Posts Tagged ‘source’
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
Following the release of 3.4.0 last week, the
Apache Software Foundation has now detailed the
security fixes in the new version of the open
source productivity suite and said that it has already been downloaded more than one million times
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Friday, May 4th, 2012
Microsoft confirmed that, as speculated months ago, the RDP PoC exploit was sourced from China. It was apparent that the exploit originated in the West as researchers noticed that certain readable tex...
Tags: China, RDP, source
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Friday, May 4th, 2012
Microsoft identified a Chinese security partner as the
source of a leak last March in its highly restricted vulnerability information-sharing program.
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
There are scores of different logic analysers, but they all come with custom
software. The new open
source Sigrok
framework could manage to reconcile them
Tags: framework, software, source
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
The Citadel malware - a banking Trojan that is based on Zeus Trojan's source code and whose creators have adopted a Software-as-a-Service approach when it comes to the modifications of the crimeware k...
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Monday, April 30th, 2012
According to its developers, version 5.5.23 of the open
source database includes performance
improvements and a "significantly more efficient" thread pool feature. The new stable release also closes a serious
security hole
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Monday, April 30th, 2012
In the last seven days: Kubuntu got a new sponsor, a new ChromeOS's desktop was previewed, smart electricity meters were
hacked and
GIMP 2.8 RC1 was released. Also, open
source and evil genius, what code can teach us and Linaro's ARM Linux unification efforts
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Monday, April 30th, 2012
A test script included with the
source code for a recent
MySQL update revealed the nature of the flaw and provided a
proof of concept for the
denial of service bug, despite Oracle not revealing any details of the security fix
Tags: denial of service, MySQL, proof, source
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Friday, April 27th, 2012
The updated versions of the open
source scripting language correct more than 60 bugs, including some related to
security. The
PHP developers "strongly encourage"
users to upgrade
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Thursday, April 26th, 2012
A hacker has published several VMware
source code files and
email documents. The company says that this does "not necessarily" mean that there is any increased risk, as VMware proactively
shares its
source code with its partners
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