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[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: bzip2-1.0.6-1.fc12
Bzip2 is a freely available, patent-free, high quality data compressor. Bzip2 compresses files to within 10 to 15 percent of the capabilities of the best techniques available. However, bzip2 has the added benefit of being approximately two times faster at compression and six times faster at...
Microsoft Targets Android with Patent Infringement Allegations
The mobile phone wars became more interesting late on Tuesday when Microsoft publicly claimed for the first time that Google's Android operating system infringes on its intellectual property. According to sources close to the company, Microsoft believes that Android infringes on its patented...
[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: bzip2-1.0.6-1.fc13
Bzip2 is a freely available, patent-free, high quality data compressor. Bzip2 compresses files to within 10 to 15 percent of the capabilities of the best techniques available. However, bzip2 has the added benefit of being approximately two times faster at compression and six times faster at...
Changes to DMCA Protect Jailbreaking, Some Security Research
A new change to the much-maligned Digital Millennium Copyright Act free users who jailbreak their iPhones and other mobile handsets from worries about prosecution under the provisions of the DMCA that prevented circumvention of protection technologies. A separate change announced Monday also give...
Google Seeks Patent on WiFi Snooping Tech
Google’s secret Wi-Fi snooping used in the StreetView-mapping legal cases was powered by new sniffing technology that the company wants to patent, court documents filed allege. Read the full article. Computerworld...
Fiber Optics 'Beacon' Secures Online Sharing
Computer scientists at the University of Hertfordshire have found a way to share information online securely for a fraction of the cost of existing systems. Researchers working in collaboration with the University of Aston, have been awarded a UK patent for a fibre optics system which uses a...
New MS Patent May Put Linux Security At Risk
Microsoft has been granted a patent on a privilige escalation system which appears to cover the functionality of PolicyKit, which is used for fine grain authorisation on Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE and other Linux systems. The patent claims in 7,617,530 appear to be for system software which, when a...
RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0444
The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2009:0444. The giflib packages contain a shared library of functions for loading and saving GIF image files. This library is API and ABI compatible with libungif, the library that supported uncompressed GIF image files while the Unisys...
[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: speex-1.2-0.4.beta2
Speex is a patent-free compression format designed especially for speech. It is specialized for voice communications at low bit-rates in the 2-45 kbps range. Possible applications include Voice over IP VoIP, Internet audio streaming, audio books, and archiving of speech data e.g. voice mail...
[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: bzip2-1.0.4-13.fc8
Bzip2 is a freely available, patent-free, high quality data compressor. Bzip2 compresses files to within 10 to 15 percent of the capabilities of the best techniques available. However, bzip2 has the added benefit of being approximately two times faster at compression and six times faster at...
[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: libvorbis-1.1.2-3.fc7
Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, non-proprietary, patent-and royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format for audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel. The libvorbis package contains runtime libraries for use in programs that support Ogg Voribs...
icq-xss.txt
Title: ICQ Cross Site Scripting Author: Simo Ben youssef aka 6mOHaCk Date: 10 January 2006 MorX Security Research Team http://www.morx.org Service: Web/Chat Vendor: ICQ.com Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting / Cookie-Theft / Relogin attacks Severity: Medium/High Tested on: Microsoft IE 6.0 and...
Linux news 25.09.00
Linux Kernel 2.2.18pre10 Вешел десятый пререлиз нового ядра Linux - Linux Kernel 2.2.18. Подробнее: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2000-38/1086.html Linux Kernel pre-patch 2.4.0 test9-pre6 Новый, шестой по счету, пререлиз девятого тестового ядра Linux Kernel 2.4.0. Подробнее:...
