langganan, kirim email ke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Informasi arsip di http://www.linux.or.id/milis.php3 Pengelola dapat dihubungi lewat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
