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A very serious security flaw was discovered by Ralf Spenneberg in racoon, the IKE daemon of the KAME-tools. Racoon does not very the RSA signature during phase one of a connection using either main or aggressive mode. Only the certificate of the client is verified, the certificate is not used to verify the client's signature.

Heimdal contains cross-realm vulnerability allowing someone with control over a realm to impersonate anyone in the cross-realm trust path.

The iproute package allows local users to cause a denial of service.

Maynard Kuona takes a look on Gnome 2.6-pre and discovers a whole new world of new features and well-crafted interfaces built-in on every Gnome-bundled application.

PolyServe says its new clustering solution is unlike popular NAS clustering solutions that only support clustering for high availability. The PolyServe NAS Cluster solution provides highly-available file services cluster-wide, and the ability to add performance on demand with modular building blocks for computing and storage.

The proliferation of the Linux open source operating system through a growing number of U.S. defense systems poses a serious and urgent security threat, Dan O'Dowd, CEO of Green Hills Software Inc., said today in a speech to the Net-Centric Operations Industry Forum in McLean, Va.

This tutorial is the third in a series of tutorials looking at how you can develop a grid solution with Perl. This series looks at building a framework for a grid system while also creating a distributed image storage/retrieval system as a sample grid application. This tutorial concentrates on the metadata -- data about data -- which is used in a grid to control its operation.

Use Linux today, all the pundits proclaim. The cost seems right, the scale seems right... there's just one problem: what's the best way of actually migrating to this open-source OS? Recently, more vendors are stepping up with clear guidelines and toolkits that can make the move to Linux a lot easier.

One of the mainstays of Navy firepower, the Aegis Weapons System, has been reconfigured into an open-source architecture to make modifications easier. Lockheed Martin said this week the shift to open source allows the Navy to use commercial computer technology when making software changes and other upgrades to the Aegis, which is a primary fire-control system aboard ships, subs and aircraft.

The accuracy of two recent reports comparing the relative costs and benefits of the Linux and Windows operating systems has been called into question.

Enterprises are increasingly choosing to invest in Linux over Windows because of cost considerations and dissatisfaction with licensing policies. But Microsoft may have some plans in store to slow the advance of open source.

LindowsEspanol para Laptops Tailored to the Needs of 28 Million U.S. Spanish Speakers

Vector Linux has always interested me because of its purpose and origin: a simplified distribution from a Slackware base. Last month Vector's developers announced the first release candidate for Vector Linux 4.0 SOHO edition. Since, to quote Vector's main page, Slackware Linux has always been "about as user-friendly as a coiled rattlesnake," I was curious to see how Vector Linux addressed these issues for home users while still keeping the Slackware reliability and speed. I'm sorry to report that their efforts have not been especially successful.

I'm convinced that what the Linux community needs is its own Steve Jobs. We need someone who can envision something so insanely great that everyone who sees it will want it. They also need to be able to lead the development team that creates it. But is Linux ready for insanely great products? I think so. In fact, I'm sure of it.

Sun's deal with Microsoft last week was not an anti-Linux maneuver, but rather intended to broaden "interoperability and choice for our customers," said John Fowler, Sun Chief Technology Officer for Software, on Wednesday.

The media is declaring that Microsoft for the first time is sharing its code in "open source" fashion, under the Common Public License. It has made available the code to its Windows Installer XML application (WiX) software on Sourceforge. The first thing that popped into my mind was the New Zealand patent it got on XML that came to light not long ago. The second thing that popped into my mind is that OpenOffice saves documents in XML. Then I thought, I wonder if they plan on pulling some kind of a SCO someday, attacking OpenOffice? I could just be paranoid, but sometimes it pays to be. Then I asked myself, why do companies patent things? Is it because they intend to share freely with others?

This issue introduces Mozilla Community, a new section for people to share their stories and thoughts. Here, we have three stories from Europe and Asia. As usual, we also have more tips and tricks to help users browse international sites more efficiently.

A newly formed, Australian-based open source advisory group aims to deliver expert advice and information on free and open source software (FOSS).

Commerical contractor Manhattan Construction has selected Novell's SuSE Linux for their corporate network. Novell software, combined with IBM servers and running Oracle enterprise applications was announced by Novell earlier this week.

According to a Mandrake Linux security advisory [0], a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the header rewriting code of Fetchmail [1]. The code's intention is to hack message headers so replies work properly. However, logic in the reply_hack() function fails to allocate enough memory for long lines and may write past a memory boundary. This could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by sending a specially crafted email and crashing fetchmail. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project assigned the id CAN-2003-0792 [2] to the problem.