Debian flaw exposes communications breakdown 

Debian flaw exposes communications breakdown

In Applications - By Robert Jaques, 29 May 2008 10:26 AM
The recent discovery of a potentially serious Secure Socket Layer (SSL) flaw affecting a popular Linux distribution should act as a wake up call to the open source community, ...
Debian, Ununtu flawed for two years 

Debian, Ununtu flawed for two years

By Stewart Meagher, 21 May 2008 11:36 AM
A research posting to the Debian security list last week has led to the confirmation of a serious hole in two flavours of the Open Sauce Linux operating system.
Debian random key generator flaw could persist 

Debian random key generator flaw could persist

In Applications - By Dan Kaplan, 21 May 2008 8:55 AM
Even though a vulnerability in the OpenSSL library used to generate key pairs on Debian-based Linux distributions has been fixed, IT administrators will be hard-pressed to ...
Weekly Roundup: Cryptography v.s. hackers: the battle continues 

Weekly Roundup: Cryptography v.s. hackers: the battle continues

In Web/client - By Liz Tay, 18 May 2008 9:45 PM
Heisenberg fan boys are shaking their heads this week to the tune of a pair of Swedish mathematicians who claim to have broken quantum cryptography.
OpenSSL bug found in Debian Linux 

OpenSSL bug found in Debian Linux

By Egan Orion, 15 May 2008 9:58 AM
Debian Linux got a bit of a black eye this week with the announcement that a nasty cryptographic vulnerability exists in its version of the OpenSSL package.
Red Hat patch numerous OpenOffice flaws 

Red Hat patch numerous OpenOffice flaws

In Applications - By Ericka Chickowski, 23 March 2007 12:52 AM
Debian released a patch to fix multiple vulnerabilities in OpenOffice that open up the users' systems to compromise, Secunia reported on Wednesday.
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