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Linus Torvalds feels the security scene is over glorified

7 Aug, 2008 | Posted by Danesh | in Linux

Linus Torvalds

Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can’t
stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in
that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the
point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.

That’s what Linus Torvalds had to say about security people. Read the full article.

Wikiquote has a good collection of bold quote from Linus if’d you’d like to check them out.

OpenSSH 5.1 released

25 Jul, 2008 | Posted by Danesh | in Linux, Open Source, Software

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OpenSSH 5.1 is out.

OpenSSH fully supports SSH protocol versions 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0. It also includes client and server support for sftp.

A few bug fixes, security fixes and new features come with the new 5.1 release. It’s already released to the mirrors so make sure to get patched. FTP mirrors || HTTP mirrors

Read the changelog

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Firefox 3.0.1 released

17 Jul, 2008 | Posted by Danesh | in Mozilla, Open Source, Software

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Firefox 3.0.1 is out. This is the first update for Firefox 3 which was released not too long ago. It covers security, stability and bug fixes.

Fixed several security issues.
Fixed several stability issues.
Fixed an issue where the phishing and malware database did not update on first launch.
Under certain circumstances, Firefox 3.0 did not properly save the SSL certificate exceptions list.
Updated the internal Public Suffix list.
In certain cases, installing Firefox 2 in the same directory in which Firefox 3 has been installed resulted in Firefox 2 being unstable. This issue was fixed as part of Firefox 2.0.0.15.
Fixed an issue where, when printing a selected region of content from the middle of a page, some of the output was missing (bug 433373).
Fixed a Linux issues where, for users on a PPP connection (dialup or DSL) Firefox always started in “Offline” mode (bug 424626).

Download Firefox 3.0.1 now. Remember, Firefox 2 will only be available till December 2008.

Firefox 2.0.0.13 released

26 Mar, 2008 | Posted by Danesh | in Mozilla, Software

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Firefox 2.0.0.13 has just been released. It fixes a few security issues.

XUL popup spoofing variant (cross-tab popups)
Java socket connection to any local port via LiveConnect 2008-17
Privacy issue with SSL Client Authentication
HTTP Referrer spoofing with malformed URLs
Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.13)
JavaScript privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution

If the auto update does not work for you, download the latest Firefox.

Source: Mozilla | Mozilla Security Advisories