General Esm W900
Thank you for reading the LinuxSecurity.com weekly security newsletter. The purpose of this document is to provide our readers with a quick summary of each week's most relevant Linux security headlines.

LinuxSecurity.com Feature Extras:

Review: The Official Ubuntu Book - If you haven't used Linux before, are new to Ubuntu, or would like a quick update on the latest in open source advancements for the desktop, then The Official Ubuntu Book is a great place to start. Authored by a group of some of the most experienced open source administrators and developers, this 400-page user guide details everything you need to know about how to make the most of your Ubuntu, Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE), and Xubuntu (Ubuntu with Xfce) computer.

Review: Zabbix 1.8 Network Monitoring - If you have anything more than a small home network, you need to be monitoring the status of your systems to ensure they are providing the services they were designed to provide. Rihards Olups has created a comprehensive reference and usability guide for the latest version of Zabbix that anyone being tasked with implementing should have by their side.

Guardian Digital is happy to announce the release of EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.22 (Version 3.0, Release 22). This release includes many updated packages and bug fixes and some feature enhancements to the EnGarde Secure Linux Installer and the SELinux policy.
Can Open Source Be Trusted? (Dec 18)

Theo de Raadt is one of the key hackers outside the mainstream GNU/Linux world. Here's his self-penned bio: I am the founder of OpenBSD -- a freely redistributable 4.4BSD-based operating system with an emphasis on security. Donations allow me to put my efforts into OpenBSD and related projects. In 1999, I created OpenSSH with other members of OpenBSD.
Will feds mandate Internet routing security? (Dec 15)

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has spent $3 million over the past few years on research aimed at bolstering the security of the Internet's routing system. Now, as this research is being deployed across the Internet, DHS wants government agencies and their carriers to be among the earliest adopters of the new Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) system that it helped create.
WikiLeaks attacks highlight risks in internet security (Dec 17)

The British national security adviser, Sir Peter Ricketts, has advised all government departments to review their computer security in light of the recent WikiLeaks attacks.
The 10 Most Destructive Hacker Attacks In The Past 25 Years (Dec 14)

From a computer virus named for a stripper to swarming botnet attacks on the Pentagon and Microsoft, The Daily Beast lists the 10 most infamous hacks, worms, and DDoS takedowns in the last 25 years.
(Dec 15)

More evidence of the "consumerization" of enterprise IT: On Monday, security firm RSA announced that it will release software designed to make an Android device provide two-factor authentication by serving as an RSA SecurID authenticator.
(Dec 16)

The claim that the FBI planted a backdoor in OpenBSD a decade ago has been flatly denied by developer protagonists named as having been involved in the conspiracy in an email sent to OpenBSD founder, Theo de Raadt.
(Dec 13)

As Julian Assange is held in solitary confinement at Wandsworth prison, the anonymous community of hacktivists takes to the cyber battlefields. He is one of the newest recruits to Operation Payback. In a London bedroom, the 24-year-old computer hacker is preparing his weaponry for this week's battles in an evolving cyberwar.
Student attacks Internet security issues from new angle (Dec 17)

Joseph Idziorek, graduate in electrical and computer engineering, has been researching computer security. The study conducts research on sites that have been experiencing denial of service attacks, in which hackers try to get unauthorized access and hinder them.
Hackers get Ubuntu Linux booting alongside Google's Chrome OS (Dec 16)

I've been testing out a prototype of Google's Chrome OS laptop for about a week now, and while I love certain things about the device my mind keeps coming back to the fact that it would be so much nicer if it could boot a "real" operating system as well.
Top 5 Security Predictions for 2011 (Dec 14)

We're quickly coming to the end of 2010, which means it's time for Fortinet's FortiGuard team to roll out the crystal ball and predict what the biggest security trends are going to be in the coming year. In short, we're predicting increased global collaboration on cybercrime syndicate crackdowns; a price increase for tomorrow's crime services; an increase in 64-bit attacks; increased job demand for developers, CAPTCHA breakers, QA and distributors; and more cyber criminals will enter the game by attempting to use recycled source code. The full report is outlined below.
(Dec 16)

Happy holidays! Your Web server just died! I use the word