Those of you who regularly install Debian may have noticed a prompt that asks you if you would like to install Popcon, the Debian Popularity Contest. Popcon gathers statistics about package usag…

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SDP Downloader http_response remote buffer overflow exploit.

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The Joomla Front End User Access component suffers from a local file inclusion vulnerability.

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(Posted 31 Jan 2011 by aimar)

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(Posted 31 Jan 2011 by falko)

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www.hcs.harvard.edu appears to suffer from a local file inclusion vulnerability.

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Apache CouchDB versions 0.8.0 through 1.0.1 suffer from a cross site scripting vulnerability.

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Maxthon Browser version 3.0.20.1000 .ref .replace denial of service exploit.

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I loathe press releases like this one from Ooyala, who I must say is our trusted video platform provider in the interest of full disclosure. I’m singling the company out today, because I’m quite fed up, but this is an honest plea for every company that loves to tout growth without saying anything substantial to, please, stop doing that.

So apparently Ooyala “grew revenue by nearly 200%, its customer base by over 50%, and delivered a record number of video technology innovations”.

Sounds impressive, except the statement says absolutely nothing about its revenues, the size of its customer base or what the company has done to innovate video technology.

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arstechnica: How Egypt did (and your government could) shut down the Internet

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The Drupal Panels module suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.

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SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin says sales at the open source company grew more than 50 percent in 2010. And a lot of that growth involved partners deploying SugarCRM in the cloud. [url=http://www.talkincloud.com/sugarcrm-ceo-our-partners-can-profit-in-the…

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The Drupal Custom Pagers module suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.

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Google Chrome version 8.0.552.237 .replace denial of service exploit.

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Started by one of our readers more than a week ago was a compiler deathmatch for comparing the performance of GCC, LLVM Clang, PCC (the Portable C Compiler), TCC (Tiny C Compiler), and Intel’s C Compiler under Arch Linux. This user did not stop there w…

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GetHTTPStatus is a simple python script that scans a set of provided URLs and returns the status codes provided. It has the ability to use cookies if needed.

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Facebook is today launching ‘Places Deals’ in the UK and Europe. Facebook users will be able to get discounts and special deals in shops, cafes and restaurants by checking in on Facebook Places on their smartphone.

We’re live broadcasting the press conference above.

The Telegraph broke an early story on this this morning.

‘Places Deals’ launched in the US last November with Macys, Gap and Starbucks.

European partners will be: Starbucks, Yo Sushi, Mazda (Mazda 20% off an MX5), O2, Argos, Debenhams, Alton Towers and Benetton.

Live now in Germany, France, Italy, Spain.

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Guy Grimland of Israeli business newspaper TheMarker published two articles (both are in Hebrew) this morning about a rumored relationship between Facebook and Face.com.

The first article claims that Face.com rebuffed an acquisition offer worth ‘tens of millions of dollars’. The second article claims that Face.com is powering Facebook Photos’ facial recognition functionality, which was clearly upgraded in the past few months, albeit, with no indication there was a third party involved.

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In an overwhelming vote for renaming, the Hudson project is to become Jenkins. A vote was announced and held on the Hudson developers mailing list after the breakdown of discussions with Oracle over the governance and management of the CI (continuous i…

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Emerson Network Power (www.emersonnetworkpower.com) suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.

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You know how I know Quora is going to be big? No one can shut up about it.

That includes both people who love it and people who hate it. And that dichotomy is important, because it will keep people talking about it. And that will keep people signing up. And it will keep those that already signed up going back. And that’s important because Quora is a service that takes a bit longer than others to get into.

Anyway, the past couple of weekends have brought some truly great bitchmemes about Quora. Last weekend, it was Vivek Wadhwa who kicked things off on this very blog with his post, Why I Don’t Buy The Quora Hype. That post led to a firestorm of reactions (both positive and negative) in both the comments section and on Twitter. In fact, at one point after the post went up last weekend, I swear my entire tweet feed was devoted to it.

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[url=http://lxer.com/team.php][img]http://lxer.com/content/Scott_Ruecker.jpg[/img][/url] [b]LXer Feature: 31-Jan-2011[/b] In the LXWR this week it is all about the desktop environments. Bruce Byfield makes a case for running Xfce, Dr. Tony Young wrangl…

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Robert Scobleized Quora today.

It was only a couple of weeks ago that I mentioned super-blogger Robert Scoble’s penchant for taking very strong positions on technology and startups and then reversing those decisions completely on a whim.

I love him for his quick retreats.

And I certainly admire a man who’s willing to rethink his opinion after weighing new evidence.

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Secunia Security Advisory – A vulnerability has been reported in VLC Media Player, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system.

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Secunia Security Advisory – Red Hat has issued an update for openoffice.org. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system.

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Ten years in the making, the EFLs released their first stable revision this weekend. One of the things I mentioned in my Eight Tech Signs the World Might be Coming to an End was that the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries had reached a beta state. Some…

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Secunia Security Advisory – Debian has issued an update for linux-2.6. This fixes some weaknesses, security issues, and vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose certain system information, bypass certain security re…

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Secunia Security Advisory – Two vulnerabilities have been reported in various Hitachi products, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to potentially gain knowledge of sensitive information and malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Servi…

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Secunia Security Advisory – Pawel Gawinek has reported a vulnerability in Polycom SoundPoint IP Phones, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

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KDE 4.6 was supposed to ship with a transparent Oxygen style but in the end it didn’t make it "due to serious issues (notably with embedded widgets, such as videos) which cannot be fixed at the style level". But that doesn’t mean you can’t install Oxygen-Transparent. Read on!

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