Archive for November, 2010
Posted in November 30th, 2010
[Bissinblob] has about 70 of these WYSE 3125SE thin clients and is offering them up at $15 a piece plus shipping. That’s quite a steal! The specs are as follows: NS Geode GX1 core (SC2200)266Mhz Flash 32MB RAM 64MB Video 1280×1024(at 8-bit color), 1024×768 (at 16-bit) 10/100 network 3x usb 1x serial 1x parallel 2x [...]
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
Last night an update was published as to the state of Unity in Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 1, which is the Unity desktop interface that Canonical will be using in their next Ubuntu release rather than the GNOME Shell. Most all other GNOME distributions, however…
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
Potential security vulnerabilities have been identified in HP Insight Control Power Management for Windows.
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
Crossposted on Tikkun Daily
By Neil Hanson
The flap over the TSA searches of airline passengers highlights just how far we’ve fallen into the deep chasm of slavery to fear and the illusion of security.
I have zero doubt in my mind that the deep and…
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
Cross Site Request Forgery, Cross Site Scripting and Privilege Escalation vulnerabilities have been identified in HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) for HP-UX, Linux, and Windows.
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
Cross Site Scripting, Privilege Escalation and Unauthorized Access vulnerabilities have been identified in HP Insight Control Server Migration for Windows.
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
A critical vulnerability was discovered in Microsoft Office Word.
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
Microsoft Office Word contains Word Bookmarks Invalid Pointer Vulnerability.
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
Pandora Flexible Monitoring System (Pandora FMS) is vulnereable to Authentication bypass, OS Command Injection, SQL Injection, Blind SQL Injection and Path Traversal.
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
[Brian Grabski] was asked by a friend to design and build a dolly that would move a camera during a time-lapse sequence. Above you can see the product of his toils, and the videos after the break show off the parts that went into the design and showcase effectiveness of the build. The dolly is designed [...]
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
Who wouldn’t want to install this little bot as your newest pencil holder? Place a pencil tip-down and it will keep it from falling using two motors. There is a Dynamic Vision Sensor for each axis that provides feedback, but it’s not the same as using a camera. These sensors pick up changes in pixel [...]
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 10.10
Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed
for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install
Lighttpd on an Ubuntu 10.10 server with PHP5…
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
Lightweight Portable Security is a LiveCD distro designed by the US Department of Defense to function as a secure end node, in other words, a safe environment from which to access the web or a r…
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
[Craig] cracked open a multimeter to unlock RS232 serial communications that can be used for data logging. There’s a couple of things that make this possible. First of all, the multimeter’s processor is not covered in a black epoxy blob, leaving the pins exposed for hacking. Second, the chip model is known and [Craig] was [...]
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
(Posted 30 Nov 2010 by falko)
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
I love coffee, I love tea. I love the Java Jive and it loves me.* If Java is giving you jive, put your fears aside. You’ll soon love it sweet and hot. Or maybe not. How many times have you run into problems with Java? Chances are very good that most of…
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Written by Francis Kissling for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.
Last week’s published comments by Pope Benedict regarding the case by case permissibility of condom use to prevent the tran…
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
If you are a user of OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice you might be familiar with styles and formatting. These are pre-defined text formats that you can select from in order to change various aspects of your text. With both OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice y…
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
We received a report this morning (Thanks Rob) asking if we’ve heard about any other problems with G …(more)…
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
Payvment, a startup that allows anyone to create and operate a retail storefront on Facebook, has raised $6 million in Series B funding led by Sierra Ventures with a BlueRun Ventures participating in the round. This brings the startup’s total funding to $8 million.
Payvment’s Facebook App lets anyone create a retail store on the social network. The app lets you set up products, categories of products (i.e. shoes, T-shirts, sweaters), import photos, list terms of service and shipping options and more. Once you set up your online shop on Facebook, it will show up in a separate tab on your profile or page under “storefront”.
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 30 November 2010 at 13:36:00
Site still up and running as Cablegate saga rolls on
Notorious whistle-blowing web site WikiLeaks is suffering a second
distributed denial-of-service attack, as the furore over its r…
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
Today VMWare released a Security Advisory at this URL:
http://lists.vmware …(more)…
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
CUPS Server ‘cups/ipp.c’ Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
techdirt: As The Pirate Bay Guys Lose Their Appeal, When Does Google Regret Not Coming To Their Defense?
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
Pandora Labs: 4chan Users Organize Surgical Strike Against MPAA “Operation:Payback is now targeting Warner Bros Studios”
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Posted in November 30th, 2010
MIT Kerberos Checksum AD-SIGNEDPATH and AD-KDC-ISSUED Security Bypass Vulnerability
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