Information Security News: Linux Security Week May 7-14

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Forwarded by: Dave Wreski <dave () guardiandigital com>

The LinuxSecurity.com contributors have released this week's edition
of Linux Security Week.  The purpose of this document is to provide
our readers with a quick summary of each week's most relevant Linux
security headlines and system advisories.

Of note this week is a discussion of the ILOVEYOU worm from a Unix
user's perspective and a feature story written by David Corcoran,
founder of the Linux SmartCard Project. 'Introduction To
Authentication' David describes Unix passwords, their insecurities,
RSA, and using RSA PAM authentication. This paper also includes how
intruders gain access to password protected systems, the basics of
public key cryptography, digital signatures, and smartcards.

The online version can be found at:

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/forums_article-648.html

Regards,
Dave Wreski

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Dave Wreski
Lead Systems Engineer                       Guardian Digital, Inc.
(201) 934-9230                Pioneering.  Open Source.  Security.
dave () guardiandigital com            http://www.guardiandigital.com

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