Microsoft Submits Tracking Protection Proposal to W3C

Microsoft has submitted its proposal for web tracking protection to the W3C for consideration as a standard, hoping to get the organization’s stamp of approval for its browser privacy technology. The proposal is in the earliest stages of the process and has not been approved, a process that can...

Cybersecurity bill tries to standardize software security

From Educated Guesswork Eric Rescorla The received wisdom in the security industry is that trying to qualitatively assess the security of a given piece of software is an incredibly difficult task. Some of the sharpest minds in software security–Gary McGraw, Brian Chess and Michael Howard among...

GLSA-200812-03 : IPsec-Tools: racoon Denial of Service

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200812-03 IPsec-Tools: racoon Denial of Service Two Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been reported in racoon: The vendor reported a memory leak in racoon/proposal.c that can be triggered via invalid proposals CVE-2008-3651...

ipsec-tools: racoon memory leak caused by invalid proposals

Memory leak in racoon/proposal.c in the racoon daemon in ipsec-tools before 0.7.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service memory consumption via invalid proposals...

Seperate label permissions from edit issue permission

In 3.11 the labels plugin changed so that manipulating labels required the "Edit Issue" permission. This drastically impacted our organizations workflow, as we'd just introduced labels in our previous upgrade, and we don't give "edit issues" to all users, but we do want all authenticated users to...

Linux news 14.07.00

Linux Kernel pre-patch 2.4.0 test4-pre6 Вышел очередной, шестой по счету, пререлиз четвертого тестового ядра Linux Kernel 2.4.0. Подробнее: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/linux/kernel/testing Домен .GNU По сообщению http://Wired.com, Free Software Foundation послали предложение в ICANN на регистрацию...