LogError writes “Another day, another week, /etc. What a better start of another in the must-have series of articles in which I deal with needful things for an average linux user or admin? This time, I’ll focus on Nessus, a free and powerful (as they say it on its homepage) scanner. But let’s not get too hasty. Start at the beginning.”

From BSDToday: “The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames Research Center, in California’s Silicon Valley uses OpenBSD and other open source software for its wireless firewall gateway implementation. They successfully installed a secure interoperable wireless network addressing the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard wireless systems.”

Joe Barr writes “Post-show impressions.

The show reflected the downturn in the economy, and especially in the tech sector. However, Linux is not dead, and neither is the Linux desktop — despite the steady beat of its funeral dirge in the press.”

LinuxSecurity: “A warning has been re-issued by the National Infrastructure Protection Centre (NIPC) about a vulnerability in the telnet daemon program following
“numerous reports” of intruders exploiting the hole.”

cenobyte writes: “www.linux-box.org is a new linux security site that gives you, in one eye wink, what the latest vulnerabilities are, and the hotest Linux items of today. It’s totally new with a great concept and great projects where users can share their knowledge. It is worth taking a look at www.linux-box.org.”

An anonymous reader writes: “It’s been about 7 months since Maximum Linux Magazine closed up shop. So today out of the blue I get WIRED Magazine in the mail with a letter attached to it that reads…“

From ZDNet: “Following fierce criticism of the security of
its products, Microsoft has launched a brace of new, downloadable
tools designed to reduce IIS vulnerabilities, while helping
administrators to keep on top of essnetial security fixes.”

From CNet: “Sun will release its new top-end Unix server, code-named StarCat, on Sept. 26, and sources say IBM will release its rival “Regatta” machine less than a week later.”

An Anonymous Reader writes “LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum takes his customary “walk on the embedded side” of LinuxWorld, at the 2001 show in San Francisco, and reports on the status of “all things embedded and embeddable” at the show.”

From IDG.net: “Having faced widespread criticism in the past, representatives of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers fielded questions on proposals made in a recent draft report concerning the election of certain ICANN board members.”