“In the news this week, CERT warned of looming DoS attacks, IBM
claims faster encryption technology, and OpenBSD 2.8 was officially
released. A few good papers include “Securing Linux: Part 1,” “An
Introduction to Incident Handling,” and “Best Practices in Network
Security.” You should consider reading each article.”
“This week, advisories were released for bash, fsh, ed, me,
pine, netscape, joe, ethereal, ghostscript, bind, ncurses,
modutils, gnorpm, usermode, apache, cyrus-sasl, nsslap, and
openssh. The vendors include Caldera, Debian, Immunix, Mandrake,
Red Hat, and SuSE. It is critical that you update all vulnerable
packages to reduce the risk of being compromised.”