Amazon Web Service Down, No Timeline for Remedy

Amazon Web Service’s AWS Elastic Compute Cloud EC2, based in Northern Virginia, went offline early this morning, taking with it a number of popular sites including, news aggregator Reddit and question and answer site and TechCrunch darling, Quora.The Web hosting firm’s Relational Database Service...

Amazon Cloud Can Be Used to Hack Into Networks !

A Germany-based security researcher says he can hack into protected networks using software that runs on Amazon's cloud-based computers, according to a Reuters report. Thomas Roth, a computer security consultant based in Cologne, Germany, says he has "figured out a quick and inexpensive way to...

Fedora 14 Introduces libjpegturbo for Faster Image Processing

Fedora 14, known as "Laughlin," officially launched on Tuesday, offering numerous new features aimed at enhancing the user experience for this open-source desktop operating system. Usability Focus In recent releases, Fedora, sponsored by Red Hat, has concentrated on improving usability. According...

Directory traversal

Directory traversal vulnerability in awstmxn.exe in the Admin Agent service in the server in EMC Documentum ApplicationXtender Workflow, possibly 5.40 SP1 and earlier, allows remote attackers to upload arbitrary files, and execute arbitrary code, via directory traversal sequences in requests to T...

[SA12732] AWS MySQLguest Script Insertion Vulnerability

TITLE: AWS MySQLguest Script Insertion Vulnerability SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA12732 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/12732/ CRITICAL: Moderately critical IMPACT: Cross Site Scripting WHERE: From remote SOFTWARE: MySQLguest http://secunia.com/product/4008/ DESCRIPTION: BliZZard has...