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Contributing Writer: [[JoshBressers]]
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=== OSS-Security ===
=== Phrack 66 ===
The existence of the OSS-Security Community was [http://www.bress.net/blog/archives/115-Announcing-oss-security.html announced] last week. If you're interested in the unique challenges that Open Source software faces with respect to security, feel free to join the discussions within the group.  As all communities go, the idea here is to grow a self sustaining community, not something that's just a few people doing all the work.
Phrack 66<ref>http://www.phrack.com/issues.html?issue=66</ref> came out this week. If you're not aware, Phrack is the longest running hacker zine, it's impressive that after more than 20 years, it's still going.


=== Flash Player ===
=== Firefox 3.0.11 ===
There were rumblings of a 0day Flash Player flaw in the wild. It turned out to be unpatched copies of Flash Player as noted on the
Yet another security update for Firefox was released, be sure to update, it's important.
[http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2008/05/potential_flash_player_issue.html Adobe Product Security Blog]. This is just another example of why it's very important to keep your system updated properly.
<ref>http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html#firefox3.0.11</ref>


=== Samba ===
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A quite serious Samba flaw was [http://us1.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2008-1105.html released] last week.
 
Initially this was thought to be quite minor, until it was noticed that it's possible for a Samba server to connect back to a client when doing certain printing actions.  This means that this particular Samba client issue also affected the server.  Quite tricky.

Latest revision as of 00:23, 14 June 2009

Security Week

In this section, we highlight the security stories from the week in Fedora.

Contributing Writer: JoshBressers

Phrack 66

Phrack 66[1] came out this week. If you're not aware, Phrack is the longest running hacker zine, it's impressive that after more than 20 years, it's still going.

Firefox 3.0.11

Yet another security update for Firefox was released, be sure to update, it's important. [2]

  1. ↑ http://www.phrack.com/issues.html?issue=66
  2. ↑ http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html#firefox3.0.11
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