Friday Squid Blogging: Bioluminescent Squid

There's a beautiful picture of a tiny squid in this New York Times article on bioluminescence -- and a dramatic one of a vampire squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Friday Squid Blogging: Prehistoric Dolphins that Ate Squid

Paleontologists have discovered a prehistoric toothless dolphin that fed by vacuuming up squid: There actually are modern odontocetes that don't really use their teeth either. Male beaked whales, for example, usually have one pair of teeth that is only used to fight for females, whose teeth stay...

Friday Squid Blogging: Brittle Star Catches a Squid

Watch a brittle star catch a squid, and then lose it to another brittle star. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Eyeballs

Details on how a squid's eye corrects for underwater distortion: Spherical lenses, like the squids', usually can't focus the incoming light to one point as it passes through the curved surface, which causes an unclear image. The only way to correct this is by bending each ray of light differently...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fake News

I never imagined that there would be fake news about squid. That website lets you write your own stories. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Squid 2.0 < 2.4 STABLE4 FTP Proxy URL Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Squid is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:squid-cache:squid"; if...

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Caught Off the Coast of Ireland

It's the second in two months. Video. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Friday Squid Blogging: Eyeball Collector Wants a Giant-Squid Eyeball

They're rare: The one Dubielzig really wants is an eye from a giant squid, which has the biggest eye of any living animal -- it's the size of a dinner plate. "But there are no intact specimens of giant squid eyes, only rotten specimens that have been beached," he says. As usual, you can also use...

Virtuozzo 7 : squid / squid-migration-script / squid-sysvinit (VZLSA-2017-0182)

An update for squid is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

Friday Squid Blogging: Why It's Hard to Track the Squid Population

Counting squid is not easy. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Friday Squid Blogging: Food Supplier Passes Squid Off as Octopus

According to a lawsuit main article behind paywall, "a Miami-based food vendor and its supplier have been misrepresenting their squid as octopus in an effort to boost profits." As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read m...

Friday Squid Blogging: Injured Giant Squid Video

A paddleboarder had a run-in with an injured giant squid. Video. Here's the real story. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Friday Squid Blogging: Sex Is Traumatic for the Female Dumpling Squid

The more they mate, the sooner they die. Academic paper paywall. News article. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Squid 3.5.x < 3.5.23 / 4.x < 4.0.17 Information Disclosure Vulnerability (SQUID-2016:10)

According to its banner, the version of Squid running on the remote host is 3.x prior to 3.5.23, or 4.x prior to 4.0.17. It is, therefore, affected by an information disclosure vulnerability in the collapsed forwarding feature due to the incorrect comparison of request headers. An unauthenticated...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid as Prey

There's lots of video of squid as undersea predators. This is one of the few instances of squid as prey from a deep submersible in the Pacific: "We saw brittle stars capturing a squid from the water column while it was swimming. I didn't know that was possible. And then there was a tussle among t...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid and Chips

The excellent Montreal chef Marc-Olivier Frappier, of Joe Beef fame, has created a squid and chips dish for Brit & Chips restaurant. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Caught Off the Coast of Ireland

It's rare: Fishermen caught a 19-foot-long giant squid off the coast of Ireland on Monday, only the fifth to be seen there since 1673. Also the first in 22 years. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Communications

In the oval squid Sepioteuthis lessoniana, males use body patterns to communicate with both females and other males: To gain insight into the visual communication associated with each behavior in terms of the body patterning's key components, the co-expression frequencies of two or more component...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : squid (EulerOS-SA-2017-1018)

According to the version of the squid packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - It was found that squid did not properly remove connection specific headers when answering conditional requests using a cached request. A remote...

EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : squid (EulerOS-SA-2016-1025)

According to the versions of the squid package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Squid cachemgr.cgi utility processed remotely relayed Squid input. When the CGI interface utility ...