Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open source security advisories. In this column, we look at problems in Apache, bzip2, Cisco devices, fetchmail, Netpbm, Ethereal, Proftpd, pstotext, apt-cacher, Compress::Zlib, Gopher, nbSMTP, and PowerDNS.

Old adventures never end--they're just replayed. In the case of Ultima VII, open source gives the classic RPG added replay mileage with an engine overhaul. Exult replaces Ultima VII's engine so that the game can be played on other operating systems and platforms. It also expands the graphics capabilities of the game and adds features not present under the original engine. (A legal copy of Ultima VII is required in order to use Exult.)

Transparent proxying frees you from the hassle of setting up individual browsers to work with proxies. If you have a hundred, or a thousand, users on your network, it's a pain to set up each browser and to use proxies -- or to try to convince users to go into their preferences and type in these symbols they don't understand.

Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open-source security advisories. In this column, we look at buffer overflows in the GazTek HTTP Daemon, Solaris Printer Daemon, and w3m; a problem in default SAMBA installations that can be used to gain root access; and problems in Cisco 6400 NRP2, udirectory, Tarantella, Oracle 8i SQLNet, Formmail.pl, OS X directory permissions, and kdesu.

A bad side effect of email has been the rapid spread of viruses and spam, both of which are illegal in one form or another these days. However, this doesn't stop virus writers or spam moguls from doing what they do. This means that it's up to our mail server to protect our users from such things.

Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open source security advisories.

In this column, we look at buffer overflows in SSH, PHP, typespeed, Cyrus IMAP Server, Cyrus SASL library, and pdftops; and problems with PFinger, KDE, and zkfingerd.