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.

The DNSSEC Industry Coalition (DIC) was founded in the U.S. with the goal to drive further development and acceptance of the DNSSEC security protocol. The consortium includes a half dozen top Domain Name Registries and software developers that are currently laying out an action plan.

Samba versions from 3.0.29 include a security failure. Developers have released an update to fix it.