CNET News.com reports that Philips will debut two reference platforms for new Internet appliances at next week’s Consumer Electronics Expo in Las Vegas. The systems will be compatible with several different operating systems, including Linux.

At Help Net Security: “News Desk 1.2 (newsdesk.cgi) is a news submission script which is written in perl and allows someone on a remote computer to connect to the server and post news submissions without logging into the actual server.”

LinuxDevices takes a closer look at G.Mate’s forthcoming Yopy, a new personal digital assistant that uses Linux for its operating system.

From a press release at Linux PR: “Minoru Development SARL,
CONECTA srl, and Sistema announced today that they have signed a
contract with the European Commission’s Fifth Framework Programme
to implement an open source approach to accelerate the uptake and
improvement of software for regional health care networks.”

From 32BitsOnline.com: “GNOME began as a reaction to licensing issues with the commercially developed QT
library that KDE relies on for its graphical widgets, and some of its users prefer it to KDE because it’s more true to
the Open Source ideal rather than for its technical merit.”

ZDNet notes that Netscape 6 for Solaris was formally released today.

From Help Net Security: “Any current NT server running IIS with Frontpage server extensions (which are installed by default) is vulnerable a remote DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability stems from Frontpage improperly handling queries to Frontpage Authoring (author.dll) modules as well as shtml calls.”

LinuxWorld: “Many people don’t consider the actual process that Linux takes to enter a usable state. The Geek explains what the various run levels are for and how they fit into the boot process.”

From HelpNetSecurity: “slocate” is a program which catalogues existing files and allows for a quick lookup later.
There is a vulnerability present in previous versions. By giving it a crafted database, an
attacker could make slocate execute arbitrary code as the “slocate” user. Additionally, a
bug which caused slocate to segfault with large pathnames was fixed.

From CNN.com: “A ‘hacker’ angry at the outside
activities of GlobalCentral.com, a
Casper, Wyo., Internet service provider,
has released customer information to
Computerworld.

On Dec. 12 and 13, Computerworld received e-mails containing detailed
information about customers signing up for Internet access through
GlobalCentral. The e-mails included such personal information as credit card
numbers, bank account numbers, bank routing numbers, as well as the clients’
names, addresses, telephone numbers and the terms of their contracts with
GlobalCentral.”