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Microsoft sews up Hotmail hole
News Details of the hole, which could have allowed any user the ability to read another user's email, were originally publicised by hacker and security site Root-Core four days ago. An automated scanning tool, such as the one Root-Core posted on its...
[August 22, 2001, 8:25]
Microsoft under pressure for latest Hotmail hole
News Information about the vulnerability was published on Saturday night by a group of computer security experts named Root Core. Root Core posted a scanning device on its site to automate the process of finding message IDs, but Microsoft is adamant...
[August 21, 2001, 13:07]
Linux serves up triple threat
News In the grand scheme of things, if an attacker is able to get access to your box, then they could probably get root [control] on your box, anyway," he said. The root user is the standard Linux and Unix name for the person who has complete control of...
[February 20, 2004, 8:05]
Mandrake Drak tools made easy
News You'll see other code in interactive.pm that checks to see whether the app requires root user privileges and if so, asks for the root password. Line 1: This is a standard Perl script header.Line 3: We tell Perl to add /usr/lib/libDrakx to the...
[October 17, 2002, 11:49]
Microsoft's Machiavellian manoeuvring
Talkback Bruce Schneier writes of the "Trusted Computing Group and their "Trusted Platform Module": "The basic idea is that you build a computer from the ground up securely, with a core hardware 'root of trust' called a 'Trusted Platform Module'.
[September 1, 2005, 16:58]
Xtoolchain
Downloads Features: gcc [2.95.3] cross compiler for ARM-Linux as used on Sharp Zaurus supporting C, C++, Objective-C binutils [2.13.1] glibc [2.2.2] including libobjc Linux kernel headers [2.4.6] Complete binary distribution User mode installation (i.e...
[March 24, 2007, 7:00]
EMC offers tool for managing virtual systems
News A core feature is root-cause analysis, which works on VMware ESX server hosts, virtual machines and applications, EMC said. Root-cause analysis is a tool that can examine a physical or virtual server to try to establish why it has had a problem or...
[March 11, 2009, 16:17]
Three flaws discovered in Mac OS X
News In the event a system is running with core files enabled, attackers with interactive shell access can overwrite arbitrary files, and read core files created by root owned processes. US-based security-research company @Stake has warned of newly...
[October 29, 2003, 8:30]
DB2 flaw leaves database defenceless
News Engineers at the security company said the vulnerability, which could allow a person to get "root" privileges to a DB2 database, is simple to exploit. The flaw was uncovered by Boston security company Core Security Technologies, which alerted IBM.
[September 18, 2003, 8:55]
Debian attacker may have used new exploit
News I believe that there was an as-yet-unknown local root exploit used to go from having local unprivileged access to having root," Troup wrote in an email to a Debian mailing list on Friday. There is [I believe] an unknown local root exploit in the wild.
[November 28, 2003, 14:05]
International domain names succeed in testing
News The test was designed to establish whether the use of encoded internationalised characters would "have any impact on the operations of the root name servers providing delegations, or the iterative mode resolvers".
[March 9, 2007, 16:47]
VeriSign: Major Internet security update by 2011
News Kane said that the stumbling blocks for signing the DNSSEC root had been "mainly technical". Kane said that VeriSign will create and manage the zone-signing key (ZSK) for the root zone, and sign the root zone, for .net and .com.
[November 16, 2009, 4:00]
Mac OS X exploit code released
News An ill-intended person with at least some skill could modify it to spawn a root shell. Dai Zovi agreed, a knowledgeable user can easily replace or modify the exploit payload to run a full-access root shell, he said.
[October 3, 2006, 9:40]
Windows VPN software allows attacks
News In some cases, when a program is invoked, the operating system looks first in the system root directory (typically C:\), which is by default open to all users. There is no patch for this bug, but Microsoft recommends that system administrators...
[October 31, 2002, 14:18]
The application is becoming more fragile
Blog While system architects and testing might be interested in SQL statements and message calls, business managers might simply want to know which search criteria are scoring the most hits on the company web site.dynaTrace is aiming to nestle itself...
[July 27, 2009, 8:51]
Smarts absorbs rivals' management data
News Its proactive approach to problem management using root cause analysis, its out-of-the box deployment, and its future proofing all appealed to me. For them it is a core competency. At the enterprise it is also a core competency but it is not seen...
[February 1, 2002, 17:42]
Intel inside?
News TipTo make installing and using the Bootable version of the Processor Frequency ID utility easier, I suggest that, when you're prompted to select a location to save the file, you create a folder in the root directory called CPUID and download the...
[January 21, 2003, 15:12]
Red Hat readies Enterprise Linux 4
Talkback > SELinux cannot provide any protection against flawed software that is running as a root user, according to information on Red Hat's Web site.should probably be: RHEL4's default SELinux policy provides complete protection for network-facing...
[January 18, 2005, 20:14]
Europe calls on US to let go of Icann
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), which is based in California, is responsible for running core internet functions such as the assignment of address space, and the management of top-level domains and the root zone file.
[June 19, 2009, 12:25]
Gates takes a side-swipe at Apple, Linux security
Talkback Until Microsoft follows the same pattern of Linux or OS X and keeps root access protected the free world is highly vulnerable. The fact remains that Windows code is crappy code that opens up the core system to serious attacks.
[January 28, 2004, 13:29]
