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Linux Security Week: January 27th, 2009
Source: LinuxSecurity.com Contributors - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
This week, perhaps the most interesting articles include "PostgreSQL Team Soliciting Security Insight," "sVirt slides from LCA," and "Remote access using NX and OpenSuse."
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EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.22 Now Available! (Dec 9)
Guardian Digital is happy to announce the release of EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.22 (Version 3.0, Release 22). This release includes many updated packages and bug fixes and some feature enhancements to the EnGarde Secure Linux Installer and the SELinux policy.
PostgreSQL Team Soliciting Security Insight (Jan 26)
This message came across my INBOX this weekend:
The PostgreSQL community is considering including security enhancements in Postgres 8.4, e.g. row-level permissions and SE-Linux security. However, to evaluate the patch and its usefulness, we need security experts who want to use this capability or have used it in other databases.
If you use PostgreSQL and are interested in contributing in the discussion, click-through to read more!
James Morris just gave a presentation on sVirt at linux.conf.au this year and just posted his slides:
The talk seemed to go reasonably well, and had a larger audience than I expected given that Tridge and Willy were talking at the same time. A video of the talk should appear online soon.
If you're unfamiliar with the sVirt project this is a great way to get introduced to it, and if you're following the sVirt project this is still a good read!
Frank Neugebauer submitted the following: NoMachine NX is a solution for secure remote access, desktop virtualization, and hosted desktop deployment using compression, session resilience and resource management. It integrations a powerful audio, printing and resource sharing capabilities and makes it possible to run any graphical application (e.g KDE, Gnome etc.) across the network connection. Click-thru to see the rest of his tip!
