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Databases a soft touch for hackers

23 January 2002

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Source: vnunet - Posted by Jen Olson
More than 10 per cent of corporate databases connected to the internet have suffered security breaches in the last year, according to new research. A survey of 750 corporates developing databases conducted by US firm Evans Data found that, against a . . .
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Problems with sudo, at, and efax

23 January 2002

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Source: O'Reilly Network - Posted by Jen Olson
In this column, we look at buffer overflows in clanlib, efax, LibGTop, and icecast-server; and problems in sudo, at, cdrdao, Conectiva Linux's MySQL, Open UNIX and UnixWare 7 xterms, Red Hat's Secure Web Server, Mandrake's BIND, xchat, klprfax_filter, and an HP-UX denial-of-service attack.. . .
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Configuring OpenSSH for the Solaris Operating Environment

23 January 2002

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Source: Sun - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
Networks have never been secure. As the demand on open networks for remote access has grown, the risks of compromised systems and accounts has kept pace. Tools for securing networks, such as OpenSSH, were developed to counter the threats of password . . .
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Security of wireless networking still an afterthought

23 January 2002

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Source: VNUNet - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
Enterasys Networks has rolled out the biggest wireless network in the education sector but admitted it has yet to perform a thorough security audit. Ninestiles School in Birmingham is using 38 Enterasys Roamabout R2 access points to connect its 1,400 . . .
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Slackware: Multiple updates

22 January 2002

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Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team
New packages are now available to address security issues with the atscheduler program (found in Slackware 8.0's bin.tgz package), sudo, andxchat.
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