Linux under threat from &#39;security update&#39;
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Linux maker Red Hat is warning users about an email that pretends to be an official security advisory but is actually a phishing-type scam that contains links to malicious code.
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The key security update for Windows XP looks set to cause trouble for thousands of firms reveals a survey.
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The company warns of serious vulnerabilities in its IOS software, releases update.
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Ziff Davis - Security sources announce four mostly unrelated enterprise vulnerabilities in Cisco Unity, Cisco Guard, Veritas' Backup Exec, and Samba, the Windows file-sharing utility for Linux.
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In this new advisory posted on the Secunia.com site today, there's an announcement of a highly critical update for Ubuntu users for their PHP distributions.   Ubuntu has issued an update for php. This fixes some vulnerabilities, where some have unknown impacts and others can be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions and potentially by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.   Check out the posting to grab the links for the packages for the various distributions (and for the different version numbers of Ubuntu). As this issue is marked as "highly critical" it's recommended that you update your installation as soon as possible.
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in version five of the widely-used Kerberos authentication protocol. The most serious could be exploited by crackers to gain root control to authentication servers.
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Via this Secunia advisory posted today, there's information about the update the Fedora Linux group has made to the PHP package included in their distribution. According to the release:   This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions and by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and cause a DoS (Denial of Service).   The original advisory post has more details on what the update fixes as well as the link to download the RPM packages to update your system. You can either manually download them or use the "yum" system to handle things a bit more automatically.
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Company says affected servers were running old, unpatched versions of Ubuntu as well as a number of insecure Web applications.
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rPath linux has issued an update to their packages for PHP, PHP-MySQL and PHP-PGSql to correct issues that could make it possible for a remote user to gain unauthorized access.   his fixes some vulnerabilities, where some have unknown impacts and others can be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions or by malicious people to potentially compromise a vulnerable system.   References and links to the update information can be found in their original advisory.
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A US security company is warning that it has found ten &#39;serious&#39; vulnerabilities in Windows XP systems with SP2 installed.
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The Red Hat linux group has issued an update for their PHP packages today:   Red Hat has issued an update for php. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions and by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and cause a DoS (Denial of Service).   You can get more information about this moderate level advisory from the Red Hat advisory including the affected products and the list of packages that should be updated to bring your installation up to date.
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Red Hat is warning users that an email purporting to be a security update may contain malicious code. The email - which began appearing last Friday - uses a security@redhat
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Though Microsoft Corp.&#39;s new security update package is all about protecting systems from worms, viruses and spyware, it can&#39;t do much about what&#39;s already on computers -- and that could pose a problem.
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Joining the ranks of Windows&#39; users who have been victimized by spoofed security alerts, Linux users this weekend received bogus messages directing them to download updates that are in fact Trojan horses, Red Hat announced Saturday.
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Considered important vulnerabilities that leave users open to attack in Microsoft&#39;s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows for desktop and server installations, the Redmond
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New threats to Unix users include a widely used software development aid known as concurrent version control, according to the latest annual Sans Top 20 vulnerability report.
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While security experts applaud Microsoft&#39;s recently released Service Pack 2, some companies that distribute their software over the Web are watching the product&#39;s introduction with dread and suspicion.