OpenOffice.org has released a patch for the recent security hole discovered. Isn't it amazing how quick they released it? :)

All users of OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 are urged to download and install this security patch. It addresses a problem noted in a recent advisory. That advisory states that there is a security risk in all circulating releases of OpenOffice.org. This patch fixes the problem in 1.1.4 but not in earlier or subsequent releases.

A buffer overflow exploit has been discovered in OpenOffice.

The OpenOffice.org community on Tuesday confirmed the existence of a potentially serious heap-overflow vulnerability in its freely distributed office productivity suite.

It's Friday, that means Linux.com has issued their Linux Advisory Watch.

This week, advisories were released for MySQL, samba, ImageMagick, krb5, remstats, wu-ftpd, sharutils, util-linux, words, gaim, e2fsprogs, subversion, ipsec-tools, libexif, htdig, grip, gtk2, tetex, curl, gdk-pixbuf, and XFree86. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, and SuSE.

Mozilla is close to releasing version 1.0.3 of Firefox.

The Mozilla Foundation is close to releasing a security update to its popular Firefox Web browser, the group said Thursday.

Despite all the claims that Microsoft has greatly improved security, the data shows otherwise. In fact, it appears it's getting worse.

Virus encounters, virus disasters, malicious code -- and the recovery time and costs associated with these events -- are on the rise, according to a new survey.

If the stars align...and you are using Firefox 1.0 or earlier, you might be vunerable to a javascript bug. However, if you are using the latest versions of Firefox, you are ok. Meanwhile, Mozilla is working on a final patch.

A flaw has been discovered in the popular open-source browser Firefox that could expose sensitive information stored in memory, Secunia has warned.

It may be April 1st, but we aren't going to joke about security here. Time to visit Linux.com for the weekly Linux Advisory Watch.

This week, advisories were released for ethereal, kernel, netkit-telnet, mc, mailreader, samba, mozilla, lsof, thunderbird, epiphany, devhelp, spamassassin, slypheed, krb5, xorg, telnet, foomatic, squid, ImageMagick, gdk, mpg321, ipsec-tools, htdig, grip, mysql, XFree86, and MySQL. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, and SuSE.

VoIP is here to stay and this group is attempting to make it more secure.

MARCH 29, 2005 - A group formed to head off voice-over-IP (VoIP) security problems laid out its first set of priorities yesterday: setting up a taxonomy to classify threats and establishing the requirements for making VoIP secure.

Every Friday, we head over to Linux.com to check the Linux Advisory Watch. That means today will be no different. :)

This week, advisories were released for cyrus-imapd, curl, xloadimage, xli, PERL, slypheed, libgal2, libsoup, evolution, gimp, procps, lsof, lockdev, xloadimage, mailman, boost, kdelibs, firefox, thunderbird, mozilla, devhelp, epiphany, rxvt, LTris, MySQL, ethereal, ipsec-tools, and ImageMagick. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Fedora, Genotoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, and SuSE.

The author of this Linux.com article describes his experience of being hacked and the steps he took to regain control of his Debian based servers.

Last week I was faced with the situation every user and administrator dreads -- my Web server was hacked. Here's hoping you can use my experience as a guide to investigating your own compromised server, if and when the time comes.

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