Archive for November, 2011
Posted in November 30th, 2011
Posted in November 30th, 2011
According to eGaming Review (note: the story is theirs exclusively but sits behind a paywall), Facebook is engaged in exploratory talks with a number of UK operators to open its platform to real-money online gambling, maybe even as soon as in the first quarter of 2012.
Citing sources familiar with the discussions, eGR reports that the social networking leader is considering offering an initial eight ‘licences’ to as many UK operators looking to roll out such gambling apps on the Facebook platform.
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Posted in November 30th, 2011
One of the benefits of working in IT is that there is typically a healthy supply of miscellaneous, half-functioning equipment to mess around with. [Vittore] had an old laptop with a busted LCD sitting around (Google Translation), so he figured he might as well get it to do something useful. With a spare desktop LCD [...]
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Posted in November 30th, 2011
This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 12 (Lisa) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear…
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Posted in November 30th, 2011
Adobe this morning announced its acquisition of Efficient Frontier, a digital marketing company, without disclosing the financial terms of the deal. Adobe says the acquisition of the company will enable it to add multi-channel ad campaign forecasting, execution and optimization capabilities to its existing Digital Marketing solutions.
Efficient Frontier will bring to Adobe social ad buying capability for Facebook, employing the company’s optimization algorithms to predict results and drive greater digital marketing ROI for its clients.
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Posted in November 30th, 2011
[b]Instead of going to her room[/b] where she was, he bellowed for her like she was cattle. She came into the room quickly and appeared apprehensive but when she saw me there, her face and body relaxed. She was obviously frightened of this man.
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Posted in November 30th, 2011
Why the weakest link is Microsoft Windows (which therefore should not be used for storing sensitive information), whereas Android is just the target of a lot of FUD this month
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Posted in November 30th, 2011
Security-Assessment.com Release: Hacking Hollywood Slides, Advisories and Exploits
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Posted in November 30th, 2011
By default, Linux Mint 12 ships with a guest session enabled, so a password-less access to the system is possible from the login screen to anybody with physical access to a Linux Mint 12-powered computer. If you do not want that level of openness on yo…
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Posted in November 30th, 2011
Oxide M0N0X1D3 HTTP Server Directory Traversal Vulnerability
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Posted in November 30th, 2011
Re: Re: wordpress Lanoba Social Plugin Xss Vulnerabilities
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Posted in November 30th, 2011
Cloud security raises a lot of hackles (no pun intended). Cloud security is no better or worse than any other but its strength is up to you.
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Posted in November 30th, 2011
Vulnerabilities in 3S CoDeSys 3.4 SP4 Patch 2
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Posted in November 30th, 2011
Mark Shuttleworth, the charismatic founder of Ubuntu, slammed the patent system as broken. He also said that Microsoft’s biggest mistake was to think that they could use patents against competition and wasted most of a decade.
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Posted in November 30th, 2011
Puppet Labs announced today that it is receiving $8.5 million in Series C financing from Google Ventures, Cisco and VMware. The new round of financing brings Puppet Labs up to $15.75 million, which begs the question – what does the IT automation comp…
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Posted in November 30th, 2011
Posted in November 30th, 2011
Posted in November 30th, 2011
Posted in November 30th, 2011
In the mobile startup tradition of quick product iteration, Path Two has hit the app store this evening — expanding beyond photosharing to people, place, music, chat and sleep mode sharing. Path founder Dave Morin says that the second phase of Path is about giving people a place to “capture all the experiences” on their path through life.
The existing Path UI on iOS and Android has been completely revamped (beautifully) and is basically a multimedia timeline. You can right swipe for settings, left swipe to add friends, and swipe down to view your own or your friends’ Paths. To initiate a Path post, click on the + button in the left corner and out pop six option icons.
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Posted in November 30th, 2011
The AvidPhoneticIndexer.exe network daemon that ships with Avid Media Composer version 5.5 suffers from a remote stack buffer overflow. This was demonstrated at Ruxcon 2011 in the Hacking Hollywood talk. Included in this archive are the advisory and a …
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Posted in November 30th, 2011
Secunia Security Advisory – SUSE has issued an update for puppet. This fixes multiple security issues and two vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges and by malicious users …
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Posted in November 30th, 2011
These days, in Linux, we must almost never access the raw command line — a bare prompt in a text-only environment. We have terminal emulators; that is, special windows that host both the line(s) in which you type commands, and the hidden interpreter …
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Posted in November 30th, 2011
Secunia Security Advisory – Dr. Marian Ventuneac has reported a vulnerability in CodeIgniter, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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Posted in November 30th, 2011
rsnapshot is a backup tool written in Perl that utilizes rsync as its back-end. rsnapshot allows users to create customized incremental backup solutions. This article will discuss the following: the benefits of an incremental backup solution, rsnapshot…
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Posted in November 30th, 2011
StoryBoard Quick version 6 suffers from a file format stack buffer overflow. This was demonstrated at Ruxcon 2011 in the Hacking Hollywood talk. Included in this archive are the advisory, a proof of concept and a Metasploit module.
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Posted in November 30th, 2011
Muster Render Farm Management System version 6.1.6 suffer from an arbitrary file download issue due to a directory traversal vulnerability. This was demonstrated at Ruxcon 2011 in the Hacking Hollywood talk. The advisory in this archive includes exploi…
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Posted in November 30th, 2011
Secunia Security Advisory – Oracle has acknowledged a vulnerability in Gimp included in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user’s system.
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Posted in November 30th, 2011
Secunia Security Advisory – Luigi Auriemma has discovered two vulnerabilities in Siemens SIMATIC WinCC Flexible, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information and cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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