Shocking news surfaces today as it appears there MAY be a security hole in Windows...

Microsoft said Sunday it's looking into reports of a security screw-up in Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), a component of its most popular server software, including Windows NT 4.0 Server, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows Server 2003.

Several major Linux vendors have warned they are vulnerable to four flaws in a widely used IMAP e-mail server from Carnegie Mellon University's Cyrus Electronic Mail Project. The flaws could allow an attacker to take over a server.

This week, advisories were released for bugzilla, samba, bnc, sudo, Cyrus, yardradius, AbiWord, unarj, pdftohtml, ProZilla, phpBB, TWiki, XFree86, libxpm4, a2ps, zip, kdebase, and kdelibs. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandrake, Openwall, and Trustix.

The vulnerability, found by Finnish security researcher Jouko Pynnonen in June, was patched last month by Sun, but its details were not made public until Tuesday. Security information provider Secunia posted information about the flaw in an advisory that rated it a "highly critical" threat.

The X.Org Foundation and several Linux vendors have released updates for the X Window System technology on which most Linux graphical front-ends are based, fixing serious security flaws in a graphics-manipulation component.

For the past four years the SANS Institute has partnered with the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Centre to compile and publish its list of the most commonly exploited IT security vulnerabilities for both Windows and UNIX systems. This list is regularly updated and revised.

Although, this is a Windows specific issue, it merited attention due to the sheer volume of people affected, including some Linux related sites being a distributing point(not ours :) ).

If you know anyone using IE that has NOT installed service pack 2 for Windows XP, you better help them clean up their machine. It is clear that IE can no longer be trusted for anything. Our recommendation, install Firefox 1.0 IMMEDIATELY. And visit Linuxlinks.com for your news needs, we don't use ad servers.

International experts from business, government, and academia will be sharing their experiences with SELinux, and discussing the latest research and development results. The event will be the first of its kind to examine the emerging SELinux technology and the power of flexible mandatory access control in Linux as provided by type enforcement. Registration for the SELinux Symposium, scheduled for March 2-4, 2005 in Silver Spring, Maryland, is now open.

This week, advisories were released for libxml2, MySQL, imagemagick, Apache, fetch, Ruby, BNC, Squirrelmail, gd, sudo, totem, drakxtools, httpd, freeradius, libxml2, and iptables. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, Suse, and Trustix.

Calling all Fedora Core fans interested in SE Linux, all 2 of you...this article highlights the changes in SE Linux from version 2 to 3 of Fedora Core.

This is one of those articles I found interesting, because I use FC and find SE Linux intriguing, but probably not many else will. However, I had to post it because I'd have read it. Someone humor me and read this. :)

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