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Apple Snow Leopard Flaw Devours User Data

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A serious flaw in Apple's Snow Leopard OS appears capable of wiping user data after the user opens and closes the "guest" account on the afflicted Macintosh. According to reports, when the user first opens the guest account, closes it, and later logs back into their own account, their Home folder data has been erased.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 13, 2009

ClamAV 0.94.x to go end-of-life - Update .

The ClamAV developers have announced that the 15th of April 2010 will be the end-of-life (EOL) date for all versions up to 0.94.x of their free open source anti-virus program. The reason for the change is that releases older than 0.95 are affected by a bug in freshclam, the ClamAV utility used to download new virus definitions. The bug prevents incremental updates from working with signatures that are longer than 980 bytes. The developers note that they haven't yet released any signatures that exceed the limit.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 08, 2009

Corporates wary of General Public Licence terms

Is this the same old concerns from a few years ago rising again? Companies are running scared of General Public Licence (GPL) software for fear of being sued, according to a leading open source enthusiast at Adobe. "A number of very large companies have rules to exclude GPL code," said Dave McAllister, director of standards and open source at Adobe.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 07, 2009

Apache HTTP Server 2.2.14 released

The Apache HTTP Server Project developers have announced the availability of version 2.2.14 of their open-source HTTP server. According to the projects developers, the release is considered to be the "best available version of Apache HTTP Server". In addition to fixing bugs, Apache HTTP Server 2.2.14 addresses a number of security issues.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 06, 2009

Mozilla Tests More Secure Firefox

Mozilla on Wednesday posted preview builds of its Firefox browser with security enhancements designed to mitigate the risk of certain Web attacks. In a blog post, Brandon Sterne, security program manager for Mozilla, asks security researchers and server administrators to help test the changes by downloading a build appropriate for their operating system.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 05, 2009

'High Risk' Flaw Fixed in Google Chrome

Google has pushed out a new version of its Chrome browser to fix a high-severity security hole that could lead to malicious code execution attacks.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 02, 2009

OpenSSH 5.3 is now available

The OpenBSD project has released version 5.3 of OpenSSH, the free implementation of the Secure Shell protocol (SSH). The main changes in OpenSSH are support for path names with more than 256 characters and that support for Windows 95/98/ME has been dropped.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 02, 2009

Stallman backpedals on Mac OS backdoor claims

Free software activist Richard Stallman has withdrawn an accusation that Apple's Mac OS X contained a backdoor after admitting there was no evidence to substantiate his earlier claims.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 29, 2009

Seagate ships self-encrypting drives for enterprises

Seagate Technology LLC today announced it is shipping its Seagate self-encrypting drive (SED) across its portfolio of enterprise-class hard drives. The hard drives included with the self-encrypting option are the Savvio 15K.2, Savvio 10K.3, Constellation and Cheetah 15K.7 drives.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 22, 2009

Apple's iPhone problems continue

It turns out that Apple's iPhone 3.1 OS fix of a serious security issue, falsely reporting to Exchange servers that pre-3G S iPhones and iPod Touches had on-device encryption, wasn't the first such policy falsehood that Apple has quietly fixed in an OS upgrade. It fixed a similar lie in its June iPhone OS 3.0 update. Before that update, the iPhone falsely reported its adherence to VPN policies, specifically those that confirm the device is not saving the VPN password (so users are forced to enter it manually). Until the iPhone 3.0 OS update, users could save VPN passwords on their Apple devices, yet the iPhone OS would report to the VPN server that the passwords were not being saved.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 16, 2009

Microsoft Sale Of Linux Patents Roils Open Sourcers

Microsoft put 22 patents up for sale in July, listing them all as in the "open source" category, with some of them, "Linux-focused." The ultimate buyer was the Open Invention Network, a consortium of Linux backers that wanted to take them off the market.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 14, 2009

Check Point delivers encryption to SMEs

Network security firm Check Point today launched a new version of its consumer security suite designed specifically to meet the increasingly sophisticated security needs of small and home business users.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 01, 2009

Security tools snarl Snow Leopard update

Apple unveiled the latest update to its Mac OS X operating system on Friday, an early release that caught many software makers, including some significant security vendors, behind in their development schedule.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 01, 2009

Apple Snow Leopard Security Criticized

The release on Friday of Apple's Mac OS X 10.6, known as "Snow Leopard," has elicited criticism from security companies, which may have business to lose if Apple's latest operating system reduces interest in third-party security software.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 31, 2009

Sun plans on-chip security boost for Ultrasparc

Sun Microsystems' product plans are up in the air pending its acquisition by Oracle, but the company's chip engineers continue to present new designs in the hope they'll see the light of day.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 26, 2009

Why Windows security is awfulA friend of mine suggested that I should include as boilerplate in my s

A friend of mine suggested that I should include as boilerplate in my security stories, a line like: "Of course, if you were running desktop Linux or using a Mac, you wouldn't have this problem." She's got a point. Windows is now, always has been, and always will be insecure. Here's why.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 26, 2009

Google patches severe Chrome vulnerabilities

Google has fixed two high-severity vulnerabilities in the stable version of its Chrome browser that could have let an attacker remotely take over a person's computer. With one attack on Google's V8 JavaScript engine, malicious JavaScript on a Web site could let an attacker gain access to sensitive data or run arbitrary code on the computer within a Chrome protected area called the sandbox, Google said in a blog post Tuesday.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 25, 2009

Red Hat, Novell and CentOS update for kernel vulnerability - Update

Red Hat has finally managed to release a patch for the previously reported critical Linux kernel vulnerability. Red Hat's initial response was to provide a workaround for the problem that involved blacklisting certain network protocols, preventing the exploit from functioning. Novell has also released updates for openSUSE 10.3 to 11.1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 25, 2009

Torvalds bashes vendor-sec private Linux security list

Torvalds has never really been a fan of the vendor-sec list. Vendor-sec is supposed to be a vendor only list that is not publicly available. It's supposed to ensure that vendors will have the time they need to make fixes.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 21, 2009

Top Security Firm RSA Tries to Silence Blog

RSA security, one of the top security firms in the country, has sent takedown notices to a blogger and his hosting company in an effort to silence his discussion of a vulnerability found on a bank web site that RSA helps monitor, according to the blogger.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 19, 2009

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