eWEEK.com Messaging and Collaboration is reporting Microsoft Confirms New Word Zero-Day Attack. “Malicious attackers are exploiting a new, undocumented flaw in Word 2000 to load back-door Trojans on Windows machines.” … “Security alerts aggregator Secunia rates the flaw as “extremely critical” and urged Word users to avoid opening Word documents from untrusted sources.”
Archive | September, 2006
DLSLUG, September 7th: Joomla! and AJAX
Bill McGonigle announces two great presentations for the September meeting of the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux Users Group: Joomla! and AJAX. Should be a great show.
OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 Premium released
LXer reports OpenOffice Suite Gets Font Freebies. “OpenOffice.org Premium can be downloaded from the SourceForge Web site, but is available only for Windows. A native Mac OS X version of the suite will be previewed in France in September.”
[You can also grab the accessories from the SourceForge site, if you already have OOo. – dcparris]
What great timing! I've been looking for a package that includes OpenOffice with some additional fonts, templates and clip art to hand out at Software Freedom Day. On the OO.o site, they have an Extras disk, but it's a couple of micro-versions behind and in need of a lot of attention: files are still in StarOffice format, installers are rough, HOWTOs are missing. There is a lot of great documentation and stuff on the disk (theres an Excel VBA StarBasic concordance that's 63 pages long and looks worthy of further examination), however, and I encourage every OO.o power user to grab the Extras disk (and find out how you might be able to contribute back a little to the disk). But the OOOP disk looks very promising. Will report what I discover
And, remember, be careful out there!
I pointed out the article on NX Server on Ed Leafe's ProFox list, and member Tracy Pearson pointed to a great article on Informit.com on Mitigating the Security Risks of SSH. Remember, just because you sprinkle the magic pixie dust of ssh on a solution, it is not necessarily secure. Security is still a process, not a feature.
Remote secure desktop serving for Linux servers and Linux/Mac/Windows clients.
OSNews reports NX Server, Client Released Under GPL. “2X today announced the release of 2X TerminalServer for Linux, an open source terminal server for Linux, which enables users to run a Linux desktop and Linux / Windows applications over any type of connection. “If Linux is going to happen on the desktop, it will require a terminal server approach such as that of 2X Terminal Server for Linux. Only with the more advanced thin client approach, will Linux be able to outdo Windows fat clients in a company's network. 2X is proud to contribute to this by opening the source code of its terminal server software for Linux.”
'Way cool. NX uses the underlying ssh technology to provide an encrypted tunnel to a remote machine. Through that tunnel, you can support VNC, RDP or compressed X Windows traffic for remote desktop access. I've cobbled together ssh-VNC-http solutions before, but they were typically a bit awkward. I'm looking forward to trying this one out.