What started as 'targeted' attacks may now expand into a full-blown pandemic, since a hacker figured out how to turn hints into a Metasploit exploit module.
Server Snapshot: Stratus' fault-tolerant servers are designed to fill a clearly defined niche. Its positioning as the "availability company" has set it apart from the OEM Rat Pack and resulted in steady growth.
<b>LWN.net:</b> "But in reality the FLOSS ecosystem relies on a complex legal framework in order to run smoothly and to stand up to proprietary software competition: the various software licenses, contribution agreements, copyright and other "intellectual property" law."
Server Snapshot: Stratus' fault-tolerant servers are designed to fill a clearly defined niche. Its positioning as the "availability company" has set it apart from the OEM Rat Pack and resulted in steady growth.
IT security firm Sense of Security has demonstrated how a vulnerability in older versions of the Web server could giver hackers control over databases.
<b>Howtoforge:</b> "Speed Dreams is is a free, 3d cross-platform, open source motorsport simulation and racing game, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). This guide shows how to install it on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop."
<b>Tech Source:</b> "Already, various thinkers about the future have proposed a number of candidates for the designation "twenty-first-century literacy." That is, what are the key skills humans must possess in order to be considered literate?"
Many database shops have no idea of the security breaches that occur across user granted privilege and floating unused synonyms. James Koopmann offers tips for granting privileges explicitly to a user or group of users, and assigning privileges to a role and then granting that role to users.
Users are limited to two pre-orders, but that makes sense, according to one analyst. The details of the AT&T 3G contract are out as well, despite the fact 3G units are not coming out for another two months.
<b>The H Open:</b> "The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has elected Simon Phipps to the board of directors; Phipps recently left Oracle after serving as Sun's Chief Open Source Officer."
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server earlier this week became the first distribution to be validated on all hardware platforms supported by DB2 for Linux and validated to run DB2 Enterprise Server Edition.
<b>Tech Source:</b> "Our next entry for the "The $100.00 (USD) Coolest Linux Workspace Contest" was sent all the way from the Netherlands by a digital forensics student named Huseyin. He is also working as an intern at an IT-audit company and described Linux as the best OS to do research on."
Alternative providers like OpenDNS and Google's Public DNS may provide better browsing performance and better security, and can help protect you from known phishing and malware-infected domains.
Alternative providers like OpenDNS and Google's Public DNS may provide better browsing performance and better security, and can help protect you from known phishing and malware-infected domains.
<b>Tech Republic:</b> "What he has proposed really struck me as something Linux CAN do and SHOULD do. It will be another revolution in the desktop thanks to the Linux community."
<b>Really Linux:</b> "In this article Mark Rais offers beginning Linux web administrators some guidance with regard to proper back up and restore of a dynamic website to help prevent a catastrophic moment."
<b>Tech Broiler:</b> "Intel's Wind River Hypervisor and technologies like it could usher in a new age of Device-agnostic Smartphone Operating Systems and unprecedented customer choice"
Join BI Architect Bill Pearson in this introduction to Security in Analysis Services 2008. Here we explore security concepts and implementation, and look forward to hands-on practice with security in other articles of this subseries.