(Posted 30 Sep 2011 by falko)

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Mutt SMTP TLS Certificate Security Bypass Vulnerability

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"..it appears GRUB has to be ditched in favor of something under a more permissive license such as the BSD license. Interestingly, an old boot loader for Linux called LiLo (literally meaning “Linux Loader”) has just resumed development last year, and it is licensed under the BSD."

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Android Smartphone USB Tethering (Linux Mint 11)

This
article is about how to tether your Android smartphone with Linux Mint
11 and similar operating systems via USB, meaning how to use your
smartphone’s network to access the Internet on your compute…

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Solar panels are a popular item among people who are trying to do more with less but, at least in the past, they have been pretty expensive to install. For some uses, you can forget using solar panels and use the sunlight directly with very little efficiency loss. A device that lets you do that [...]

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I may not be Steven Spielberg, but every time I see a rerun of Gumby, I’m convinced I could be a famous producer. With Linux, I don’t even have to get a fancy movie set. I can make my own scienc…

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Microsoft is working with an Apache-licensed open-source project to make Hyper-V and Windows Servers an integral part of cloud-computing infrastructure. The software giant is providing support and technical guidance to OpenNebula to put Hyper-V on a li…

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Arbitrary memory corruption in NCSS 07.1.21

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So, as usual, I’ve no wrote in this space for a long time, but today, as my daughter sleeps like a baby (10 months :P), I’ve got the time for some writings.. So since my last post, I’ve acquired a new 13" laptop to replace the good old asus eee 701, I needed a small, fast and good pc for some of my engineering work.

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You might’ve read the news that net neutrality rules are set to become law on November 20th. Of course, how “neutral” the net becomes depends on whether you’re connecting the old fashioned way, by a wire running into your house, or through the …

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[SECURITY] [DSA 2312-1] iceape security update

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DeepSec 2011 Conference – Final Schedule Published

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Full HD resolution (1,920×1,080 pixels) isn’t enough for Sharp. The company has developed [JP] a TV that’s capable of producing images with 3,840×2,160 resolution and is ready to show the device to the public during the CEATEC 2011 exhibition that takes place next week near Tokyo.

The 60-inch 4K TV has been developed in cooperation with the I³ (I-cubed) Research Center in Kawasaki. I am assuming Sharp will share more detailed specs when they bring the prototype to CEATEC (so far, only the size and resolution have been revealed).

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David Caissy, CISSP, GPEN, GSEC, CEH, PMP, B.Sc.A.

Digital Mobile Forensics Deep Dive is a 3-day course written and taught by Wayne Burke of Sequrit (http://www.sequrit.org). I decided to take this course to expend my knowledge into a field I barely…

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Disney, which has been doing business as an MVNO in Japan (Disney Mobile) since 2008, took the wraps off two new Android phones [JP] yesterday. The DM010SH will be rolled out in Japan in October, followed by the DM011SH in December (prices tbd).

Technically, the DM010SH is based on the Sharp’s AQUOS 009SH [JP] and features Android 2.3, a 4-inch LCD with QHD resolution, an 8MP CMOS camera, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, a microSDHC slot, a digital TV tuner, an e-wallet function, infrared communication, etc.

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Secunia Security Advisory – Fedora has issued an update for Django. This fixes multiple vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose certain system information, manipulate certain data, conduct cache poisoning attacks, and ca…

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Secunia Security Advisory – A vulnerability has been reported in the T3BLOG extension for TYPO3, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

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Secunia Security Advisory – A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco Unified Communications Manager, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

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Secunia Security Advisory – A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco Jabber Extensible Communications Platform (Jabber XCP), which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

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Secunia Security Advisory – Ubuntu has issued an update for thunderbird. This fixes multiple vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and compromise a user’s system.

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Secunia Security Advisory – A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco Unified Presence, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

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Secunia Security Advisory – Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Cisco IOS, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

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eSignal Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

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The definition for the term hacker is as elusive as those who earn the moniker. Find out from the accepted source what a hacker really is.

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PiTiVi Video Editor has just reached version 0.15 bringing in new features and fixes. This is last PiTiVi release based on tradition engine. PiTiVi 2.0 will be based on GES (GStreamer Editing Services) and will bring better performance and stability to…

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GNOME 3.2 was officially released yesterday with all those cool features which I’m sure you’ve all been waiting for. Let’s take a look at what’s new:

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ZABBIX ‘popup.php’ Information Disclosure Vulnerability

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InduSoft ISSymbol ActiveX Control ‘ISSymbol.ocx’ Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

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A client for the popular Ubuntu One online storage service from Canonical is now available for download for the Windows platform.

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When the Federal Communications Commission last week issued its final network neutrality rules and said they would go into effect at the end of November, lawsuits against the policy could finally begin. Verizon and Metro PCS, both wireless carriers, ha…

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