An anonymous reader writes “Despite warnings that a cyberattack could cripple the nation’s power supply, a U.S. Congressional report (PDF) finds that power companies’ efforts to protect the power grid are insufficient. Attacks are apparently commonplace, with one utility claiming they fight off some 10,000 attempted attacks every month. The report moreover found that while[...]
An anonymous reader writes “Despite warnings that a cyberattack could cripple the nation’s power supply, a U.S. Congressional report (PDF) finds that power companies’ efforts to protect the power grid are insufficient. Attacks are apparently commonplace, with one utility claiming they fight off some 10,000 attempted attacks every month. The report moreover found that while[...]
Obeseus is a light-weight, high-speed ip DDOS detector that has been designed to run on an Intel probe running an advanced 10 Gb/s FPGA card. It detects TCP floods, Fragment Floods, raw ICMP/TCP/UDP, reflected (DNS / SMURF) & BOGON misuse. It moreover detects application misuse in HTTP & UDP. View Source
Obeseus is a light-weight, high-speed ip DDOS detector that has been designed to run on an Intel probe running an advanced 10 Gb/s FPGA card. It detects TCP floods, Fragment Floods, raw ICMP/TCP/UDP, reflected (DNS / SMURF) & BOGON misuse. It moreover detects application misuse in HTTP & UDP. View Source
WordPress Flagallery-skins plugin suffers from an SQL Injection vulnerability. Note that this advisory has site-specific information. View Source
WordPress Flagallery-skins plugin suffers from an SQL Injection vulnerability. Note that this advisory has site-specific information. View Source
An anonymous reader writes “Google on Tuesday released Chrome version 27 for Windows, Mac, & Linux. The new version features a huge boost to page loads (now 5 percent faster on average) as well as significant updates for developers. The speed improvement is thanks to the introduction of ‘smarter behind-the-scenes resource scheduling,’ according to Google.[...]
An anonymous reader writes “Google on Tuesday released Chrome version 27 for Windows, Mac, & Linux. The new version features a huge boost to page loads (now 5 percent faster on average) as well as significant updates for developers. The speed improvement is thanks to the introduction of ‘smarter behind-the-scenes resource scheduling,’ according to Google.[...]
Wired reports on a cluster of mini-satellites that will shortly be launched into orbit that will assist U.S. special forces personnel during manhunts. “SOCOM is putting eight miniature communications satellites, each approximately the size of a water jug, on top of the Minotaur rocket that’s getting ready to launch from Wallops Island, Virginia. They’ll sit[...]
Wired reports on a cluster of mini-satellites that will shortly be launched into orbit that will assist U.S. special forces personnel during manhunts. “SOCOM is putting eight miniature communications satellites, each approximately the size of a water jug, on top of the Minotaur rocket that’s getting ready to launch from Wallops Island, Virginia. They’ll sit[...]
An anonymous reader writes “When in early 2010 Google shared with the public that they had been breached in what became known as the Aurora attacks, they said that the attackers received their hands on some source code & were looking to access Gmail accounts of Tibetan activists. What they didn’t make public is that[...]
An anonymous reader writes “When in early 2010 Google shared with the public that they had been breached in what became known as the Aurora attacks, they said that the attackers received their hands on some source code & were looking to access Gmail accounts of Tibetan activists. What they didn’t make public is that[...]
An anonymous reader writes “Seth Ladd has an superior write-up of Dart: ‘When Dart was originally launched, many developers mistook it for some sort of Java clone. In truth, Dart is inspired by a range of languages such as Smalltalk, Strongtalk, Erlang, C#, & JavaScript. Get past the semicolons & curly braces, & you’ll see[...]
An anonymous reader writes “Seth Ladd has an superior write-up of Dart: ‘When Dart was originally launched, many developers mistook it for some sort of Java clone. In truth, Dart is inspired by a range of languages such as Smalltalk, Strongtalk, Erlang, C#, & JavaScript. Get past the semicolons & curly braces, & you’ll see[...]
New submitter QuantumPion writes “The Environmental Protection Agency released draft guidelines last month that could significantly relax radiation hazard standards in the case of a radiological event in the United States by using risk-based decisions. The goal is to have limits that make sense in an emergency that are different from the limits in day-to-day[...]
New submitter QuantumPion writes “The Environmental Protection Agency released draft guidelines last month that could significantly relax radiation hazard standards in the case of a radiological event in the United States by using risk-based decisions. The goal is to have limits that make sense in an emergency that are different from the limits in day-to-day[...]
A usual local privilege escalation vulnerability has been discovered in multiple Infotecs ViPNet products. The affected versions include ViPNet Client version 3.2.10 (15632), ViPNet Coordinator version 3.2.10 (15632), ViPNet SafeDisk version 4.1 (0.5643), & ViPNet Personal Firewall version 3.1. Prior versions of these products are moreover affected. View Source
A usual local privilege escalation vulnerability has been discovered in multiple Infotecs ViPNet products. The affected versions include ViPNet Client version 3.2.10 (15632), ViPNet Coordinator version 3.2.10 (15632), ViPNet SafeDisk version 4.1 (0.5643), & ViPNet Personal Firewall version 3.1. Prior versions of these products are moreover affected. View Source
Nerval’s Lobster writes “Fresh off purchasing Tumblr for $1.1 billion, Yahoo has moved to the next stage of what’s becoming a company-wide reboot: fixing Flickr, the photo-sharing service that it acquired in 2005 & subsequently allowed to languish. Yahoo boosted Flickr accounts’ individual storage capacity to one free terabyte, revamped the Website’s overall look, &[...]
Nerval’s Lobster writes “Fresh off purchasing Tumblr for $1.1 billion, Yahoo has moved to the next stage of what’s becoming a company-wide reboot: fixing Flickr, the photo-sharing service that it acquired in 2005 & subsequently allowed to languish. Yahoo boosted Flickr accounts’ individual storage capacity to one free terabyte, revamped the Website’s overall look, &[...]
Slackware Security Advisory – New Linux kernel packages are available for Slackware 13.37 & 14.0 to fix a security issue. View Source
Slackware Security Advisory – New Linux kernel packages are available for Slackware 13.37 & 14.0 to fix a security issue. View Source
Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0847-01 – The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. A flaw was found in the way the Xen hypervisor AMD IOMMU driver handled interrupt remapping entries. By default, a single interrupt remapping table is used, & old interrupt remapping entries are not cleared, potentially[...]
Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0847-01 – The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. A flaw was found in the way the Xen hypervisor AMD IOMMU driver handled interrupt remapping entries. By default, a single interrupt remapping table is used, & old interrupt remapping entries are not cleared, potentially[...]
Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0848-01 – Red Hat Network Satellite is a system management tool for Linux-based infrastructures. It allows for provisioning, monitoring, & remote management of multiple Linux deployments with a single, centralized tool. It was discovered that Red Hat Network Satellite did not fully check the authenticity of a client beyond the initial[...]
Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0848-01 – Red Hat Network Satellite is a system management tool for Linux-based infrastructures. It allows for provisioning, monitoring, & remote management of multiple Linux deployments with a single, centralized tool. It was discovered that Red Hat Network Satellite did not fully check the authenticity of a client beyond the initial[...]
Ubuntu Security Notice 1832-1 – Emmanuel Bouillon discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed images when using the tiff2pdf tool. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted TIFF image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user[...]
Ubuntu Security Notice 1832-1 – Emmanuel Bouillon discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed images when using the tiff2pdf tool. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted TIFF image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user[...]
Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-166 – The kpasswd service provided by kadmind was vulnerable to a UDP ping-pong attack. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. View Source
Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-166 – The kpasswd service provided by kadmind was vulnerable to a UDP ping-pong attack. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. View Source
cervesaebraciator writes “According to Quartz, ‘[Anjan Contractor's] Systems & Materials Research Corporation just received a six month, $125,000 grant from NASA to create a prototype of his universal food synthesizer. But Contractor, a mechanical engineer with a background in 3-D printing, envisions a much more mundane — & ultimately more significant — use for the[...]
cervesaebraciator writes “According to Quartz, ‘[Anjan Contractor's] Systems & Materials Research Corporation just received a six month, $125,000 grant from NASA to create a prototype of his universal food synthesizer. But Contractor, a mechanical engineer with a background in 3-D printing, envisions a much more mundane — & ultimately more significant — use for the[...]
necro81 writes “Although its Tevatron particle accelerator has gone dark, Fermi Laboratory outside Chicago is still doing physics. A new experiment, called muon g-2 will investigate quantum mechanical behavior of the electron’s heavier sibling: the muon. Fermi needs a large ring chamber to store the muons it produces & investigates, & it just so happens[...]
necro81 writes “Although its Tevatron particle accelerator has gone dark, Fermi Laboratory outside Chicago is still doing physics. A new experiment, called muon g-2 will investigate quantum mechanical behavior of the electron’s heavier sibling: the muon. Fermi needs a large ring chamber to store the muons it produces & investigates, & it just so happens[...]
Lucas123 writes “U.S. Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass) is pushing a bill that would require all U.S. handgun manufacturers to include ‘personalization technology’ in their weapons. Tierney said he received the idea for The Personalized Handgun Safety Act of 2013 from the latest James Bond film, Skyfall. In it Bond escapes death when his handgun, which[...]
Lucas123 writes “U.S. Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass) is pushing a bill that would require all U.S. handgun manufacturers to include ‘personalization technology’ in their weapons. Tierney said he received the idea for The Personalized Handgun Safety Act of 2013 from the latest James Bond film, Skyfall. In it Bond escapes death when his handgun, which[...]
jammag writes “Free sodas, candy & energy bars can be surprisingly significant to developers, says longtime coder Eric Spiegel. They need the perks, not to mention the caffeine boost. More important, free sodas from management are like the canary in the coal mine. If they obtain cut, then layoffs might be next. ‘The sodas are[...]
jammag writes “Free sodas, candy & energy bars can be surprisingly significant to developers, says longtime coder Eric Spiegel. They need the perks, not to mention the caffeine boost. More important, free sodas from management are like the canary in the coal mine. If they obtain cut, then layoffs might be next. ‘The sodas are[...]
What little boy or girl never wanted a hovercraft? Something loud that could travel over water, pavement, maybe even over a plowed field or through a swamp? Ben King obviously wanted one, so after he grew up & received his PhD in physics & found a satisfactory job, he founded Lone Star Hovercraft. Timothy Lord[...]
What little boy or girl never wanted a hovercraft? Something loud that could travel over water, pavement, maybe even over a plowed field or through a swamp? Ben King obviously wanted one, so after he grew up & received his PhD in physics & found a satisfactory job, he founded Lone Star Hovercraft. Timothy Lord[...]
Today at a press conference leading up to E3, Microsoft unveiled its next-gen games/entertainment console, the Xbox One. Their stated goal for the Xbox One is to have a single device provide “all of your entertainment.” One of the huge changes is increased support for voice & & gesture input. You can turn the console[...]
Today at a press conference leading up to E3, Microsoft unveiled its next-gen games/entertainment console, the Xbox One. Their stated goal for the Xbox One is to have a single device provide “all of your entertainment.” One of the huge changes is increased support for voice & & gesture input. You can turn the console[...]
Writer & novelist Neil Gaiman & Amber Benson of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame have teamed up to star in a new vampire movie called, Blood Kiss. Kickstarted by ST:TNG & Emmy-winning writer Michael Reaves, Blood Kiss is a film noir vampire movie set in Golden Age Hollywood. Of his acting debut Gaiman says, “I’m[...]
Writer & novelist Neil Gaiman & Amber Benson of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame have teamed up to star in a new vampire movie called, Blood Kiss. Kickstarted by ST:TNG & Emmy-winning writer Michael Reaves, Blood Kiss is a film noir vampire movie set in Golden Age Hollywood. Of his acting debut Gaiman says, “I’m[...]
Kimai version 0.9.2.1306-3 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability. View Source
Kimai version 0.9.2.1306-3 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability. View Source
dcblogs writes “The Senate’s immigration bill may force the large offshore outsourcing firms to reduce their use of H-1B visa-holding staff, forcing them to hire more local workers & raising their costs. But one large Indian firm, Infosys, will try to offset cost increases with software robotics. Infosys recently announced a partnership with IPsoft, a[...]
dcblogs writes “The Senate’s immigration bill may force the large offshore outsourcing firms to reduce their use of H-1B visa-holding staff, forcing them to hire more local workers & raising their costs. But one large Indian firm, Infosys, will try to offset cost increases with software robotics. Infosys recently announced a partnership with IPsoft, a[...]
First time accepted submitter Aaron B Lingwood writes “As reported by TorrentFreak, Viacom, Paramount, Fox & Lionsgate have all asked Google to take down links pointing to the Pirate Bay documentary ‘TPB-AFK.’ The film, created by Simon Klose, is available for no cost & has already been watched by millions of people. The public response[...]
First time accepted submitter Aaron B Lingwood writes “As reported by TorrentFreak, Viacom, Paramount, Fox & Lionsgate have all asked Google to take down links pointing to the Pirate Bay documentary ‘TPB-AFK.’ The film, created by Simon Klose, is available for no cost & has already been watched by millions of people. The public response[...]
Trailrunner7 writes “The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit has been spearheading botnet takedowns & other anti-cybercrime operations for many years, & it has had remarkable success. But the cybercrime problem isn’t going away anytime soon, so the DCU is in the process of building a new cybercrime center here, & shortly will roll out a new[...]
Trailrunner7 writes “The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit has been spearheading botnet takedowns & other anti-cybercrime operations for many years, & it has had remarkable success. But the cybercrime problem isn’t going away anytime soon, so the DCU is in the process of building a new cybercrime center here, & shortly will roll out a new[...]
Just a few weeks after Cody Wilson & friends successfully fired an instance of their own 3-D printed handgun design, Sparrowvsrevolution writes, “a couple of Wisconsin hobbyist gunsmiths have already managed to adapt Defense Distributed’s so-called Liberator firearm & print it on a $1,725 Lulzbot 3D printer, a consumer grade machine that’s far cheaper than[...]
Just a few weeks after Cody Wilson & friends successfully fired an instance of their own 3-D printed handgun design, Sparrowvsrevolution writes, “a couple of Wisconsin hobbyist gunsmiths have already managed to adapt Defense Distributed’s so-called Liberator firearm & print it on a $1,725 Lulzbot 3D printer, a consumer grade machine that’s far cheaper than[...]
walterbyrd writes “In 2012, IBM started retiring the Lotus brand. Now 1-2-3, the core product that brought Lotus its fame, takes its turn on the chopping block. IBM stated, ‘Effective on the dates listed below, [June 11, 2013] IBM will withdraw from marketing part numbers from the following product release(s) licensed under the IBM International[...]
walterbyrd writes “In 2012, IBM started retiring the Lotus brand. Now 1-2-3, the core product that brought Lotus its fame, takes its turn on the chopping block. IBM stated, ‘Effective on the dates listed below, [June 11, 2013] IBM will withdraw from marketing part numbers from the following product release(s) licensed under the IBM International[...]
An anonymous reader writes “The Australian government came a step closer to formalising its plans to make Asian language study compulsory for schools this week. It has released a draft curriculum for public consultation which reveals plans to include Indonesian, Korean & french language in the curriculum. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard publicly stated in[...]
An anonymous reader writes “The Australian government came a step closer to formalising its plans to make Asian language study compulsory for schools this week. It has released a draft curriculum for public consultation which reveals plans to include Indonesian, Korean & french language in the curriculum. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard publicly stated in[...]
mspohr writes with news that Apple might be in a bit of hot water over its policy of offshoring revenues to favorable tax jurisdictions. Only they take it a step further, from the article: “Apple relied on a ‘complex web of offshore entities’ & U.S. tax loopholes to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S.[...]
mspohr writes with news that Apple might be in a bit of hot water over its policy of offshoring revenues to favorable tax jurisdictions. Only they take it a step further, from the article: “Apple relied on a ‘complex web of offshore entities’ & U.S. tax loopholes to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S.[...]
Ophcrack version 3.5.0 suffers from stack based buffer overflow vulnerability that leads to local code execution. View Source
Ophcrack version 3.5.0 suffers from stack based buffer overflow vulnerability that leads to local code execution. View Source
judgecorp writes “German researchers from the Fraunhover & Karlsruhe institutes have achieved 40Gbps transfers over 1km using a wireless link. The new record raises the hope that point-to-point wireless could be used instead of expensive fibers in some rural broadband applications.” Partially thanks to transmitting between 200GHz & 280GHz. Read more of this story at[...]
judgecorp writes “German researchers from the Fraunhover & Karlsruhe institutes have achieved 40Gbps transfers over 1km using a wireless link. The new record raises the hope that point-to-point wireless could be used instead of expensive fibers in some rural broadband applications.” Partially thanks to transmitting between 200GHz & 280GHz. Read more of this story at[...]
DavidGilbert99 writes “LulzSec’s star burnt brightly in the short period it was active, yet things quickly turned sour when its core members began getting arrested. Last week three of the six core members were sentenced in the UK, yet this only served to highlight the fact that one member of the group, known as Avunit,[...]
DavidGilbert99 writes “LulzSec’s star burnt brightly in the short period it was active, yet things quickly turned sour when its core members began getting arrested. Last week three of the six core members were sentenced in the UK, yet this only served to highlight the fact that one member of the group, known as Avunit,[...]
Some Linksys Routers are vulnerable to an authenticated OS command injection on their web interface where default credentials are admin/admin or admin/password. Since it is a blind OS command injection vulnerability, there is no output for the executed command when using the cmd generic payload. This Metasploit module has been tested on a Linksys WRT160n[...]
Some Linksys Routers are vulnerable to an authenticated OS command injection on their web interface where default credentials are admin/admin or admin/password. Since it is a blind OS command injection vulnerability, there is no output for the executed command when using the cmd generic payload. This Metasploit module has been tested on a Linksys WRT160n[...]
A local code execution vulnerability is detected in the official PlayStation 3 v4.31 Firmware. The vulnerability allows local attackers to inject & execute code out of vulnerable PlayStation 3 menu main web context. View Source
A local code execution vulnerability is detected in the official PlayStation 3 v4.31 Firmware. The vulnerability allows local attackers to inject & execute code out of vulnerable PlayStation 3 menu main web context. View Source
Trend Micro DirectPass 1.5.0.1060 suffers from local command/path injection, persistent code injection, & a denial of service vulnerability. View Source
Trend Micro DirectPass 1.5.0.1060 suffers from local command/path injection, persistent code injection, & a denial of service vulnerability. View Source
richlv writes “Latvian police recently raided the home of a history teacher & confiscated his computer. The crime? Scanning a history book & making it available on his website covering various topics on history. The raid was based on a complaint from the publisher (Google Translate to English), which has a near-monopoly on educational materials[...]
richlv writes “Latvian police recently raided the home of a history teacher & confiscated his computer. The crime? Scanning a history book & making it available on his website covering various topics on history. The raid was based on a complaint from the publisher (Google Translate to English), which has a near-monopoly on educational materials[...]
hypnosec writes “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has started accepting donations in the form of Bitcoins again after a two year hiatus, stating that the legal uncertainty hovering over the digital currency has all yet disappeared. On their blog the EFF noted that a report from U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), in[...]
hypnosec writes “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has started accepting donations in the form of Bitcoins again after a two year hiatus, stating that the legal uncertainty hovering over the digital currency has all yet disappeared. On their blog the EFF noted that a report from U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), in[...]
Cbs228 writes “During last week’s Google I/O conference, the company announced a replacement for its aging Talk instant messenger: Google Hangouts. Hangouts, which is only available for Android, iOS, & Chrome, offers closer integration with Google+. Unfortunately, the new product drops support for the XMPP instant messaging protocol, which has been an integral part of[...]
Cbs228 writes “During last week’s Google I/O conference, the company announced a replacement for its aging Talk instant messenger: Google Hangouts. Hangouts, which is only available for Android, iOS, & Chrome, offers closer integration with Google+. Unfortunately, the new product drops support for the XMPP instant messaging protocol, which has been an integral part of[...]
rudy_wayne writes with news that the Prenda lawyers recently sanctioned by a federal judge are starting to face consequences. From the article: “On Friday, Paul Hansmeier, a Minnesota attorney who has been pointed to as one of the masterminds of the Prenda copyright-trolling scheme, filed an emergency motion to stay the $81,000 sanctions order while[...]
rudy_wayne writes with news that the Prenda lawyers recently sanctioned by a federal judge are starting to face consequences. From the article: “On Friday, Paul Hansmeier, a Minnesota attorney who has been pointed to as one of the masterminds of the Prenda copyright-trolling scheme, filed an emergency motion to stay the $81,000 sanctions order while[...]
Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0834-02 – JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java applications based on JBoss Application Server 7. This release serves as a replacement for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.0.1, & includes bug fixes & enhancements. View Source
Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0834-02 – JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java applications based on JBoss Application Server 7. This release serves as a replacement for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.0.1, & includes bug fixes & enhancements. View Source
Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0829-01 – Security fixes: It was found that the kernel-rt update RHBA-2012:0044 introduced an integer conversion issue in the Linux kernel’s Performance Events implementation. This led to a user-supplied index into the perf_swevent_enabled array not being validated properly, resulting in out-of-bounds kernel memory access. A local, unprivileged user could use this[...]
Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0829-01 – Security fixes: It was found that the kernel-rt update RHBA-2012:0044 introduced an integer conversion issue in the Linux kernel’s Performance Events implementation. This led to a user-supplied index into the perf_swevent_enabled array not being validated properly, resulting in out-of-bounds kernel memory access. A local, unprivileged user could use this[...]
Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0833-01 – JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java applications based on JBoss Application Server 7. This release serves as a replacement for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.0.1, & includes bug fixes & enhancements. View Source
Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0833-01 – JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java applications based on JBoss Application Server 7. This release serves as a replacement for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.0.1, & includes bug fixes & enhancements. View Source
Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0839-02 – JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java applications based on JBoss Application Server 7. This release serves as a replacement for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.0.1, & includes bug fixes & enhancements. View Source
Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0839-02 – JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java applications based on JBoss Application Server 7. This release serves as a replacement for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.0.1, & includes bug fixes & enhancements. View Source
Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0840-01 – The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. It was found that the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 kernel update introduced an integer conversion issue in the Linux kernel’s Performance Events implementation. This led to a user-supplied index into the perf_swevent_enabled array not[...]
Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0840-01 – The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. It was found that the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 kernel update introduced an integer conversion issue in the Linux kernel’s Performance Events implementation. This led to a user-supplied index into the perf_swevent_enabled array not[...]
Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0841-01 – The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. It was found that the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 kernel update introduced an integer conversion issue in the Linux kernel’s Performance Events implementation. This led to a user-supplied index into the perf_swevent_enabled array not[...]
Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0841-01 – The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. It was found that the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 kernel update introduced an integer conversion issue in the Linux kernel’s Performance Events implementation. This led to a user-supplied index into the perf_swevent_enabled array not[...]
Nerval’s Lobster writes “Location is everything when choosing the site of a data center. Firms such as Microsoft & Google & Facebook spend a lot of time looking into the costs of land, power, regulation & taxes before placing their respective data centers in a particular place. Sometimes, that local tax bill comes into play[...]
Nerval’s Lobster writes “Location is everything when choosing the site of a data center. Firms such as Microsoft & Google & Facebook spend a lot of time looking into the costs of land, power, regulation & taxes before placing their respective data centers in a particular place. Sometimes, that local tax bill comes into play[...]
An anonymous reader writes “Despite warnings that a cyberattack could cripple the nation’s power supply, a U.S. Congressional report (PDF) finds that power companies’ efforts to protect the power grid are insufficient. Attacks are apparently commonplace, with one utility claiming they fight off some 10,000 attempted attacks every month. The report moreover found that while[...]
An anonymous reader writes “Despite warnings that a cyberattack could cripple the nation’s power supply, a U.S. Congressional report (PDF) finds that power companies’ efforts to protect the power grid are insufficient. Attacks are apparently commonplace, with one utility claiming they fight off some 10,000 attempted attacks every month. The report moreover found that while[...]
Obeseus is a light-weight, high-speed ip DDOS detector that has been designed to run on an Intel probe running an advanced 10 Gb/s FPGA card. It detects TCP floods, Fragment Floods, raw ICMP/TCP/UDP, reflected (DNS / SMURF) & BOGON misuse. It moreover detects application misuse in HTTP & UDP. View Source
Obeseus is a light-weight, high-speed ip DDOS detector that has been designed to run on an Intel probe running an advanced 10 Gb/s FPGA card. It detects TCP floods, Fragment Floods, raw ICMP/TCP/UDP, reflected (DNS / SMURF) & BOGON misuse. It moreover detects application misuse in HTTP & UDP. View Source
WordPress Flagallery-skins plugin suffers from an SQL Injection vulnerability. Note that this advisory has site-specific information. View Source
WordPress Flagallery-skins plugin suffers from an SQL Injection vulnerability. Note that this advisory has site-specific information. View Source
An anonymous reader writes “Google on Tuesday released Chrome version 27 for Windows, Mac, & Linux. The new version features a huge boost to page loads (now 5 percent faster on average) as well as significant updates for developers. The speed improvement is thanks to the introduction of ‘smarter behind-the-scenes resource scheduling,’ according to Google.[...]
An anonymous reader writes “Google on Tuesday released Chrome version 27 for Windows, Mac, & Linux. The new version features a huge boost to page loads (now 5 percent faster on average) as well as significant updates for developers. The speed improvement is thanks to the introduction of ‘smarter behind-the-scenes resource scheduling,’ according to Google.[...]
Wired reports on a cluster of mini-satellites that will shortly be launched into orbit that will assist U.S. special forces personnel during manhunts. “SOCOM is putting eight miniature communications satellites, each approximately the size of a water jug, on top of the Minotaur rocket that’s getting ready to launch from Wallops Island, Virginia. They’ll sit[...]
Wired reports on a cluster of mini-satellites that will shortly be launched into orbit that will assist U.S. special forces personnel during manhunts. “SOCOM is putting eight miniature communications satellites, each approximately the size of a water jug, on top of the Minotaur rocket that’s getting ready to launch from Wallops Island, Virginia. They’ll sit[...]
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