[ISN] Linux Security Week - June 14th 2004

2004-06-15 Thread InfoSec News
+-+ | LinuxSecurity.comWeekly Newsletter | | June 14th, 2004 Volume 5, Number 24n | | | |

[ISN] Apple Makes Its Case for Security

2004-06-15 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,63805,00.html By Leander Kahney June 14, 2004 Apple is a famously secretive company. Its hush-hush culture makes it impossible for employees to talk about their work, even with spouses or family members. This may help keep new products a surprise, but it has

[ISN] OPM outlines four steps for IT security training

2004-06-15 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/26205-1.html By Jason Miller GCN Staff 06/14/04 The Office of Personnel Management today outlined a four-step process for agencies to follow to ensure employees, contractors and others who access federal systems are adequately trained in IT security.

[ISN] Hackers target government holes

2004-06-15 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0614/web-holes-06-14-04.asp By Brian Robinson June 14, 2004 Global threats such as the Blaster and SQL Slammer worms batter government network defenses as much as those in the commercial arena, but attacks that actually penetrate the network are focused on

[ISN] New Linux Security Hole Found

2004-06-15 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1612480,00.asp By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols June 14, 2004 A Linux bug was recently uncovered by a young Norwegian programmer that, when exploited by a simple C program, could crash most Linux 2.4 or 2.6 distributions running on an x86 architecture.

[ISN] Gambling on Voting

2004-06-15 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/13/opinion/13SUN1.html June 13, 2004 If election officials want to convince voters that electronic voting can be trusted, they should be willing to make it at least as secure as slot machines. To appreciate how poor the oversight on voting systems is, it's