“This week many good articles were released. A few of them
include, “OpenSSH installation and configuration,” “Postfix – The
Sendmail Replacement” and “Filesystem Security: ext2 extended
attributes.” If you are interested in firewalls, you may want to
read “Introduction to Firewalls,” “Top Ten Blocking Recommendations
Using ipchains” and “Chapter 6 from Building Internet Firewalls.”
Each of these articles provide useful information that can help you
obtain greater network security.”
“This week, advisories were released for modutils,
ghostscript, elvis-tiny, xmcd, ncurses, joe, ethereal, tcpdump,
CUPS, cron, openssh, tcsh/csh, php, thttpd, curl, mgetty, telnet,
pine. The vendors include Conectiva, Debain, FreeBSD, Mandrake
and Red Hat. It was a big week for both Debain and FreeBSD. It is
critical that you update all vulnerable packages to reduce the risk
of being compromised.”