Based on its recent analysis of the physical security systems integrator markets, Frost & Sullivan recognizes the Security division of Diebold, Incorporated (NYSE: DBD) with the 2008 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Physical Security Systems Integrator of the Year.

LinuxSecurity.com: This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the GIF decoding routines used by CUPS image converting filters "imagetops" and "imagetoraster". An attacker could

LinuxSecurity.com: If you're concerned about protecting world-writeable shared directories such as /tmp or /var/tmp from abuse, a Linux© Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) can help you. The pam_namespace module creates a separate namespace for users on your system when they login.

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated lspp-eal4-config-ibm and capp-lspp-eal4-config-hp packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The lspp-eal4-config-ibm and

LinuxSecurity.com: This month the editors at LinuxSecurity.com have chosen sudo as the Open Source Tool of the Month!

Unknown miscreants had a good time two weekends ago when they posted hundreds of flashing animated images onto discussion boards hosted by the Landover, Md.-based Epilepsy Foundation.

While software makers have taken steps to close the security holes, Web site owners continue to host older files created by older authoring programs that are vulnerable to cross-site scripting ( XSS ) attacks, Rich Cannings, information security engineer of

Last week's massive IFRAME injection attack is slowly turning into a what looks like a large scale web application vulnerabilities audit of high profile sites. Following the timely news coverage, Symantec's rating for the attack as medium risk, StopBadware commenting

Fedora has issued an update for Perlbal. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

A vulnerability has been reported in Linux Audit, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the "audit_log_user_command()" function in lib/audit_logging.c. This can be exploited

A security issue has been discovered in Nik Sharpener Pro, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges. The problem is caused due to insecure default permissions being set for installed plugins. This can potentially

Luigi Auriemma has discovered some vulnerabilities in SLMail Pro, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise a vulnerable system. 1) An error within WebContainer.exe can be exploited to corrupt memory

A security issue has been reported in Eterm, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

Bernhard R. Link has reported a security issue in rxvt, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges. The security issue is caused due to the program using ":0" as it's X11 display if the DISPLAY

A vulnerability has been reported in PHPkrm, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks. Input passed to unspecified parameters is not properly sanitised before being stored. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in XnView, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when processing the "FontName" parameter of slideshow files (*.sld). This can

Some security issues with unknown impact have been reported in Mondo Rescue. The security issues are caused due to unspecified errors related to the usage of /tmp or MINDI_CACHE instead of bkpinfo->tmpdir. The security issues are reported in versions prior

Russ McRee has discovered a vulnerability in JV2 Folder Gallery, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Input passed to the "image" parameter in index.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user.