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Gap Widens Between Attackers, BIOS Forensics, Research
Vendors have made important strides in locking down operating systems, patching memory-related vulnerabilities and other bugs that could lead to remote code execution or give hackers a stealthy presence on a machine. As the hurdles get higher for the bad guys, the better ones will certainly look...
UK government planning to ditch Microsoft for Open Source alternatives
Downfall in the monopoly of propriety software like Microsoft and Apple accelerated after the Snowden revelations of NSA spying, where technology giants like Microsoft, Google, Apple are sharing a bed with the NSA. The UK government is again planning to ditch Microsoft for Open Source and Free...
[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: boost-1.50.0-5.fc18
Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. The emphasis is on libraries which work well with the C++ Standard Library, in the hopes of establishing "existing practice" for extensions and providing reference implementations so that the Boost libraries are suitable for eventua...
[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: boost-1.47.0-7.fc16
Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. The emphasis is on libraries which work well with the C++ Standard Library, in the hopes of establishing "existing practice" for extensions and providing reference implementations so that the Boost libraries are suitable for eventua...
[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: boost-1.48.0-13.fc17
Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. The emphasis is on libraries which work well with the C++ Standard Library, in the hopes of establishing "existing practice" for extensions and providing reference implementations so that the Boost libraries are suitable for eventua...
Microsoft Adopts CVRF Format for Security Bulletins
Since the beginning of recorded time, security researchers, software vendors and hackers have been issuing security advisories in all kinds of nutty formats. Some feature excellent ASCII art, some have clever inside jokes and some come from Microsoft. Now, there’s a effort underway, called the...
Debian DSA-2197-1 : quagga - denial of service
It has been discovered that the Quagga routing daemon contains two denial-of-service vulnerabilities in its BGP implementation : - CVE-2010-1674 A crafted Extended Communities attribute triggers a NULL pointer dereference which causes the BGP daemon to crash. The crafted attributes are not...
AV Researcher Calls for Standard Threat Level Displays
GENEVA — A veteran security researcher today challenged the anti-malware industry to work on a standard way of assigning computer/Internet threat levels to present transparent helpful information to consumers and businesses. During a presentation at the Virus Bulletin 2009 conference here, Fortin...
[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: boost-1.33.1-15.fc7
Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. The emphasis is on libraries which work well with the C++ Standard Library, in the hopes of establishing "existing practice" for extensions and providing reference implementations so that the Boost libraries are suitable for eventua...