<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Secunia has updated its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) with the ability to silently download and apply patches from multiple vendors soon after their release. PSI 2.0 is now available in an open beta test,

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: When you open up a browser session and visit Web sites and click on hyperlinks, do you feel a little apprehensive about the possibility of drive-by malware getting installed on your PC? I sure do, even though I keep my antivirus/antimalware software and other security measures active and up to date. I might be a little paranoid, but for good reason.

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Twitter officially disabled Basic authentication this week, the final step in the company's transition to mandatory OAuth authentication. Sadly, Twitter's extremely poor implementation of the OAuth standard offers a textbook example of how to do it wrong.

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Late in July 2010, we assessed over 21 solutions that were submitted to the Forensic Challenge on VOIP. The solutions were exceptionally high quality. It is fair to say that we all learnt a lot about this emerging threat in the process of preparing this challenge.

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: It happens every day -- a sensitive document lies in the copier room, forgotten by the person who left it on the scanner. No big deal, right? Nobody else was able to read it.

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Malicious hackers are using the Google Code repository to host Trojans horses, backdoors and password stealing keyloggers, according to researchers at Zscaler.

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Insecure permission handling in maildrop might allow local attackers toelevate their privileges.

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the BGP implementation of Quagga, a routing daemon. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the [More...]

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: A vulnerability has been found and corrected in lvm2: The cluster logical volume manager daemon (clvmd) in lvm2-cluster in LVM2 before 2.02.72, as used in Red Hat Global File System (GFS) and other products, does not verify client credentials upon a socket [More...]

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Multiple vulnerabilities have been fixed in MySQL.

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: If you haven't used Linux before, are new to Ubuntu, or would like a quick update on the latest in open source advancements for the desktop, then The Official Ubuntu Book is a great place to start. Authored by a group of some of the most experienced open source administrators and developers, this 400-page user guide details everything you need to know about how to make the most of your Ubuntu, Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE), and Xubuntu (Ubuntu with Xfce) computer.

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: If you have anything more than a small home network, you need to be monitoring the status of your systems to ensure they are providing the services they were designed to provide. Rihards Olups has created a comprehensive reference and usability guide for the latest version of Zabbix that anyone being tasked with implementing should have by their side.