“This week during the election hoop-lah, a few good articles
were released. They include ” Building Linux and OpenBSD
Firewalls,” “The ABCs of IDSs (Intrusion Detection Systems),” and
“SSL In The Driver’s Seat.” Each cover different aspects of
security. Also this week, various firms are warning of possible DoS
attacks occurring during the Christmas holidays. It is never to
early to begin preparing for this, or any other remote attack.”
“This week, advisories were released for named, bind, gnupg,
tcsh, ncurses, telnetd, nss_ldap, openssh, cups, modutiles, pine,
and imap. The vendors include Caldera, Debian, FreeBSD, Mandrake,
Conectiva, Immunix, Trustix, Red Hat, Slackware and SuSE. It is
critical that you update all vulnerable packages to reduce the risk
of being compromised. Many of the vulnerabilites described are root
compromises. Also, if you are running bind/named, make sure that
you upgrade so you are not vulnerable to DoS attacks.”