Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open source security advisories. In this column, we look at buffer overflows in libmcrypt, HSphere Webshell, HTTP Fetcher Library, LCDproc, and UnixWare and Open UNIX's ps; and problems in the Common Unix Printing System, BitKeeper, FreeBSD's fpathconf(), S-PLUS, dhcpcd, leafnode, and Middleman.

Welcome to the Security Alerts column, an overview of new Unix and open source security-related advisories and news. Problems this week include buffer overflows in splitvt, bing, write, and Lotus Domino's SMTP server; temporary file problems with webmin and Apache's mod_rewrite; format string problems with icecast; ip firewalling problems with FreeBSD; and SQL problems in Postaci.

One of the more frequent requests on the Squid mailing lists is for help configuring Squid to operate well on dial-up or demand-dial networks. Offline mode will function for some of these networks, but is far from ideal. Unfortunately many of the features of Squid's offline mode appear to have largely vanished during the development of the Squid 2.x series. In the 2.3 STABLE 4 version, the offline mode has nearly no effect at all.

Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of new Unix and open source security-related advisories and news. Problems this week include root exploits in the MarkVision printer drivers package, local and remote root exploits in KTH Kerberos, buffer overflows in Red Hat's PAM, a discussion of security problems with web-based applications, and an example of one of these web-based security problems in phpGroupWare.

"Have you played Atari today?" was an ad jingle for the Atari 2600 VCS game console during its reign in the early years of the video game industry, from the late 1970s to early 1980s. That question that could apply even now, thanks to the passion of programmers who've continued to make new Atari games for the past few years. These "homebrew" games come in cartridge form (for use on actual Atari 2600 consoles) and have free public releases as code that runs on Atari 2600 emulators. (Homebrew developers use two of the most popular emulators, z26 and Stella, to test their games.) Emulators have greatly increased the audience for homebrew games outside of those who still own the consoles.