Archive for September, 2010

Iran confirms Stuxnet cyber attack

Monday, September 27th, 2010

According to the Iranian government, the attacks have not caused any serious damage. Computers at the Bushehr nuclear power station were among the targets. It remains unclear who was behind the attack
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Sharp announces 5.5" and 10.8" Android tablets for Japan

Monday, September 27th, 2010

Sharp has announced it will launch two Android-based tablets and an e-bookstore. The tablets are designed to display Japanese book and magazine content,
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SharePoint affected by ASP.NET vulnerability

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

Until now, Microsoft had not given any specific information on which ASP.NET applications were vulnerable to the padding oracle attack. Blocking specific server error messages is reported to be an effective workaround
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PacketFence NAC 1.9.1 released

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

The Inverse development team has announced the release of version 1.9.1 of PacketFence, the free and open source network access control (NAC) system
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Vulnerability exploited by Stuxnet discovered more than a year ago.

Friday, September 24th, 2010

The hole exploited by the Stuxnet worm, which was closed last patch day, was described in a freely circulated hacking magazine in April 2009
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CUDA support in OpenCV announced at GTC

Friday, September 24th, 2010

From the start of next year, the open source OpenCV library will be able to utilise the computing power of GPUs
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Ruby-in-Ruby Rubinius 1.1 released

Friday, September 24th, 2010

The first feature release for the LLVM powered Rubinius improves performance and adds support for dbm
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Red Hat boosts revenue

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

Premier Linux distributor Red Hat continues to show strong performance with an increase in revenue for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2011 of 20% over the same quarter last year
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CCC reveals security problems with German electronic IDs

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

The Chaos Computer Club says that attackers can easily use malicious software on a user’s PC to remotely control the eID function of German electronic identification cards. They also say that the optional signature function is unsafe.
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Mandriva: We’re not dead

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

In a blog post, Mandriva comments on the current situation after the founding of the Mageia fork and emphasises that Mandriva Linux is alive and well – and will remain so. The post also provides an outlook on the company’s future strategy
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