Comodo announced today the commercial release of Trustix™ Enterprise Firewall version 4.8, (TEF) a free enterprise class LINUX-based firewall solution. Trustix™ Enterprise Firewall delivers a high performance firewall that monitors network traffic and protects the network against unauthenticated traffic or login attempts which could inject Trojans, worms, or infected files into the network.

One year after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias 'etch' and nearly three years after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias 'sarge' the security support for the old distribution (3.1 alias 'sarge') is coming to an end next month.

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the 7-STABLE branch which introduces many new features along with many improvements to functionality present in the earlier branches. Some of the highlights:

Security researchers have uncovered "critical" security flaws in a version of the Linux kernel used by a large number of popular distributions.The three bugs allow unauthorized users to read or write to kernel memory locations or to access certain resources in certain servers, according to a SecurityFocus advisory.

Embedded security systems leader Discretix, today announced that it will be exhibiting its Multi-Scheme DRM Client, pre-integrated with the embedded Linux platform at TrollTech’s booth at the upcoming Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona, Spain. Mobile DRM adds significant value to devices equipped with the Linux operating system, by establishing a trusted environment for the distribution and consumption of various types of premium content.