Shared by stsimb Automation of actions like this are risky. But we can’t keep going like this because these spam campaigns are happening in the middle of the night. Three hours later they are done. Our reaction time needs to be quicker and human response just isn’t fast enough. It hasn’t been a great week this week (March 1-5) for some of our customers who u […]
There are a number of sources talking about the takedown of the Mariposa botnet, here are a few of the good ones: The Associated Press details the story and talks about the technical aspects of the takedown. Boing Boing only has an excerpt. Nothing too detailed. Panda Labs, who assisted in the disruption, has their own blog about their participation and the […]
Shared by stsimb Hotmail hosts well over 1.3 billion inboxes! The official engineering blog for Hotmail, Messenger, and Windows Live, hosted by The Windows Blog
Shared by stsimb DNSCurve's backers seem committed to derailing DNSSEC's progress in favor of DNSCurve. If they succeed, the Internet will be the worse off for it. DNSSEC vs. DNSCurve
How to use a Socks Proxy with putty ? You are working on a network that doesnt allow http traffic. that’s a bummer! Can you ssh to a server ? If you can, then everything is fine. You can use a socks proxy for browsing. Just read this
Shared by stsimb For Greek "email marketers": being CAN SPAM compliant does not make you legal in Greece! Having a REAL opt-in list is makes you legal http://www.dpa.gr/portal/page?_pageid=33,20920&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL#6 Last week there was an article published by btobonline promoting the services of a company called Netprospex. Netpr […]
Shared by stsimb Alternative DNS Servers Introduction Unbound is a “validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver”. It is developed by NLnet Labs — the same foundation that maintains NSD. I have noticed Unbound receiving more and more attention lately and I can understand why — it is a simple, stable, and robust Caching DNS Server. The following tutorial w […]
At last, Linus has released the 2.6.33 kernel. "The most noticeable features in 2.6.33 are likely the Nouveau and DRBD integration (and a _lot_ more people will notice the Nouveau part of that). And the Radeon KMS parts aren't considered experimental any more. Oh, and the AS IO scheduler is gone, since keeping it around and just causing confusion s […]
The H reports that the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has elected Simon Phipps, formerly Sun's Chief Open Source Officer, to the board of directors. "As a director, Phipps hopes to help the organisation change so that it becomes more member-oriented, more active in promoting open source in education, in policy development and possibly in organisation […]
This year's Embedded Linux Conference, which will be held in San Francisco April 12-14, has announced that its program is now available. The keynote speakers will be Greg Kroah-Hartman ("Android: a Case Study of an Embedded Linux Project") and Matt Asay ("Embedded in 2010: an End to the Entropy?") along with a whole slate of over 50 […]
Dave Phillips looks at arpeggiators for Linux. "An arpeggio is a musical technique whereby the notes of a chord are played in succession rather than all at once. The order of the chord notes in this succession may follow a strict set of rules or they may be played in purely random sequence. A device that acts upon a chord in this manner is known as an a […]
Debian has updated kvm (multiple vulnerabilities), dpkg (path traversal), and kernel (privilege escalation, denial of service). Fedora has updated F12: samba (multiple vulnerabilities). Mandriva has updated virtualbox (unspecified vulnerability) and squid (denial of service). Slackware has updated pidgin (multiple vulnerabilities). Ubuntu has updated apache […]
Over at CNET, Stephen Shankland has a fairly lengthy interview with Canonical's new CEO Jane Silber. "But is there more urgency about profit now? Silber: There is a sense of great opportunity right now. When we started Ubuntu in year one, we didn't put a strong push on trying to sell Canonical services, not because we were not interested, but […]
The SCO case has long since dropped off the radar for most. It is worth noting, though, that the Novell "slander of title" trial is now underway in Utah. Groklaw has detailed coverage of the testimony thus far. "Why did Novell slander SCO's title? Because of Linux. Linux started as a hobbyist tool. It's open source; 'nobody can […]
The Mozilla Foundation has launched a process to update the Mozilla Public License. The project is described this way: We've been using version 1.1 of the Mozilla Public License for about a decade now. Its spirit has served us well, helping to communicate some of the values that underpin our large and growing community. However, some of its wording may […]
Jonathan Schwartz writes about patent attacks, and Apple's attack on Android in particular. "Having watched this movie play out many times, suing a competitor typically makes them more relevant, not less. Developers I know arent getting less interested in Googles Android platform, theyre getting more interested - Apples actions are enhancing th […]
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