“A few good papers were released this week. Some of the best
include “Linux security basics,” “Top Ten Secure Shell FAQs,” and
“GnuPG: An Open Solution to Data Protection.” If you are just
getting started in security these articles may prove to be very
helpful.”
“Benjamin Thomas just released a product review covering the
Arkeia backup solution for Linux. The review covers a combination
of the Arkia software and the Ecrix rakpak dual 66G drive,
discussion of the features, security, usage, documentation, and
support.”
“This week, advisories were released for icecast, MySQL, kdesu,
glibc, splitvt, micq, sash, wu-ftpd, jazip, tinyproxy, squid, php,
apache, exmh, ipfw, ip6fw, XFree86, crontab, and bind. The vendors
include Conectiva, Caldera, Debian, FreeBSD, Mandrake, Red Hat,
SuSE, and Trustix.”