“This week, many good papers were released. You should begin by
reading “Deploying the Squid proxy server on Linux,” “Is your web
server running unnecessary software,” and “The High Price of a
Vulnerability.” This last article is particularly interesting. The
author, Greg Shipley, states “IT managers can’t get upper
management to do anything about security.” Security often comes
second hand when it should be a primary concern. I think it is
merely a matter of time before many organizations see its actual
importance….”
“Thank you for reading the LinuxSecurity.com weekly security
newsletter. The purpose of this document is to provide our readers
with a quick summary of each week’s most relevant Linux security
headlines.”
“This week, advisories were released for pgp4pine, vixie-cron,
ssh, CUPS, glibc, bind, and sendmail. The vendors include Immunix,
NetBSD, Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE, TurboLinux. It is critical that
you update all vulnerable packages.”