Fedora 8 released
Last week saw the release of Fedora 8. This is important for countless reasons, one of them being a new firewall configuration tool. This is important since it should hopefully keep more people using the firewall. In previous Fedora releases it was often easiest to just turn off the firewall when something didn't work. This is obviously an unwise move as it can leave your machine open to various other issues. One of the most difficult things for security to achieve is keeping users safe while staying out of the way.
pcre
Some rather foul pcre flaws were made public last week. In reality these flaws aren't a big deal for most users, but it was found that pcre is used by Konqueror. It seems that the Konqueror web browser uses the pcre library for its JavaScript regular expression support. Web browsers are easily one of the most dangerous applications on a computer, as they process an incredible amount of arbitrary third party content.
