Friday, April 20, 2007

Daily Highlights

The Benton Courier reports an access area to the Saline River no longer is open to the public because of recent vandalism that incapacitated the Arkansas Health Center water system for four days. (See item 16)
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The Associated Press reports Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry is creating a task force to study safety and security at college, university, and CareerTech campuses across Oklahoma. (See item 22)

Information Technology and Telecommunications Sector

26. April 19, US−CERT — Technical Cyber Security Alert TA07−109A: Apple Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities. Apple has released Security Update 2007−004 to correct multiple vulnerabilities affecting Apple Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server. The most serious of these vulnerabilities may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Attackers may take advantage of the less serious vulnerabilities to bypass security restrictions or cause a denial of service.
Users should install Install Apple Security Update 2007−004:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391
Source: http://www.us−cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07−109A.html