Source: SMH
Symantec has issued an advisory about a new OpenSSL exploit which targets Apache Web servers hosted on various Linux platforms such as RedHat, Slackware, Debian, SuSE, and Mandrake.
This also includes a number of peer-to-peer capabilities, which allow it to communicate with other clients, and participate in a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) network. To perform these activities, the exploit code listens on UDP port 2002.
Source: NET BSD
NetBSD 1.6 has been released, with binary releases for 39 architectures. More information is available in the 1.6 release announcement.
Users are strongly encouraged to consider upgrading to 1.6, as we believe this to be the best release of NetBSD yet!
Many of the FTP Mirrors are now carrying the NetBSD 1.6 distribution. Please try to use the NetBSD FTP Mirror Site closest to you.
Source: NEWS FORGE
The stories of users migrating from Microsoft Windows to a Free Software alternative (or attempting to do so) have usually had one large sticking point: The alternatives are much harder to learn than Microsoft Windows. Conventional wisdom says that when GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and others become as easy to use as Microsoft Windows (or when Microsoft's EULAs become too unreasonable), the migration will be inevitable, and it will be a good thing for all. I beg to differ.
Source: The Age
After years of watching Microsoft Corp consolidate its power, a band of software rivals is trying to build a beachhead in desktop computers.
Source: Newsforge
Researchers at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, have fired up a 2,000-node, 4,000 processor Linux cluster and hope the cluster's help in studying the human genome will lead to breakthroughs in the treatment of cancer, Alzheimer's and AIDS.
Source: Singapore Linux Conference 2002
L33tdawg: HITB is also looking for sponsors! Anyone interested in donating some moolah our way to help pay for things around here?
The Singapore Linux Conference 2002 is quickly running out of sponsors to approach. We have been in talks with many of the big names, but slowly most have pulled out or are not willing to give financial support. SLC is a conference we hold every year and is the big reason why we have a Linux User Group of Singapore. We need sponsors to get money for speakers.
