“Vendors have finally caught up on the INN and Kernel issues
(well almost…). A lot more exploit code has been released for a
number of packages, so if you are not up to date (heck, you’re
probably not reading this then..) you might want to spend the
weekend installing AutoRPM or setting up a dpkg script.
Mandrake also wins (hands down) the “easiest distribution to
break into remotely” and “easiest distribution to break into
locally”, having finally released 8 fixes for very severe security
bugs in 7.1 (their latest, not so greatest distribution). They
still haven’t got a central site for updates either, good luck
finding them.“
“We lead off with general advisories and exploit code, then
vendor ad. Most things are in alphabetical order. If we’re missing
a Linux vendor’s advisory please tell us, ditto for any Linux
related security alerts. The long strings of hex in front of
package names are MD5 signatures….”