The Germany based Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has opened its traditional annual conference in Berlin, Germany, again this year. After a year of breakdowns in data security, the hacker organization is calling for a number of new protective measures.

The Debian Project has released a sixth update for the current stable version of Gnu/Linux 4.0, codenamed Etch.

Bit9, self-professed leader in enterprise application whitelisting, recently included Mozilla's Firefox browser among "the Dirty Dozen" applications with critical security vulnerabilities. Mozilla's security expert Jonathan Nightingale disputes that critique.

Adobe recommends that Linux Flash Player users immediately upgrade to the newest versions.

The Mozilla project has moved both branches of its Firefox browser to versions 2.0.0.19 and 3.0.5. The updates deal primarily with security issues.

The TangoCMS project has released version 2.2.0 of its web page content management system. Central to the release is resolving some security issues.

An unpatched security hole in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser has triggered an advisory that is now recorded with the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT).

The Browser Security Handbook (BSH) from search engine company Google has been published under free license.