“As the Microsoft story begins to cool down, various stories on
general network security were written. The article, “Hactivist
threats on the rise,” states that “computer hackers with political
agendas have become a fast-growing threat to big companies
worldwide.” Companies are not the only organizations effected, the
United States government has started a program to provide cyber
attack guidance to other agencies.”
“This week, advisories were released for gnupg, ypbind,
getnameinfo, top, tcpdump, boa, pine, chpass, cfengine, libutil,
nis, dump, nss_ldap, and incurses. The vendors include,
Conectiva, Caldera, FreeBSD, NetBDS, Red Hat, SuSE, and Trustix. It
is critical that you update all vulnerable packages to reduce the
risk of being compromised.”