Information freedom for open source users.

OStatic: “It’s a sad truth that advancements in technology often make jobs obsolete, usually sooner than most people are ready. The more savvy workers learn to keep up with the times…”

Whizzy CMS ‘whizzycms1001.php’ Local File Include Vulnerability

WebKit ‘foreignObject’ Elements Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

WebKit ‘font-face’ and ‘use’ Elements Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Linux User and Developer: “Pros: It’s a pleasing design with some of the best netbook technology on the market”

Once thought to be unhackable, the Android phone is anything but, according to researchers presenting at Black Hat 2010.

Lifehacker: “You need root access to edit a lot of files in Linux, but Terminal work can get tedious. Here”s a simple way to add a shortcut to your applications menu for a root-enabled Nautilus.”

Once thought to be unhackable, the Android phone is anything but, according to researchers presenting at Black Hat 2010.

MakeTechEasier: “Basket Note Pads is a multipurpose note-taking application for KDE. Business people can use it to keep track of important tasks and notes. Writers can use it to organize their thoughts.”

Stealthy, targeted attacks aren’t just for defense agencies and high-tech giants like Google, according to researchers from managed security services firm TrustWave’s Spider Labs research grou

The Lieberman, Collins, Carper cybersecurity bill would do nothing but slow down real progress and undercut Howard Schmidt’s authority, former State of Pennsylvania CISO Robert Maley warns.

The VAR Guy: “First, let me pose a question: Why don’t other industries have the same black/white mentality?”

Hackers appear to be increasingly counting on configuration problems and programming errors rather than software vulnerabilities in order to steal information from computer systems, according to a new study from Verizon.

IT News: “Oracle has shut down servers Sun Microsystems was contributing to the build farm for open source database software, PostgreSQL, forcing enthusiasts to scramble to find new hosts to test updates to their software on the Solaris operating system.”

On the heels of the highly-anticipated release of Wine 1.2, CodeWeavers, Inc. today announced the simultaneous release of CrossOver 9.1 and CrossOver Games 9.1 for both Mac and Linux.

Milian Wolff: “Dominik asked me to blog about a feature in Kate that is still (sadly!) pretty unknown and seldom used: Kate Scripting. As you should know you can script KatePart completely via JavaScript.”

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Autonomy KeyView, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused by a boundary error when parsing record data in compound documents. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow when an application using the vulnerable library parses e.g. a specially crafted Quattro Pro file. Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code. Autonomy KeyView versions 10.4 and 10.9 are affected.

Hackers appear to be increasingly counting on configuration problems and programming errors rather than software vulnerabilities in order to steal information from computer systems, according to a new study from Verizon.

TuxRadar: “We’ve looked at three Linux-based phones that give the iPhone a run for its money. There’s the Palm Pre, running WebOS; Nokia’s Maemo 5-based N900, and the HTC Legend, running Android. Each is a strong challenger to Apple’s device, and they beat it today in significant areas. So, which is best for you?”

Bash has had multi-processing for a long time, via job control, the $! environment variable, and the “wait” command. Judicious use of parentheses for sub-processes, and pipes where necessary, can put comparatively long-term procedures into the background. Bash 4 now provides a new multi-processing paradigm for shell scripting, via the “coproc” statement.