Low: Red Hat Enhancement Advisory: Red Hat Virtualization Manager (ovirt-engine) 4.1.7

An update is now available for Red Hat Virtualization Manager. The Red Hat Virtualization Manager is a centralized management platform that allows system administrators to view and manage virtual machines. The Manager provides a comprehensive range of features including search capabilities,...

Android Lockscreen Patterns Less Secure Than PINs

An academic study set out to prove whether it’s better to protect your Android phone with a PIN or a swipe pattern. The answer is PIN. At least when it comes to proximity attacks, namely someone lurking about trying to guess your PIN or unlock pattern. The study PDF, published Friday by researche...

The list of Windows Updates is usually wrong in app/platform layers and published images/desktops

The Windows Update history is correct only in the layer where the updates were actually installed. So you can only rely on the displayed list of Windows Updates when you are editing the OS layer, because Windows Updates must always be installed in the OS Layer. Similarly, you can only rely on the...

Do’s and Don’ts of Capacity Estimation for Database Monitoring Tools

When deploying a database monitoring tool, one of the first things you need to do is to determine the size of your deployment. So, where do you start? In a previous blog post I described the various aspects that can have an impact on the capacity requirements needed for a database monitoring...

Microsoft Says Fireball Malware Threat 'Overblown'

Check Point has ramped down its projections on the impact of the recently disclosed Fireball malware after Microsoft called its initial numbers into question. Details on Fireball were published June 1 by Check Point, which said the malware was the work of a Chinese digital marketing agency called...

Nix-Auditor - Nix Audit Made Easier

A script to audit linux and unix distributions based mainly on the CIS standards and universal linux hardening guidelines. The value it brings to your auditing set of tools is: Speed - one can audit OS in less than 120 seconds and get report Accuracy - tested on CentOS and RedHat with 100% accura...

Detects Clickbait Headlines Using Deep Learning: Clickbait Detector

Detects Clickbait Headlines Using Deep Learning People continually fall for clickbait and as Wired in it’s article mentioned Whether you think clickbait is on the rise, obscurant and self-negating, not such a big deal, or the root of all evil, one thing is clear about it: It’s increasingly hard t...

Compass sensor applications are not as accurate as expected in Windows 8.1

Compass sensor applications are not as accurate as expected in Windows 8.1 Symptoms Certain compass sensor applications are not as accurate as expected on a computer that is running Windows 8.1. For example, there is a 90 degree offset for the directional values in the applications. Resolution...

Police Scan 117 Million Driving Licence Photos for Face Recognition Database

Your driver's license photo could be scarier than it actually looks — Well, here's why: With the help of state driver's license data, U.S. law enforcement agencies have created a huge a face-recognition database of more than 117 Million American adults that are regularly scanned in the course of...

On Python vulnerabilities mining those have to mention the thing-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Foreword Python because of its in the development of larger, more complex application aspects of the unique convenience, so that it in a computer environment becomes more and more indispensable. Although its obvious speech intelligibility and the use friendliness allows the software engineers a...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: chrony-2.1.1-2.fc22

A client/server for the Network Time Protocol, this program keeps your computer's clock accurate. It was specially designed to support systems with intermittent internet connections, but it also works well in permanently connected environments. It can use also hardware reference clocks, system...

openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2015-730)

Xen was updated to fix 6 security issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2014-0222: Validate L2 table size to avoid integer overflows bsc877642. - CVE-2015-4037: Insecure temporary file use in /net/slirp.c bsc932267. - CVE-2015-7835: Uncontrolled creation of large page mappings by PV...

SubBrute - Subdomain Bruteforcer

SubBrute is a community driven project with the goal of creating the fastest, and most accurate subdomain enumeration tool. Some of the magic behind SubBrute is that it uses open resolvers as a kind of proxy to circumvent DNS rate-limiting https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-088A. This desig...

China Develops Facial Recognition Payment System with Near-Perfect Accuracy

In an intent to move one step forward from others, China is planning to launch a facial recognition payment application with near-perfect accuracy that enables users to authorize their online transactions just by showing a picture of themselves. Chinese researchers from the Chongqing-based resear...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: chrony-1.29.1-1.fc19

A client/server for the Network Time Protocol, this program keeps your computer's clock accurate. It was specially designed to support systems with intermittent internet connections, but it also works well in permanently connected environments. It can use also hardware reference clocks, system...

iPhone can be used as spy phone to get desktop Keystrokes

iPhone can be used as spy phone to get desktop Keystrokes What if a hacker could log every key you typed on your PC by placing a cellphone nearby? US researchers have shown how this is possible using any smartphone available today. At a conference in Chicago on Thursday, a group of computer...

Ears Perk Interest As New Biometric Identifier

There’s more to ears than meets the eye, at least according to recently released report by UK researchers, which finds that ear shape may be a more reliable measure of individuality than the widely-used fingerprint. Ear shape is gaining new ground to become a credible biometric, according to the...

Facial Recognition Research Claims Near 100% Accuracy

Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, professor and chair in the UM Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has developed state-of-the-art systems capable of photographing an image of someone’s face and ear and comparing it against pre-stored images of the same person, with 95-100 percent accuracy...

OpenSSH/PAM 3.6.1p1 - 'gossh.sh' Remote Users Ident

!/bin/sh OpenSSH " exit 1 Verify the arguments. $ != 2 && usage Variables. USER="$1" HOST="$2" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Expect script functions =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Expect script for password. expasswd cat expasswd spawn $SSHCMD expect password: send '\r' interact EOF Expect script for erro...