Friday, the guys at Linux.com were a little late with this week's advisory. And since I believe in better late than never, I'm going to post Friday's security warning for the week today on Monday.

This week, advisories were released for zgv, atari800, MyODBC, mikmod, gstreamer, grep, flim, kdelibs, kdebase, selinux-policy-targeted, xcdroast, udev, PHProjekt, nfs-utils, ncpfs, vim, evolution, mkdonline, iproute, libpng, postgresql, IPSec, imlib, ruby, ncompress, and mod_ssl. The distributors include Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandrake, OpenBSD, Red Hat, and TurboLinux.

Wednesday we brought you a review of a O'Reilly book on SELinux. Today, we bring you an informative interview with it's author Bill McCarty.

If a must-have, must-know innovation exists for Linux's future viability, you might place all bets on Security Enhanced Linux. Vastly misunderstood and underrated, SELinux provides a marketing differentiator that could carry Linux deep into infrastructures that so far have shown lukewarm acceptance of the open-source operating system. SELinux transforms standard Linux from a cost-effective and secure operating system into a behemoth.

For all the "web monkeys" in our audience...

The PHP Development Team would like to announce the immediate release of PHP 4.3.10 and PHP 5.0.3. These are maintenance releases that in addition to non-critical bug fixes address several very serious security issues. All Users of PHP are strongly encouraged to upgrade to one of these releases as soon as possible.

For the dual booters out there, 1 "critical" and 5 "important" security updates for Windows.

In addition to the bulletin for the problem in WINS, Microsoft addressed flaws in WordPad (MS04-041), DHCP (MS04-042), HyperTerminal (MS04-043) and the Windows kernel and LSASS (MS04-044). Attacks enabled by the flaws ranged from denial-of-service to remote code execution to elevation of privileges.

Every week we provide(with the help of Linux.com) the Linux Advisory Watch, which does an excellent job at listing the security warnings for the week covering all linux distributions.

This week, advisories were released for hpsockd, viewvcs, nfs-util, cyrus-imapd, netatalk, gaim, rhpl, ttfonts, mc, udev, gnome-bluetooth, rsh, mysql, libpng, glib, gtk, postgresql, shadow-utils, perl, mirrorselect, drakxtools, dietlib, gzip, rp-ppoe, openssl, ImageMagick, samba, and cups. The distributors include Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE, Trustix, and Turbo Linux.

This story has been bouncing around the net for a couple days. However, I couldn't find a single article that presented it in the correct light, until now.

A security researcher has uncovered another set of security flaws in an image component, which could put Linux users at risk of system compromise if they view a maliciously crafted image.

The bugs, in the imlib image library found in most Linux systems, haven't been patched by the library's developer, but Linux vendors are currently rushing out patches. So far the Gentoo Foundation, Novell's SuSE business unit and others have released fixes.

Secunia, the world's biggest party poopers, have exposed yet ANOTHER security hole exploiting the world wide web. This one, hits EVERY browser in existence!

Danish security research firm Secunia has reported a vulnerability that occurs in most browsers that can be exploited by hackers looking to spoof the content of Web sites. And they say repeated warnings have fallen on deaf ears.

Maybe Windows IS a VIRUS. It keeps spreading to things I don't want it on, causing harm...

Trend Micro on Monday followed in the footsteps of rivals like Symantec by introducing anti-virus and anti-spam software for handhelds and smart cell phones.

This week advisories were released for java, abiworld, cyrus, squirrelmail, libgd1, openssl, hpsockd, policycoreutils, prelink, libselinux, udev, tcpdump, samba, gaim, FreeBSD kernel, phpMyAdmin, libxpm4, kde, amavisd, open motif, linux kernel, and cyrus-imapd. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandrake, Trustix, Red Hat, and SuSE.

With all the news today in the United States about baseball players getting caught taking steroids tainting the "national pastime", I thought this article from USA Today/Reuters warranted mentioning.

As we all know, those who run Windows are quickly becoming used to regularly patching security holes that originate from Internet Explorer. Today, Microsoft has released another update.

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