Your Linux Today Security Letter for January 26, 2010

Tuesday January 26, 2010

Linux Today Security U.S. ENABLES CHINESE HACKING OF GOOGLE "In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts. This feature is what the Chinese hackers exploited to gain access." TOR PROJECT SERVERS HACKED "This is because, in early January, two of the project's seven directory authorities (moria1 and gabelmoo) as well as the metrics.torproject.org statistics server were found to have been hacked." THE IE FIX IS IN "First, the good news, Microsoft's fixed the IE bug used to attack Google. The bad news: the bug had been known for months." NMAP 5.20 RELEASED "Happy new year, everyone. I'm happy to announce Nmap 5.20--our first stable Nmap release since 5.00 last July! It offers more than 150 significant improvements..." SETTING UP AN SSL CERTIFICATE IN APACHE "SSL certificates are used by web servers on a different port - port 443, as opposed to port 80 used for HTTP. Port 443 is for HHTPS traffic. Let's look at how to set this up for your server. You need an SSL certificate, access to an installation of the Apache web server compiled with SSL support, and the operating system on which it is running, and the port 443 to be open" 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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