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Security Week

In this section, we highlight the security stories from the week in Fedora.

Contributing Writer: JoshBressers

Phrack 66

Phrack 66^[1] came out this week. If you're not aware, Phrack is the longest running hacker zine, it's impressive that after more than 20 years, it's still going.

Firefox 3.0.11

Yet another security update for Firefox was released, be sure to update, it's important. ^[2]

[1] ttp://www.phrack.com/issues.html?issue=66

[2] ttp://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html#firefox3.0.11

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 Contributing Writer: [[JoshBressers]]
-=== Security Circus ===
+=== Phrack 66 ===
-By far the most entertaining story from last week was Linux giving a few choice quotes[1].
+Phrack 66<ref>http://www.phrack.com/issues.html?issue=66</ref> came out this week. If you're not aware, Phrack is the longest running hacker zine, it's impressive that after more than 20 years, it's still going.
-He does get some things right, but there's still the very real fact that security flaws let people do things they shouldn't be able to do.  This adds a certain amount of danger and does require more attention than some other flaws.  A nice comparison is automotive recalls.  If there are two problems, one is a broken cup holder, the second makes the car explode, which do you think they'll do a recall for?
+=== Firefox 3.0.11 ===
+Yet another security update for Firefox was released, be sure to update, it's important.
+<ref>http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html#firefox3.0.11</ref>
-[1] http://news.cnet.com/Torvalds-attacks-IT-industry-security-circus/2100-1007_3-6243900.html
+<references/>
-=== principle of least privilege ===
-Steve Grubb has a nice interview up on SearchEnterpriseLinux.com[1].
-It offers some hints into some of the intresting things that have happened and can be expected in the SELinux space.
-[1] http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1321374,00.html">SearchEnterpriseLinux.com