BART officials promised Thursday to thoroughly investigate why technicians risked working on computers that control trains while the transit system was running, work that crashed BART's main computer, stalled 50 to 60 trains, and stranded 35,000 passengers for more than an hour at the peak of the Wednesday evening commute.
"The bottom line is we shouldn't have worked on it (during service hours)," BART spokesman Linton Johnson said. "We shouldn't have been working on it while trains were running."
Live CDs do a great job of advertising Linux distributions. In addition to general-purpose live CD distributions, there are lots of task-oriented live CDs. Wouldn't it be great if you could carry multiple live CDs on one DVD disc? Nautopia.net has put up a script that you can use to make a custom DVD to boot multiple live CDs.
Source: SecurityDump.com - Posted by Benjamin Thomas
A recently discovered vulnerability in Google Gmail allows automatic javascript execution when using the preview function. While Google filters javascript sent among Gmail accounts, e-mail from outside accounts such as Yahoo! are not filtered.
Greetings from all of us at Linuxsecurity.com. We've upgraded the site today to a newer version of Joomla (formerly Mambo), and replaced the old forums with a new more robust commenting system. Soon we'll be rolling out new RSS version 2.0 feeds, and we have some other new features planned for the coming weeks.
Source: Guardian Digital, Inc. - Posted by Pax Dickinson
Guardian Digital, Inc., the
world's premier provider of open source security solutions, today
announced the latest innovation of its product portfolio with the launch
of EnGarde Secure Linux: Community Edition, a freely-available version of its award-winning enterprise product. EnGarde is the first product to
bring complete Web-based management capability, Security-Enhanced Linux
functionality, and the ability to control a complete Internet presence in one platform.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. and Sourcefire, Inc., developers of Snort, today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for Check Point to acquire privately held Sourcefire for a total consideration of approximately $225 million.
Source: Net-Security.org - LogError - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
The Common Malware Enumeration Initiative was just announced. Headed by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) and supported by an editorial board of anti-virus vendors and related organizations it should provide a neutral, shared identification method for malware outbreaks.
California is the first US state to pass anti phishing laws. Finally someone went a step further into, at least, trying to create a more secure cyberspace. Here are some of the most important snippets from the act.
Websense released the 2005 Semi-Annual Web Security Trends Report issued by Websense Security Labs. The new report summarizes findings for the first half of 2005 and presents projections for the upcoming year.
