Robert Glen Fogarty

I can’t get the current iDefence vulnerabilities page - I suspect it is because there are far too many people trying to get that page served to them (to do my part I’ve stopped trying to get it…) This info is from the e-mail that was sent to the mailing list. Sorry about [...]

George Ou writes on ZDNet.com Blogs,
While news of Microsoft’s official patch for the WMF exploit reaches the web, I just received an email from H D Moore (founder of the metasploit project and creator of the original proof-of-concept WMF exploit code) that WINE was still vulnerable to the WMF exploit. He was kind enough [...]

Secunia Advisory: SA16907
Critical: Highly critical -
Impact: System access -
Where: From remote -
Solution Status: Vendor Patch -
Software: Opera 7.x, Opera 8.x

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system.

The vulnerability is caused due to the shell script used to launch Opera parsing shell commands that are [...]

Mark W. Kaelin writes on TechRepublic.com,
Recently, I wrote a series of article/downloads explaining some of the steps I personally take to secure and prepare a new Windows-based PC for the Internet and daily use….
But now to the heart of the matter; several of the posters gave the usual “why don’t you install Linux and life [...]

A vulnerability has been discovered in Thunderbird, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system.
The vulnerability is caused due to the shell script used to launch Thunderbird is parsing shell commands that are enclosed within backticks in the URL provided via the command line. This can e.g. be exploited to execute [...]

“Secunia Advisory: SA16846
Critical: Extremely critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched
Software: Mozilla 1.7.x
A vulnerability has been discovered in Mozilla Suite, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system.
For more information: SA16869
This vulnerability can only be exploited on Unix / Linux based environments.
The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 1.7.11. Other versions [...]

In response to Kelly Schwartz’s Linux Can Save Your Computer, Gnomie Tracy writes in with this question:

Knoppix is superb in the correct environment… only trouble is that many times the older systems I’m looking at do not meet the minimum requirements for the GUI in these Live CDs.
Wish someone would come up with one that [...]

Almost everybody who has hosted a Web site on a Linux
server has dealt with or at least heard of Cpanel.
Going through Cpanel’s official Web site does not
offer much help to the novice user, though. Many
people have to hunt and dig for information on how to
use Cpanel to its full potential.
Well, no more searching through random [...]

One of the largest distributed computing projects to ever grace the
net, Seti@Home has announced
that they will be moving to the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for
Network Computing, or BOINC, thus adding
to the current trend of moving to Open Source applications. The
distributed computing project, with over 5,000,000 active CPUs
analyzing data at any one time, will continue to use [...]

“So Microsoft slips easily back into a familiar pattern - if you can’t beat ‘em, buy ‘em out. It’s been one of their favorite M.O.s for most of their history. They keep going back to it because it works, so I guess you can’t argue with it. The result? One more ‘little guy’ gets squashed [...]