While there are application groups for just about every category of software from graphics, software development, office productivity, multimedia, and others, there’s no specific group for security or auditing related packages. Here’s a list of the security and auditing related packages that are now available in the standard Fedora 12 repositories. From intrusion detection to data recovery, Fedora has come a long way in the last couple of years.

Australian news sites are reporting that Integral Energy, the company that supplies energy throughout New South Wales and Queensland, has suffered through a W32.Virut.CF virus outbreak. The company had to disinfect all 1000 of their desktops. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the company’s anti-virus software hadn’t been updated since at least February. Luckily for the Aussies, the power grid’s servers run on Sun Solaris.