LINUX TODAY SECURITY LETTER FOR MAY 01, 2000
Latest Security News for the Linux and Open Source Community.
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TODAY'S LINUX SECURITY NEWS:
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CNET NEWS.COM: EXPERT WARNS OF POWERFUL NEW [DDOS] HACKER TOOL
"A potent new software tool has emerged for launching attacks
similar to, but more lethal than, the ones that took down Yahoo
and other major Web sites in February."
COMPLETE STORY:
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1798064.html?tag=st.ne.1002.lthd.1003-200-1798064
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INTER@CTIVE WEEK: LINUX: TESTING, SECURITY CONCERNS RAISED
"A security hole has appeared in a recent version of Red Hat
Linux, and a security expert said it highlights a more general
weakness in open source code products: no quality assurance
testing before hitting the market."
COMPLETE STORY:
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2558624,00.html
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SUSE SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT - AAA_BASE - UPDATE
"The original announcement pointed to update rpms which were
old and did *NOT* fix the vulnerabilities."
COMPLETE STORY:
http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=21145
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MIMESTAR.COM: DETECTING AND DECODING "MSTREAM" ACTIVITY
"In response to the surfacing of this attack tool and the
published analysis of its inner workings, we have developed a
set of SNP-L scripts and attack signatures which allow one to
detect and decode 'mstream' network activity."
COMPLETE STORY:
http://www.MimeStar.com/html/mstream.htm
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LinuxStart <http://www.linuxstart.com>,
Linux Central <http://www.linuxcentral.com>,
and JustLinux <http://www.justlinux.com>.
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<http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/moderated/isp-linux/>.
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