Computer Viruses are 25 Years old
I ran across this story this week.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanId=sa003&articleId=C0C3AC3C-E7F2-99DF-39AA1A7175A11775
The computing world is still suffering from computer viruses. They're a serious problem that waste a great deal of time and money. Given past trends, it's very likely that computer viruses will see their 50th birthday.
Serious Security Issues in Samsung Linux Drivers
This story is absolutely amazing
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/18/0319203
It seems that by installing certain Samsung Linux drivers modify numerous applications on the local system, setting a number of them setuid-root.
It's easy to claim open source produces higher quality software, this is a fine example of this. If the source is being scrutinized by the community at large, someone is likely to send a patch which can fix a plain stupid bug such as this. It's also quite likely that a developer will be more willing to "do it right" if the source is going to be available for the whole world to see.
Firefox 2.0.0.5 Released
A new version of the Mozilla products (Firefox, Seamonkey, Thunderbird) were released this week.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#firefox2.0.0.5
It's rather important you ensure you've installed this update as the browser is certainly the most abused application these days. If you run Fedora, this update has been available via yum for several days.
