Industry cheers Novell's Linux buy, Nov 06, 2003

The strongest endorsement, though, came from IBM, the most powerful Linux advocate in the industry, which said it would invest $50 million in Novell upon completion of the SuSE acquisition, expected by January 2004. IBM said the move ensures a future for Linux on its four server lines and as a foundation for its extensive server software collection.

The Chinese government plans to throw its financial weight behind Linux-based computer systems that could rival Microsoft's Windows, in one of the world's fastest-growing technology markets, a government official said Wednesday.

What aspects of Linux operating systems are most often targeted by malicious hackers? Here's a recent list of the ten most commonly exploited vulnerable services in UNIX and Linux, as compiled by federal security agencies, security vendors, and other experts.

"The BitKeeper to CVS gateway was apparently hacked in an attempt to add a root exploit back door to the Linux kernel, according to the linux-kernel archive. The change was in the file kernel/exit.c and changed the user ID of a process to root under the guise of checking the validity of some flags. The core Linux BitKeeper kernel repository was not at risk, and in fact it was the BitKeeper CVS export scripts that detected the unauthorized modifications to CVS. The changes were falsely attributed in CVS to long-time Linux developer davem (David Miller). Users of the BKCVS repository should resync their trees to remove the offending code if they had replicated it since yesterday."

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