Linux Today SECURITY LETTER FOR JULY 24, 2000 Latest Security News for the Linux and Open Source Community. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ TODAY'S LINUX SECURITY NEWS: ------------------------------------------------------------------ LINUXLOOKUP.COM: LINUX SECURITY GUIDE "The best we can do to protect ourselves is to learn, to adapt, and to prepare the defenses for the onslaught that is the Internet. The object of this guide is to give you a good start, on your way to securing your Linux system from malicious attacks." COMPLETE STORY: http://www.linuxlookup.com/html/guides/security.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ CANADA COMPUTES: LINUX USERS STILL VULNERABLE TO SNOOPS "In Linux, there is no system registry, so there is no easy way for companies to track much information about you. The prospect of software in Linux sending information without my knowledge, while possible, hardly seemed worth worrying about. That is, until recently." COMPLETE STORY: http://www.canadacomputes.com/v2/story/1,1378,4767,00.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ LINUXSECURITY.COM: LINUX SECURITY WEEK, JULY 24, 2000 "This week, advisories for the nfs-utils vulnerability were released. Although there are currently no known exploits for this bug, in theory, it can be used for gaining root access remotely. Advisories for nkitb, LISTSERV, wu-ftpd, gpm, and dhcp were also released." COMPLETE STORY: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/newsletter.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ SECURITY PORTAL: WEEKLY LINUX SECURITY DIGEST 2000/07/17 TO 2000/07/23 "Quite a few patches issued this week. On several distributions, rpc.statd (embodied as nfs-utils usually) was found to have some holes (remote root access), and also in usermod, a package that lets non-root users reboot or halt the system (you�d think they would have taken special care with this one - apparently not)." COMPLETE STORY: http://www.securityportal.com/topnews/weekly/linux20000724.html /-------------------------------------------------------------------\ LOOKING FOR LINUX PRODUCT REVIEWS? Linux Central has teamed with JustLinux to provide a comprehensive list of product reviews. 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