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A bug in Usermin, a widely-used administration console for Unix and Linux, could allow an attacker to run malicious code via a specially-crafted email, according to security researchers. . . .
Those of you hung over from patching Windows XP SP2 can't sleep in just yet. More than 40 vulnerabilities have been reported for Oracle's flagship software products. Holes in the Database Server and its Listener element can . . .
Serious security flaws that potentially affect hundreds of email gateway products have been discovered in the widely deployed MIME (Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions) protocol. . . .
Spammers seem to be always a notch ahead than all the efforts against their malicious intentions. According to a recent study by MX Logic Inc., a provider of email defense solutions for corporates, . . .
Linux users are at risk from serious security vulnerabilities in components used to view graphics and handle archives, according to researchers. The security holes, found in the imlib graphics library and the LHA archive tool, . . .
Open-source developers have warned of serious security holes in two Linux components that could allow attackers to take over a system by tricking a user into viewing a specially-crafted image file or opening an archive. Patches exist for the bugs, which affect LHA and imlib. . . .
U.S. residential Internet users are much more satisfied with the spam protection from their Internet service providers, but remain unhappy with their ISPs' defenses against hackers and viruses, J.D. Power and Associates said Wednesday. . . .
Linux software maker Red Hat Inc. on Tuesday launched an upgrade of the enterprise version of its product, which includes better security. The latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes features that protect against stack, . . .
Apache Software Foundation among developers shunning Microsoft anti-spam measure. Opposition to Microsoft's Sender ID anti-spam email scheme is growing in the open source community, which is complaining about the software giant's licensing terms. . . .
THE concept of work no longer means a set number of hours sitting at a desk in an office. While going to an office is still part of work, employees are now working in new ways and from many different locations--as a tele-worker, while travelling, . . .
Users of the open-source mail package should now be able to reduce their spam levels. Sendmail on Monday released the first implementation of a mail filter that uses Sender ID, an anti-spam technology currently being considered by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). . . .
The spam flood is rising, contributing to a reduction in the usefulness of e-mail, a market research firm said Wednesday. Unsolicited e-mail from con artists, virus writers and advertisers accounts for 38 percent of the 31 billion e-mails sent each day in North America this year, up from 24 percent in 2002, . . .
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has warned of security vulnerabilities in its implementation of Kerberos that could allow attackers free access to protected systems. Users of MIT Kerberos 5 are urged to apply patches immediately. . . .
In a caper eerily similar to the the theft of $200,000 worth of AT&T Broadband equipment in 2000, high-tech thieves raided 26 outdoor amplifier sites in Cooper City, causing as many as 14,000 Comcast customers to lose cable service for up to two hours. . . .
Similar to packet sniffing, port scanning and other "security tools", vulnerability scanning can help you to secure your own network or it can be used by the bad guys to identify weaknesses in your system to mount an attack against. The idea is for you to use these tools to identify and fix these weaknesses before the bad guys use them against you. . . .
As more traffic across the Internet is coming under scrutiny and network administrators are making efforts to limit the traffic in and out of their networks, the one port that no one is willing to block en-masse is port 80. Users (and administrators) browse the web constantly, whether it is for work purposes or not. The lifeblood of a company's existence on the Internet requires a web presence in one fashion or another and this requires a web server, whether it is hosted by a service provider or located on a company's network. . . .
Linux developers said they had few problems with attacks and viruses overall, with 92 percent saying their Linux systems have never been infected with a virus, and 78 percent saying their systems have never been hacked. Less than seven percent claimed to have been hacked three or more times. . . .
Security is becoming one of the most urgent challenges in database research and industry, and there has also been increasing interest in the problem of building accurate data mining models over aggregate data, while protecting privacy at the level of individual records. Instead of building walls around servers or hard drives, a protective layer of encryption is provided around specific sensitive data-items or objects. . . .
This guest editorial by Victor Yodaiken looks at several operating system (OS) certifications that have recently been used as ammunition against Linux by real-time OS vendors targeting the high-security and military markets. It also debunks several emotional and inflamatory arguments impugning Linux security. . . .
One of the issues HKAOA considered when developing the new system was security. "Because we were putting sensitive information about our members online, security had to be absolutely bullet-proof. Linux was clearly the best choice from a security perspective," said Findlay. . . .
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