excerpt from Linux Today Security Letter

[J. Francois]

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LINUX JOURNAL: AN INTRODUCTION TO USING LINUX AS A MULTIPURPOSE
FIREWALL

"By installing Linux on that old 486 you have sitting in the
corner collecting dust, you can create a firewall so all the
computers on your local LAN can see the Internet, and at the
same time, transfer data back and forth between each other..."

COMPLETE STORY:
http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue71/3546.html

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SECURITY PORTAL: DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS LIKELY
TO GET WORSE

"Trinoo, one of the simpler programs in the current bumper crop
is now available for Windows... if we've learned anything over
the last year or two, it is that infecting a Windows desktop
with malicious code is trivially easy..."

COMPLETE STORY:
http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/ddos20000224.html

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COMPUTERWORLD: EXPERTS: HACKERS MAY BE INFECTING THOUSANDS OF
WINDOWS PCS

"Computer hackers may quietly be infecting thousands of Windows
PCs in preparation for another wave of DoS (denial-of-service)
attacks..."

COMPLETE STORY:
http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000225F16A


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Jean Francois Sends...
President & CEO MagusNet, Inc.
MagusNet.com
CTO EBIZ Enterprises, Inc.
TheLinuxStore.com,TheLinuxLab.com,LinuxWired.net