ISN List: myspace, godaddy and the ongoing trend

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BBC News: BBC’s download plans get backing “TV shows like Doctor Who are expected to be available for download later this year”

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ISN List: Script wreaks havoc on MySpace “A handful of enterprising people – at least one of them a teen – has devised a Javascript that allows its owner to temporarily access the browser’s MySpace account”

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IT Director: Why Anti Virus is Dead (pdf, via T&C’s)

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IT Director: Why Anti-Virus Profiling is inadequate “There are two techniques that AV products use to try to spot viruses”

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BBC News: Flickr to require Yahoo usernames “Users of the popular photo-sharing site Flickr are upset with the announcement that customers must use Yahoo IDs to log-in from 15 March”

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Anil ask a question (via email):
What is umask and how is it determined on a Linux system?
The user file-creation mode mask (umask) is use to determine the file permission for newly created files. It can be used to control the default file permission for new files. It is a four-digit octal number .
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A vulnerability in Microsoft’s Excel program allows attackers to overflow an internal heap by writing a malformed Excel file that contains a bad Palette Record.

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A consensus exists among many writers about jargon. Throw a bunch of undefined words at a reader and he or she will soon fall asleep. In fact, put one term in a paragraph that the reader doesn’t understand and a page or two later sleep will start to creep and the reader will lose interest.

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Cadre is “a PHP framework for developing large business applications”. A vulnerability in Cadre’s framework allows remote attackers to cause the product to insert arbitrary PHP script into its execution path.

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First of all I have to ask. …(more)…

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Here’s a question that I get all of the time:

“How do most IT departments screw up information security investigations?”

The answer is quite simply: They treat investigations like a turkey shoot.

Now what exactly do I mean by this? Let’s learn using my favorite method of teaching: don’t do what this guy did.

SCENERIO:

Pablo was sick and tired of working at Company, Inc. So tired, in fact, that he was planning on quitting the very next day. He hated his management, hi

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Websense Security Labs reports that they have discovered another information stealing, malicious cod …(more)…

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If the right-wing media keeps spreading lies like the one it about Barack Obama supposedly going to a madrassa as a young boy, then it’s time to consider hiring the meanest lawyers on the planet and to file the hairiest lawsuits imaginable against these creeps.

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If the right-wing media keeps spreading lies like the one it about Barack Obama supposedly going to a madrassa as a young boy, then it’s time to consider hiring the meanest lawyers on the planet and to file the hairiest lawsuits imaginable against these creeps.

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If the right-wing media keeps spreading lies like the one about Barack Obama supposedly going to a madrassa as a child, it’s time to consider hiring the meanest lawyers on the planet to fight these creeps.

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How To Set Up An IRC Server And Anope IRC Services

This tutorial describes how to set up and run an UnrealIRCD server on OpenSuSE 10.2 and Fedora Core 6. It also shows how to install Anope IRC services. Anope is a set of Services for IRC networks that allows users to manage their nicks and channels in a secure and efficient way, and administrators to manage their network with powerful tools.

Read more…

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Symantec is reporting on what might possibly be yet another unpatched vulnerability being exploited …(more)…

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Posted by Cisco Systems Product Security Incident Response Team on Jan 31

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Michael Sutton’s Blog: Evaluating Security Tools “Technology publications love to conduct bake offs of competing technologies and score the contestants”

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ZDNet: U.K. cops to roll out footprint database “Crime scene investigation techniques are taking new strides, it seems, with the launch of a U.K.-wide footwear database”

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eWeek: Google’s Bosworth – Why AJAX Failed (Then Succeeded) “misperceptions of the realities of the way people would use the technology”

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The Register: 419ers rifle through Ecademy.com

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Linux on almost everything.”A self-described “world famous celebrity hacker” has managed to boot uClinux on Sony’s MIPS-based PSP (Playstation Portable). Chris Mulhearn’s port so far lacks support for key PSP peripherals such as the screen, but could interest hackers able to connect serially to the PSP’s “remote headphones” port.” Linux ported to Sony PSP

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Save disk space and bandwidth, and increase the reliability of your site by using the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) remote storage service to host your media files. You’ll also improve the reliability of your site as it serves the increasingly large multimedia files that are so popular in the Web 2. world.

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Migrating user accounts is not an easy task especially if you are a new admin. You need to make sure that file ownership, and password and group membership remains the same.

The article does a good job of explaining the steps required to migrate from old Linux/UNIX server to news fresh installation. It’s a short and sweet tutorial and worth a read, especially for new admins to handle rescuing a dying server job.

You can migrate users from old Linux server to new Linux sever with standard

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This guide shows how to remove a failed hard drive from a Linux RAID1 array (software RAID), and how to add a new hard disk to the RAID1 array without losing data.

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(Posted 31 Jan 2007 by nixcraft)

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(Posted 31 Jan 2007 by BlueVoodoo)

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(Posted 31 Jan 2007 by falko)

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