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Source: H Security - Posted by Anthony Pell
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The WordPress.org development team has released version 3.0.5 of its open source blogging and publishing platform, a maintenance and security update that addresses two vulnerabilities; these could have allowed a Contributor- or Author-level user to gain further access to the site. |
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Source: InfoWorld - Posted by Alex
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Routing issues, slow network applications, DNS resolution problems -- a network administrator has to deal with a host of network nuisances on a daily basis. How do you survive when you're constantly under the gun to fix the problems? Like any other professional, you need a solid set of tools. |
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Source: Network World - Posted by Alex
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Half of U.S. government Web sites are vulnerable to commonplace DNS attacks because they haven't deployed a new authentication mechanism that was mandated in 2008, a new study shows. |
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Source: LinuxPlanet - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Linus Torvalds is starting 2011 off with a bang with the release of the 2.6.37 Linux kernel. The new kernel is the first release since 2.6.36 debuted in October. The goal of the new 2.6.37 kernel is to provide developers with improved Linux performance, security and scalability.
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Source: OpenBSD Tech - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Thanks to Mehran for sending this in. OpenBSD IPSEC stack has backdoor and due to that's first open source implementation of ipsec, some OSes have the same piece of code! Since we had the first IPSEC stack available for free, large parts of the code are now found in many other projects/products. Over 10 years, the IPSEC code has gone through many changes and fixes, so it is unclear what the true impact of these allegations are."
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Source: eSecurity Planet - Posted by Alex
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Somehow technology seems to evolve at a rapid pace, even when the standards bodies that help define it do not. Consider that most of today's websites are built on HTML4, a standard that was introduced in 1997. In the thirteen years since, the way we use the Web has changed dramatically, even if the underlying standard has not. |
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Source: CSO Online - Posted by Anthony Pell
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How was it that a loosely-coupled group of cyber-protestors could launch -- with varying degrees of success -- targeted distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against sites such as MasterCard, PayPal, PostFinance, and the website belonging to a Swedish prosecutor? |
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Source: H Security - Posted by Alex
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The WordPress development team has released version 3.0.2 of their popular open source blogging and publishing platform, a maintenance and security update for the 3.0.x branch of WordPress. According to the developers, the update addresses a security issue that could allow a malicious Author-level user to gain further access to a site. |
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Source: ZDNet Asia - Posted by Anthony Pell
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In a previous tip, we looked at setting up an OpenVPN server. Now, I'll take you through the setup of a Linux OpenVPN client. The Linux client will be based on CentOS 5 using OpenVPN 2.0.9. |
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Source: Dark Reading - Posted by Alex
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Protecting databases is hardly an easy task, but it is often the attacks that go after the simplest vulnerabilities that are most successful. Enterprises that stick to the basics will generate the most bang for their database security bucks. |
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