Linux Today SECURITY LETTER FOR SEPTEMBER 8, 2000 Latest Security News for the Linux and Open Source Community. ___________________________ Sponsors ________________________________ This newsletter sponsored by: F-Secure Corporation _____________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ TODAY'S LINUX SECURITY NEWS: ------------------------------------------------------------------ CNET NEWS.COM: UNIX, LINUX COMPUTERS VULNERABLE TO DAMAGING NEW ATTACKS "Fans of Unix and its close relative, Linux, pride themselves on the general security of their operating systems compared with Microsoft Windows, which has been plagued with security problems. But the format string issue highlights the fact that weaknesses can lurk for years within software and that it's hard to track them down among hundreds of thousands of lines of programming code." 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