* Patches from Mozilla, Mandriva, OpenPKG, others * Top 5 viruses of the past week, according to CA * Antiphishing fighters take on malware, and other interesting reading
Today’s bug patches and security alerts:
Mozilla pledges to fix second minor Firefox 2.0 bug
A second minor bug found in the Firefox 2.0 Web browser will be fixed, but users shouldn’t encounter much of a problem in the mean time, a Mozilla official said Thursday. IDG News Service, 11/02/06.
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New patches from Mandriva:
php (buffer overflow, code execution)
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New fixes from OpenPKG:
bind (signature verification failure)
php (buffer overflow, code execution)
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Four new patches from Ubuntu:
php (buffer overflow, code execution)
NVIDIA (buffer overflow, code execution)
RPM (denial of service, code execution)
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Two fixes from Debian:
thttpd (insecure temporary files, denial of service)
libpam-ldap (flawed account authentication)
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Top 5 viruses of the past week, according to CA:
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From the interesting reading department:
Antiphishing fighters take on malware
The volunteers behind the Phishing Incident Reporting and Termination Squad (PIRT) have started a new project to crack down on malware. IDG News Service, 11/03/06.
Users share disaster recovery nightmares, fixes
Storage Networking World attendees — some veterans of which remember hurricane winds hitting the hotel where past instances of the Orlando conference were being held — this week traded descriptions of steps they’ve taken to prepare for disasters. Computerworld, 11/03/06.
Security threat changing, says Symantec CEO
The threat posed to computer users and companies by hackers is shifting from attacks on the computers to attacks on electronic transactions, according to the head of one of the world’s largest security software vendors. IDG News Service, 11/03/06.
