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+---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | LinuxSecurity.com Weekly Newsletter | | October 14th, 2002 Volume 3, Number 40n | | | | Editorial Team: Dave Wreski dave () linuxsecurity com | | Benjamin Thomas ben () linuxsecurity com | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thank you for reading the LinuxSecurity.com weekly security newsletter. The purpose of this document is to provide our readers with a quick summary of each week's most relevant Linux security headlines. This week, perhaps the most interesting articles include "Fingerprinting Exploits In System And Application Log Files," "Stenographied File Transfer Using Posix File Locks," "Security Tools in Linux Distributions," and "Ten Minute Firewall." ** ENCRYPTION + AUTHENTICATION = TRUST ** You may think people will regard your business as trustworthy because you've got a 128-bit encryption certificate, but encryption does not guarantee trust. Thawte believes in rigorous authentication. Download our FREE Authentication Guide: http://www.gothawte.com/rd406.html BOOK REVIEW: Honeypots: Tracking Hackers Tracking Hackers by Lance Spitzner is fantastically written. The detailed definitions and descriptions make it a great book even for the honeypot novice to understand. It grabs your attention right from the very beginning, holds it to the end and leaves you wanting more. http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/feature_story-121.html Linux Security Week: This week, advisories were released for tomcat, tkmail, htmail, fetchmail, buzilla, libkvm, Konqueror, talkd, sendmail, pic, libc, rouge, apache, hylafax, php, tcpdump, gv, and nss_ldap. The vendors include Conectiva, Debian, EnGarde, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Red Hat, and SuSE. http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/forums_article-5891.html +---------------------+ | Host Security News: | . http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/government_article-5861.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Distributed by: Guardian Digital, Inc. LinuxSecurity.com To unsubscribe email newsletter-request () linuxsecurity com with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ISN is currently hosted by Attrition.org To unsubscribe email majordomo () attrition org with 'unsubscribe isn' in the BODY of the mail.