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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.
Alleged hack cracks PS3 master key (Dec 31)

At this week's Chaos Communication Conference, a group of hackers known as fail0verflow appeared to crack the PS3's randomized key cryptography and access the system's master code. The team demoed the alleged security flaw by creating a hack and installing Linux on the system.
Gadgets Bring New Opportunities for Hackers (Dec 27)

Researchers at Mocana, a security technology company in San Francisco, recently discovered they could hack into a best-selling Internet-ready HDTV model with unsettling ease. They found a hole in the software that helps display Web sites on the TV and leveraged that flaw to control information being sent to the television.
(Dec 30)

Hackers have been a part of Hollywood's movie-making tradition for decades, and while real-life hackers tend to have bad reps, Hollywood counterparts are often depicted as heroes whose valiant efforts save the world and humankind. To get in touch with your inner geek and to celebrate the release of "TRON: Legacy," here is a top 10 list (in no particular order) of the coolest movie hackers. You may not learn any real hacking watching these folks, but you will be entertained witnessing early portrayal of computer security.
(Dec 28)

Forensics, or forensic science, is the application of scientific methods to resolve or shed light on legal issues. It has a number of subdivisions; forensic medicine involves the examination of the human body (living or dead) for purposes of answering legal questions or gathering evidence for a criminal or civil action.
What you missed: A major Internet security hole was finally plugged (Dec 31)

The typical end-of-year security story generally involves a looming cyber threat or yet another major misstep by Microsoft. Well, there's good news on the security front this year -- and, like our other picks, it's gone largely unnoticed. A major hole in security has been plugged with the full deployment of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSec) at the Internet's authoritative root zone.
Carders.cc, Backtrack-linux.org and Exploit-db.org Hacked (Dec 27)

Carders.cc, a German security forum that specializes in trading stolen credit cards and other purloined data, has been hacked by security vigilantes for the second time this year. Also waking up to "you've been owned" calling cards this Christmas are exploit database exploit-db.org and backtrack-linux.org, the home of Backtrack, an open source "live CD" distribution of Linux.
Hackers watch a world collapsing into chaos (Dec 27)

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