LinuxSecurity.com: Thilo Pfennig and Morten Welinder discovered that the XLS spreadsheet handling code in Gnumeric did not correctly calculate needed memory sizes. If a user or automated system were tricked into loading a specially crafted XLS document, a remote attacker

LinuxSecurity.com: New xine-lib packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, and -current to fix security issues. An overflow was found in the Speex decoder that could lead to a crash or possible execution of arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: Flaws were discovered in Firefox which could lead to crashes during JavaScript garbage collection. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious web page, an attacker may be able to crash the browser or possibly execute arbitrary code

LinuxSecurity.com: Use of insufficient randomness in PowerDNS Recursor might lead to DNS cache poisoning.

Registration is open for the tenth annual edition of OSCON (Open Source Convention), as well as for a co-located Ubuntu Live conference. Scheduled for Jul. 21-25 in Portland, Ore., O'Reilly's OSCON 2008 is expected to draw some 2,500 open source

Tobias Gerschner has announced the availability of the first beta release of Yoper Linux 3.1, an i686 optimised desktop Linux distribution: "The Yoper team is proud to announce that Yoper Linux 3.1 is close to completion. This release ships with

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0235

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0145

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CIO: "'Where are all the open source billionaires?' Wired asks in its March issue. Wrong question. The right question is 'Who will become billionaires because of open source...?"'

Socialized Software: "I have been trying to digest two unrelated stories from last week. The first was the report by the Standish Group on the $60 Billion dollars open source is purported to be costing the proprietary software industry..."

Computerworld UK: "The open source Postgres database stands somewhat in the shadow of MySQL, even though the software's roots go back much further..."

Centrify: "...I found it interesting that it seems no one in the industry has actually rolled up their sleeves and analyzed and published how many patents Microsoft actually holds within their Windows server protocols and what functional areas these patents

LWN: "Since the Fedora Board originally formed in 2006, the Fedora Project has changed quite a bit. We now have about two-thirds of our packages maintained by volunteer community members..."

ComVan: "Slackware Linux is a complete 32-bit multitasking 'UNIX-like' system. It's currently based around the 2.4 Linux kernel series and the GNU C Library version 2.3.2 (libc6)..."

The Hindu: "Net users in the city and in Kerala are discovering and exploring the potential of free software.."

Black Enterprise/LinuxInsider: "We've been hearing about an open source revolution for years now. Although 'revolution' might be an overstatement, the Linux operating system is emerging as a formidable player..."

I am not convinced that Linux is completely safe to use for on line banking without a firewall and anti virus software installed. For my peace of mind could someone recommend suitable software. I...