“This week, a few interesting papers were released. Among them
were, “Implementing and Managing Linux System Security,”
“Understanding Linux file permissions,” and “Implementing PKI.”
Another interesting article is “Quantum crypto one step closer.” It
discusses some of the latest advancements in cryptography.”
“This week, advisories were released for mgetty, perl, xchat,
umb-scheme, wu-ftpd, man, getty_ps, in, squid, arpwatch, useradd,
rdist, gpm, and glibc. The vendors include Debian, LinuxPPC,
Immunix, Mandrake and Red Hat. It is critical that you update all
vulnerable packages.”