OEM Bloatware Security Vulnerabilities Found

Last year’s Superfish and eDellRoot bloatware mishaps exposed the security nightmare that pre-installed software updaters can create on new laptops. And while these two high-profile incidents made the issue public, they’re hardly isolated cases. Many popular consumer and business laptops from...

Scientific Linux Security Update : yum-autoupdate update on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120925)

The Scientific Linux team was made aware of a problem with the use of temp files in the yum-autoupdate script by Elias Persson. The problem should be corrected in these packages. These packages also include some minor feature updates for each release. For SL5, the script now includes the 'PRERUN'...