Hello and welcome to Linux Security Weekly for October 7, 2012. Linux Security Weekly is the audio podcast which covers current and important security vulnerabilities in Linux and open source software for the past week.

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Show Notes:

News

Wireshark 1.8.3 and 1.6.11 Released

http://www.wireshark.org/news/20121002.html

PostgreSQL Updates 2012-09-24 released

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1416/

Red Hat 5.9 beta out

https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5-Beta/html/5.9_Release_Notes/index.html

https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5-Beta/html-single/5.9_Technical_Notes/index.html

Over 50 universities with various websites compromised

http://pastebin.com/AQWhu8Ek

Linux 3.6 released

http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.6

Red Hat

freeRADIUS

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1327.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1326.html

rhev-hypervisor

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1324.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1325.html

kernel – Red Hat 5

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1323.html

java-1.4.2-ibm-sap

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1332.html

Ubuntu

eglibc, glibc vulnerabilities

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1589-1/

qemu

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1590-1/

python2.7

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1592-1/

libxslt

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1595-1/

python2.6

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1596-1/

kernel – EC2 10.04

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1597-1/

Debian

libxslt

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2555

Recent attacks on US banks

Wells Fargo, U.S. Bancorp, PNC Financial Services Group, Citigroup, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase

http://thehackernews.com/2012/10/cyber-attacks-on-six-major-american.html

http://blog.fireeye.com/research/2012/10/more-about-attacks-on-financial-industries-.html

http://www.ic3.gov/media/2012/FraudAlertFinancialInstitutionEmployeeCredentialsTargeted.pdf

http://blogs.cisco.com/security/csro-perspective-on-financial-ddos-attacks/

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9232016/Cyberattacks_on_banking_websites_subside_for_now

http://www.securityweek.com/recent-bank-cyber-attacks-originated-hacked-data-centers-not-large-botnet

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/business/cyberattacks-on-6-american-banks-frustrate-customers.html