Linux Today SECURITY LETTER FOR SEPTEMBER 18, 2000

Latest Security News for the Linux and Open Source Community.

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TODAY'S LINUX SECURITY NEWS:

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SECURITY PORTAL: WEEKLY LINUX SECURITY DIGEST 2000/09/11 TO
2000/09/17

"The big news this week is that Debian is phasing out support for
Slink (2.1). Debian 2.2 has been out for a few weeks now, and it
is reasonable that users should upgrade to the latest official
stable software - see the Debian section for more information."

COMPLETE STORY:
http://securityportal.com/topnews/weekly/linux20000918.html

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LINUXSECURITY.COM: LINUX SECURITY WEEK, SEPTEMBER 18TH 2000

"This week, several interesting papers were released. "Using
Postfix for Secure SMTP Gateways," by Mick Bauer and Brenno
de Winter, is particularly helpful to administrators new to
postfix."

COMPLETE STORY:
http://linuxsecurity.com/articles/forums_article-1578.html

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LINUXNEWS.COM: CLOSE ENOUGH FOR GOVERNMENT WORK? A BRIEF HISTORY
OF LINUX SECURITY ISSUES

"Linux is up against some stern arguments against its use in
secure government computing--arguments open source security
experts are happily blowing apart."

COMPLETE STORY:
http://www.linuxnews.com/stories.php?story=221

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RED HAT PLANS AUTOMATED SECURITY UPDATES

"Red Hat has revealed that it plans to include a service with
its distribution of Linux that will automatically update systems
with the latest security patches. The move comes after a warning
from security advisory group Cert last weekend of widespread
attacks on internet servers that target security vulnerabilities
for which fixes are readily available. A large number of hosts,
many of them running Red Hat Linux, have been affected, according
to Cert."

COMPLETE STORY:
http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=27643

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SECURITY PORTAL: INTRODUCTION TO ENCRYPTION

"There is no one single way to encrypt a file. Hundreds of
ciphers exist today and many more are being developed every
year."

COMPLETE STORY:
http://securityportal.com/cover/coverstory20000918.html


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