Joe Brockmeier takes an interesting look at virus protection in Linux, is it really necessary?? Find out...

"It's an insurance company's dream: Sell policies for something so unlikely to occur that you'll get to scoop up premiums and never have to pay out. That's pretty much what's going on with companies selling antivirus products for Linux."

In the "well I guess it can't be shocking" department, something that attempts to interface with windows has a security hole...

German security researcher Stefan Esser has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in smbfs, the mountable SMB (Server Message Block) file system for Linux.

Because we all have friends/family members that use it...

This week, three more vulnerabilities were found in version 6 of the software giant's flagship Web browser, security information provider Secunia said on Wednesday. That brings the total number of IE vulnerabilities disclosed in the past two months to 19, including eight flaws fixed by Microsoft during its October patch cycle.

Imagine having separate login names and passwords for your desktop machine, email account, and the main application that you use for your job. At the same time, you might have a different user name/password combination for a web application or other programs. Then imagine, that all the systems you use enforce password aging, on different time schedules. In short order, the situation gets way out of hand.

It's a situation that Imprivata, Inc. hopes to improve with today's launch of OneSign 2.6, an enterprise single sign-on appliance that is now optimized for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.

Red Hat last week released Fedora Core 3, the latest version of its cutting-edge Linux distribution, including a redesigned version of Security Enhanced Linux (SE Linux).

While the software is aimed at developers and enthusiasts, it is seen as a testing ground for technologies that can later be built into the enterprise distribution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). SE Linux is a case in point: Red Hat and other SE Linux developers have used the feedback from the version included in Fedora Core 2 to make the system more usable in the real world.

This week, advisories were released for rsync, squid, subversion, gaim, apache, postgresql, mpg123, abiword, iptables, xpdf, libxml, lvm10, hdcp, ppp, Apache, speedtouch, proxytunnel, shadow, mysql, netalk, mod_ssl, and libtiff. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandrake, Openwall, Slackware, and Trustix.

This week, advisories were released for mozilla, zlib, kernel, glib2, MySQL, Gaim, MIT, Netatalk, socat, mpg123, rssh, xpdf, gpdf, cups, kdegraphics, squid, and libtiff. The distributors include Conectiva, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, and SuSE.

This week, advisories were released for libtiff, libpng, ecartis, BNC, phpMyAdmin, Squid, PostgreSQL, Ghostscript, glibc, CUPS, mod_ssl, mozilla, cvs, gaim, wxGTK2, squid, wxGTK2, xpdf, gpdf, kdegraphics, ImageMagick, and mysql. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE, and Trustix.

That seemed to be Wednesday's lesson from security information provider Secunia for the developers of the major Internet browsers. The company released information on two common security issues with the tabbed browsing feature found in several flavors of the Mozilla Foundation's browsers, the Opera browser, the Konqueror browser for Linux and two third-party plug-ins that add the feature to Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

A series of recently announced security flaws open Linux and related technologies to attacks ranging from denials of service and local exploits to the potential for remote system compromise.

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