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Sourcefire Rolls Out Open-Source 'Razorback'

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The makers of the popular open-source Snort intrusion detection platform today unveiled a new open-source platform -- a detection framework that unites existing security tools, including IDS/IPSes.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 28, 2010

Mozilla re-patches Firefox 3.6 to fix plug-in problem

For the second time in two months, Mozilla on Friday rushed out a fix for Firefox to patch a problem with a browser update issued just days before. Mozilla shipped Firefox 3.6.8 on Friday to patch a single security problem and deal with what Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox, called "a stability problem that affected some pages with embedded plug-ins."

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 26, 2010

Dell offering free Web browser security tool

Dell, through its Kace unit, is making available free Web browser security software that works by creating a protective "sandbox" on the desktop to isolate the user's desktop from malware or other harmful actions that might be encountered browsing the Web.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 19, 2010

Security expert releases Ubuntu Linux distro for malware analysis

A security consultant has released a Ubuntu-based Linux distribution specifically designed to help analyze and re-engineer malware. Lenny Zeltser on Thursday released REMnux on Sourceforge and it has already been downloaded nearly 2,000 times.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 13, 2010

Free products dominate security software market

High brand visibility from large security vendors doesn't necessarily mean that their products dominate the market, according to a new study of security software.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 08, 2010

Mozilla Releases Firefox 4 Beta

The Mozilla Foundation has released an early beta of the upcoming version 4 of Firefox, its flagship cross-platform browser for Windows, OS X, and Linux. The long-awaited release introduces a number of improvements and additions over previous versions of Firefox. Firefox 3 came out two years ago, while version 3.5 of the Web browser debuted in 2009.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 07, 2010

Google Updates Chrome for 10 Security Flaws

Google is updating the stable version of its Chrome Web browser for Windows, Mac and Linux, addressing a handful of security vulnerabilities -- including four that could put users at risk simply by viewing a maliciously constructed image file.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 07, 2010

Mozilla tweaks new plug-in protection

Mozilla pushed out a minor update to Firefox on Saturday, slightly adjusting the new plug-in crash protection feature that was introduced last week. Firefox 3.6.6 for Windows and Linux delays the amount of time that the plug-in protection module will wait before terminating an unresponsive plug-in.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 28, 2010

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2 improves scale, performance, and security

Linux giant Red Hat is moving the ball forward on its mission of becoming a key virtualization and cloud infrastructure player. To that end, the company has announced the latest release of its Enterprise Virtualization hypervisor, version 2.2.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 25, 2010

VeriSign SSL certs open to tampering, competitor warns

VeriSign and one of its partners have come under fire for publicly exposing webpages used to process customer security certificates, a practice a competitor claims puts some of the biggest names on the web at risk of serious targeted attacks.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 25, 2010

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.4 Delivers Stability and Security

Mozilla is updating its Firefox Web browser with new technology that is targeted at making the open source browser more stable. The Firefox 3.6.4 release also includes fixes for four critical security vulnerabilities.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 24, 2010

Dell u-turns on Ubuntu security

Last week, we commented on the fact that Dell was hyping up the Linix distribution Ubuntu on its web site, much to the detriment of Microsoft's Windows. Dell was proud of the fact it has been flogging Ubuntu-equipped machines since 2007 and we can only assume it makes more margin on such machines since it doesn't have to pay Microsoft its Windows tax.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 21, 2010

Apple accused of hushing up security update

Apple has been accused of secretly adding a security update to its operating system without telling users, or anyone else. The update released last week included protection against a Trojan that could allow a hacker to take control of your machine.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 21, 2010

Ubuntu 'more secure' than Windows, says Dell

Dell reckons Ubuntu offers more protection than Windows online as it convinces consumer PC shoppers they shouldn't be scared of Linux. In a statement flagged here by TheVarGuy.com, Dell picked on security as one of ten reasons why people should buy PCs running Canonical's Linux rather than Microsoft's operating system.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 14, 2010

Zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player, Reader and Acrobat

According to a security advisory from Adobe, there is a critical vulnerability in Flash Player 10.0.45.2 (and earlier versions) and in the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.0; Windows, Mac OS X, Unix and Linux versions are all vulnerable. Attackers can exploit the hole to crash the software or gain control of the system and there are already reports of exploitation in the wild for all three products.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 06, 2010

Google's WebM license could undermine the meaning of 'open source'

As Apple and Adobe sparred over the inclusion of Flash in the iPhone OS, supporters of the emerging HTML5 standard -- including Apple, Google, and Microsoft -- touted the H.264 video codec specified in HTML5 as a reason that Flash is unnecessary. But H.264 is proprietary technology that requires a license for use and redistribution, which effectively means Mozilla can't adopt it for the open source Firefox browser.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 01, 2010

ClamAV 0.96.1 fixes DoS vulnerabilities

Version 0.96.1 of ClamAV, the free and open source toolkit, fixes bugs which cause it to crash when faced with crafted PDF and PE files. Attackers had been able to exploit these vulnerabilities to disrupt network operation, allowing them to disable web proxies or mail gateways, for example.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 25, 2010

Symantec confirms VeriSign deal

In case your boss ever questions whether security is big business... Symantec will pay US$1.28 billion to acquire VeriSign's security business. The two companies confirmed the rumored acquisition, saying it would give VeriSign the opportunity to focus on its more-profitable domain name business, while allowing Symantec to broaden its growing portfolio of enterprise security products. l.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 20, 2010

Samba update fixes DoS vulnerabilities

Released last week, version 3.4.8 of the free Samba file and print server fixes various holes including two denial of service (DoS) vulnerabilities which allow attackers to remotely crash the Smbd service. One of the problems is caused by a null pointer dereference when processing a certain series of SMB headers that include a specific combination of flags.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 19, 2010

How To Make Hosted Web Security Services Work

Outsourcing Web security functions sounds good on paper, but how do you make hosted services work in your organization? A new Dark Reading report offers some answers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 18, 2010

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