SiliconValley.com: “Spending on Internet security continues to grow, yet the worldwide supernetwork remains more vulnerable than ever to viruses, break-ins and terrorism. Simply put, hackers are getting smarter, and computer networks are getting more complex and difficult to keep safe.”

Debian: “The version of enscript (a tool to convert ASCII text to different formats) has been found to create temporary files insecurely.” Updates can be found here.

LinuxSecurity.com: This weeks issue of Linux Secutiry Week is out. Articles include ‘The Simplest Security: A Guide To Better Password Practices,’ ‘Filtering Spam with Procmail,’ ‘Using ssh Port Forwarding to Print at Remote Locations,’ and more. Check it out here.

jensend writes “GNU libc 2.2.5 has been released. Improvments include GCC 3 support, a newly optimized dynamic linker, and ports to PPC Hurd as well as x86-64 Linux. The glibc team concluded that a bug on Alpha systems, which seemed to be the showstopper, is actually a binutils bug, and binutils 2.12 is shaping up for a release as well.”

Matjaz Horvat writes, “Gartner Groups report on January 21, 2002, says: 15 percent of Asian companies run Linux.”
Information at IDG.net.

Posted at LWN.net: “The version of enscript (a tool to convert ASCII text to different
formats) has been found to create temporary files insecurely.

This has been fixed in version 1.6.2-4.1.”

Posted at LWN.net: “he version of enscript (a tool to convert ASCII text to different
formats) has been found to create temporary files insecurely.

This has been fixed in version 1.6.2-4.1.”

Slashdot has a link to a kernel discussion list with a post by senior kernel hacker Alan Cox saying he’d leave Red Hat if AOL Time Warner acquired the company.

Posted at LWN.net: The Police Information Technology Organisation (PITO) has awarded
netproject a contract to examine the issues of deploying Linux on up to
60,000 desktop computers in police forces throughout the UK.

LinuxSecurity Contributor writes, “Scott Wimer, CTO Cylant Software, discusses methods for improving the security of a computer
system in spite of their vulnerabilities in order to break out of the current security cycle.”
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