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Review: A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Fifth Edition - Mark Sobell again delivers the answers to common Linux administration challenges, and provides thorough and step-by-step instructions to configuring many of the common Linux Internet services in A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fifth Edition.

Hackers post data on JP Morgan Chase CEO (Sep 30)

Hackers have posted personal information about the chief executive of J.P. Morgan Chase in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protests.
(Sep 29)

The Firefox developers are currently discussing whether to disable Oracle's Java plug-in as a potential workaround for the recently disclosed SSL/TLS vulnerability. The Java plug-in is the component that enables attackers to exploit the vulnerabilities presented by Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong last week