======================================================== SEARCHSOLARIS.COM - SOLARIS OPERATING SYSTEM AND IT INDUSTRY NEWS July 26, 2001 More headlines at: http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/news/0,289141,sid12,00.html ======================================================== SPONSORED BY: whatis?com =================================================== Visit the Web's most comprehensive online technology encyclopedia! Whatis.com defines more than 2,700 of the most important tech terms in plain English. Search for a term or navigate by category. Check out Fast Reference guides for a quick summary of everything from connection speeds to online color palettes. And don't miss Every File Format in the World, the Web's largest list of file extensions and the programs that use them. It's all free at http://whatis.com. =================================================== LEAD STORY "New Telnet hole affects some Unix-based servers" A security hole has been found in a Unix-based operating system that could let hackers take over or crash the Web server. The problem centers around the Telnetd program of FreeBSD's open-source operating systems built on Berkeley Software Design code. Security experts aren't sure if HP-UX or Solaris could be affected. SOURCE: ComputerWorld http://www.idg.net/ic_657014_1773_1-3921.html Read CERT's take on this hole at http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-21.html. If this hole ends up sullying Solaris, we'll add it to our rich collection of Solaris security stories at http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid12_gci756562,00.html. =============================================== OTHER SOLARIS AND INDUSTRY NEWS =============================================== [1] "Microsoft acknowledges problem with services for Unix" [2] "Hewlett-Packard to cut 6,000 jobs, miss 3rd-qtr sales" [3] "Sun, Apple, Transmeta to support AMD's HyperTransport" [1] "Microsoft acknowledges problem with services for Unix" In another episode of "As the Patch Turns," Microsoft has plugged a memory hole in the latest version of its Unix interoperability software. A bad person could use the hole in Services for Unix (SFU) 2.0 to crash Windows NT and Windows 2000 servers. The patch will be included in SFU 3.0. SOURCE: ENT Magazine http://www.entmag.com/breaknews.asp?ID=4766 =============================================== [2] "Hewlett-Packard to cut 6,000 jobs, miss 3rd-qtr sales" The good news is HP will save $500 million per year. The bad news is those savings come at a cost of 6,000 pink slips. The company will fire more than 6% of its workforce for the sake of fiscal health. HP's sales this quarter are below expectations. SOURCE: Bloomberg News http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?ptitle=Technology%20News&s1=blk&tp=ad_topright_tech&T=markets_bfgcgi_content99.ht&s2=ad_right1_technology&bt=ad_position1_technology&middle=ad_frame2_technology&s=AO2AfkBRjSGV3bGV0 =============================================== [3] "Sun, Apple, Transmeta to support AMD's HyperTransport" Advanced Micro Devices has formed the HyperTransport Technology Consortium to spread the word on its chip communication technology. Sun is a charter member of the group. 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SOURCE: searchSecurity http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/ateQuestion/0,289624,sid14_tax285453,00.html See all of our hand-picked BEST WEB LINKS at http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,,sid12,00.html. ================ THE MISSING LINK A look at an off-the-wall story from the Web... ================ "The humiliation virus" Here's another really good reason not to put into writing anything you wouldn't say aloud to a room full of people. Sircam, the latest virus spreading on the Net, grabs a random document from your computer's hard drive, hides itself in the code, then passes on the infected document to everyone in your digital address book. That means any document on your hard drive is fair game for distribution to practically everyone you know. SOURCE: Salon http://salon.com/tech/log/2001/07/26/sircam/index.html ================================================= SOUND OFF! 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