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IBM expands Linux marketing push
News IBM has been backing a Linux push on all four of its server lines, though the company has been making the most noise on its xSeries Intel server line, where Linux first took root within Big Blue, and its powerful zSeries mainframe line.
[July 25, 2001, 9:58]
Net worm hobbles Linux servers
News When the Ramen worm gains access, it installs a so-called root kit that patches the security holes and installs special programs that replace common system functions and replace the main page on Web servers with an HTML file claiming: "RameN Crew...
[January 18, 2001, 7:55]
SSH opens computers to attack
News The attacks would execute at the security level at which the SSH process is running, which is normally a highly privileged level -- System on Windows, and root on Unix systems. Vulnerabilities have been found in multiple SSH implementations that...
[December 18, 2002, 15:47]
War of the Worlds Web site hacked
News The defacer, nicknamed un-root, hacked the Linux system through a vulnerability in an Apache Web server. Hart added that poorly patched servers were often the cause of many defacements. A Brazilian hacker has defaced the Web site of Steven...
[February 14, 2005, 14:10]
Porn Trojan may mark new era for Mac security
News The Trojan horse also installs a root crontab which checks every minute to ensure that its DNS server is still active. The added DNS servers are dimmed in Leopard's GUI, reports Intego. A new piece of malware, specifically designed to exploit Apple...
[November 1, 2007, 7:45]
Recover from a crashed WINS server
News Before proceeding with a repair operation, you need to check that the root of your problem doesn't lie with insufficient disk space. WINS is a vital component of Windows NT servers in large network environments.
[May 7, 2003, 8:59]
Ubuntu update hit by six-week delay
News But work remains: On Sunday, a major security risk in Breezy Badger was discovered and patched: An installation log stored the administrator's root password in a plain text file readable by anyone on the system.
[March 14, 2006, 9:05]
SSH glitch gives 'skeleton key' to networks
News There are rumours going around that you need to allow remote root SSH login for the exploit to work," he said. A critical security flaw in SSH has been revealed that threatens servers worldwide. SSH is a widely used encrypted remote management...
[September 18, 2003, 11:10]
Hacker cracks Apple downloads
News According to hacker Russell Harding, who claims to have discovered the exploit, the Mac OS X SoftwareUpdate feature downloads these updates over the HTTP protocol with no authentication, and installs them as root on the system.
[July 8, 2002, 16:27]
Adobe fixes flaws in Flash Player, ColdFusion
News Others aim to stop potential DNS rebinding attacks, HTML injection "issues" and non-root domain policy bypasses. Although the flaw is not remotely exploitable, the company has warned that it is "particularly applicable to ColdFusion servers in a...
[November 7, 2008, 11:19]
Microsoft OneCare gets a bashing
Talkback For the regular updates, there isn't a lot between the two, they both have automatic downloads, Linux requires root access, so only the administrator has the right to download and install the updates - which can be automated centrally.
[May 14, 2005, 10:54]
Tripwire unveils virtualisation-management tool
News This is the first time it's been possible to do this kind of root-cause analysis and troubleshooting in a virtualised environment, although there are probably similar tools in the high-end suites from Tivoli and HP, if you know where to look...
[June 9, 2009, 17:27]
Does the media cause hacking? (part 2)
News I'd rather have root [complete access] to someone's account. Though a patch is available, and L0pht says it informed the Army of the weakness in its security, the Army failed to update all its servers.
[July 6, 1999, 8:47]
Browser benchmarks: IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari review
Reviews Ajax has even taken root in the business environment: for example, 24SevenOffice is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution that runs in a web browser.
[May 23, 2008, 16:40]
Putting the fun back into hacking
News They didn't get root, but they did manage to DoS us," said Crispin Cowan, head of the Weiss Labs' team. Each group has to maintain its own server while attempting to crash or take control of other teams' servers.
[August 6, 2002, 8:12]
File-trading pressure mounts on ISPs
News Record companies have joined the movie industry in trying to root out post-Napster file trading, putting new pressure on ISPs to clamp down on subscribers' actions. Traditionally, movies, songs and software have been posted on the ISP's servers in...
[July 26, 2001, 11:19]
Intel: rootkits have met their match
News One of the limitations of security software running on the CPU is that as soon as an attacker gains root-level privileges, such as via rootkit, then that level of privilege gives them the ability to compromise any software running on that system.
[December 14, 2005, 16:10]
Google fixes, apologises for Gmail outage
News Our engineers are still investigating the root cause of the problem. However, Google has argued that its service availability competes with most organisations' ability to run their own email servers. Business and personal users of Gmail suffered a...
[February 24, 2009, 15:58]
How to tweak Linux network files
News To find out what module a specific NIC is using, log on as root and run the /sbin/lsmod command. In the above entry, the domain is nater.org, and the primary and secondary DNS servers are listed. Although a number of powerful graphic configuration...
[January 7, 2003, 8:56]
Microsoft gears up for another antitrust battle
News That same monopoly has been at the root of lawsuits by the federal government, many of the states, the European Union and several private companies, including Sun Microsystems, Be, and Time Warner's Netscape subsidiary.
[December 19, 2003, 12:55]
