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Computerworld Breaking News reports Aussie firm finds hole in Skype client install. “Australian security firm Security-Assessment.com Ltd. has discovered a flaw in the install of the Windows-based Skype Ltd. client.”
Skype has issued an update they claim patches the problem. Get patching!
Ed Leafe posts: “Some of you have seen the Dabo AppWizard before, but for those who haven’t, here’s a screencast that shows what you can do…”
SANS Internet Storm Center posts Symantec Patch Posted, (Sat, May 27th). “Symantec has just posted patches for the Security Advisory SYM06-010.” Note that these patches seem to be for the Corporate Edition of Symantec’s anti-virus tool. Get patching!
Indeed, had some tyrannical god contrived to enslave our minds to time, to make it all but impossible for us to escape subjection to sodden routines and unpleasant surprises, he could hardly have done better than handing down our present system.
— Robert Grudin, Time and the Art of Living.
cited, in turn, in the GNU [...]
My first attempt at importing blog postings from Radio Userland to WordPress resulted in over seventy categories. Every post with a different combination of categories like “MySQL; LAMP; Technology; Security” created a new category with that exact name, rather than a one-to-many post-to-categories representation. WordPress supports this, as does Radio. The communication breakdown occured between [...]
Over at Ars Technica, Nate Anderson asks “Global software piracy losses: US$3- or $34-billion?” The BSA doesn't make their case any better by making outrageous claims. Software piracy is an issue, but it is not a world-shaking crisis. 87% of the people with a pirated version of PhotoShop have no idea what to do with [...]
LinuxWatch notes U.S. PTO smashes JPEG patent. The US PTO is far too eager to grant patents for bogus, vague, overly-broad “inventions.” We need to seriously reconsider whether most computer algorithms, file formats, business processes or genes qualify for patent status – a complete monopoly on the use of a design. The idea of a [...]
Computerworld Breaking News notes PostgreSQL fix could break applications. “PostgreSQL users have been put in a potentially sticky situation by a security flaw made public this week. The hole allows for SQL injection attacks, and affects all unpatched versions of PostgreSQL. The fix breaks many users' applications.” Ouch. A cure worse than the disease?
Slashdot postAT&T Accidentally Leaks NSA Suit Information. op12 writes “CNET has an article describing how AT&T accidentally leaked sensitive information involving the NSA lawsuit. From the article: 'AT&T's attorneys this week filed a 25-page legal brief striped with thick black lines that were intended to obscure portions of three pages and render them unreadable. But [...]
GROKLAW quoting a source at Stanford Law, reports: “The Court also held that the website editors were journalists entitled to claim California’s Journalist Shield…” Yes! Freedom of the Press belongs to WordPress, too!
