Your Linux Today Security Letter for January 15, 2010

Friday January 15, 2010

Linux Today Security BERLIOS HOSTING SITE HACKED "The BerliOS open source software portal was compromised and recently had its home page defaced, but no disclosure has been made on the site." GSM ENCRYPTION CRACK MADE PUBLIC "The schemes commonly used to encrypt GSM telephone calls, SMS messages, and data transmissions have been theoretically broken for years at both the protocol and cipher levels, but results presented in Berlin at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress (26C3) on December 27 demonstrate that a practical attack can be easily implemented." MICROSOFT ADMITS ZERO-DAY AIDED GOOGLE ATTACKERS "Microsoft officials acknowledged that widely publicized attacks on Google and perhaps another 20 or more corporations were helped by a previously unknown zero-day (define) vulnerability in most versions of its popular browser." NEW GSM ENCRYPTION CRACKED "An encryption algorithm designed to protect calls on GSM phones has been broken by three cryptographers using only a dual-core, Intel -based Dell Latitude PC running Linux." DRIVE, PATIENT DATA GO MISSING IN CALIFORNIA THEFT "More than 15,000 Kaiser Permanente patients in Northern California this week are being notified that their personal information, including birth dates, addresses, phone numbers and medical-record numbers, was exposed last month after an unencrypted external storage drive was stolen from an employee's car." Get Ready for Windows 7! Pros and Cons? Learn What Our Experts Think Download Free eBook Now. Click Here. Interested in placing your TEXT AD HERE? Click Here

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