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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. Great articles this week, including a review of the latest Ubuntu 10.4 reference, interviews with security experts, pointers to security HOWTOs and updates, and much more.

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Master's Student: Social Engineering is not just a definition! - All the security in the world isn't going to stop one of your employees or coworkers from giving up information. Just how easy is it?

Review: Ubuntu Unleased 2010 Edition: Covering 9.10 and 10.4 - Compiling a reference book of more than 800 pages, plus a complete DVD distributed with the book, is a huge project, even for four experienced Linux veterans such as those that wrote Ubuntu Unleased: 2010 Edition.

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.
Internet Identity Workshop reveals OpenID clashes (Jun 1)

There are too many identity-related trade shows and conferences spread over venues all over the world and not enough time to get to them all. It's a far cry from when we started this newsletter 10 years ago, and the increased interest in identity issues should be applauded, but I can't be everywhere at once!
Talking with a Forbes blogger about firewalls (Jun 1)

This is the second of two parts of an interview with Daniel Kennedy, MSIA, who graduated from the Master of Science in Information Assurance program in the School of Graduate Studies of Norwich University in 2008. He has recently become a contributor to an interesting, thoughtful and valuable blog at Forbes Online and I interviewed him recently about his new project.
Google's WebM license could undermine the meaning of 'open source' (Jun 1)

As Apple and Adobe sparred over the inclusion of Flash in the iPhone OS, supporters of the emerging HTML5 standard -- including Apple, Google, and Microsoft -- touted the H.264 video codec specified in HTML5 as a reason that Flash is unnecessary. But H.264 is proprietary technology that requires a license for use and redistribution, which effectively means Mozilla can't adopt it for the open source Firefox browser.
BP pwned by Twitter prankstersBP pwned by Twitter pranksters (Jun 1)

Oil giant BP suffered further embarrassment on Thursday after its official Twitter account was hacked.Pranksters purloined the @BP_America Twitter account to write "Terry is now in charge of operation Top Kill, work will recommence after we find a XXL wetsuit. #bpcares #oilspill"