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Flash For Linux Vulnerability
Saturday, December 20th, 2008Another Adobe Flash vulnerability has been discovered in Versions 10.0.12.36, 9.0.151.0 and earlier, for Linux. According to the Adobe website, “… that could allow an attacker who successfully exploits this potential vulnerability to take control of the affected system. A specially formed SWF must be loaded in Flash Player for Linux by the user for […]
Nothing Is Guaranteed
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008This past weekend, one of the top web hosting firms, ThePlanet.com had an explosion and fire in a data centre, located in Texas. This affected thousands and thousands of websites as although apparently none of the servers in the facility were damaged, backup power to the facility was not allowed by the fire fighting […]
Reiser File System Future
Monday, May 12th, 2008The recent conviction of Hans Reiser for murder in California may be of concern to some who have implemented the Reiser file system (ReiserFS) on their Linux machines.
Reiser, who apparently continues to maintain his innocence, was convicted in a California court on April 28, 2008 of killing his wife. It’s been an interesting case […]