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Oracle Patch Bus Is Rolling: Multiple Enterprise Linux Patches Released

Oracle Patch Bus Is Rolling: Multiple Enterprise Linux Patches Released

By Marc Handelman on July 3rd, 2009

Oracle Corporation (NasdaqGS: ORCL) has announced the release of several patches to the software giant’s Enterprise Linux branded distribution. Ranging from relatively trivial user application updates to critical kernel level security patches, this is a great way to end the week, before a holiday weekend no less… We suggest a thorough examination of the list [...]

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ATM Security Researcher Censored

News, yesterday, of the latest censorship actions targeting BlackHat presenters. This time, Juniper Networks has muffled the presentation slated for the hack confab by Barnaby Jack, an employee of the networking concern. Not surprisingly, his presentation, focused on Automated Teller Machine vulnerabilities, was seen as a threat. A short snippet of the original news item [...]

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Google The New Borg?

Google User Tracking Now Confirmed…Is It Evil?
Google Inc. (NasdaqGS: GOOG) has announced the search giants’ tracking of individual web browsing habits (through the company’s DoubleClick cookie insertion) to facilitate AdSense pattern matching and delivery of targeting placements. As is to be expected, privacy advocates are enraged, and in response, the company is offering a Mozilla [...]

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Independence Day July 4, 2009

Infosecurity.US wishes all a safe, happy and fun Independence Day July 4th, 2009.
Visit the Charters of Freedom!

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Annual Repost - Remembering Alan Shepard, Jr., Rear Admiral USN [Retired]

Excerpted and edited from an original post I published last year on 2008/05/05:
Lest We Forget: On this date, in 1961, the late, great, Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (Rear Admiral, United States Navy, Retired), became our First Astronaut, after serving our country in the Pacific during World War II. Talk about a career…. Read his Official [...]

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In Tribute - Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Free French, Free Poles, Kingdom of Norway Armed Forces D-DAY 6 June 1944

Perhaps Remembering The Events Of Sixty-Four Years Ago, This Week , Will Permit A Modicum Of Recollection Of Why, In Truth, We Are Free.

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Genius: Luis von Ahn

Infosecurity.US continues our popular Genius Series with a focus on Luis von Ahn, Ph.D., MacArthur Foundation Fellowship award winner, and Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. A short bio from the MacArthur Foundation appears after the page jump, along with a video.

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A Clear® Failure …

News, of the demise of Verified Identity Pass, Inc. the highly touted owners of the Clear® Registered Traveler identity verification system, designed to permit relatively easy airport check ins, et cetera. The company apparently lost funding, not to mention thousands of user records in a publicized data breach event reported here on Infosecurity.US some time [...]

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Independence Day July 4, 2009

By Marc Handelman on July 3rd, 2009 | No Comments »

A charter of Freedom - The Declaration of Independence

Infosecurity.US wishes all a safe, happy and fun Independence Day July 4th, 2009.

Visit the Charters of Freedom!

Categories: Infosecurity, National Security, United States of America, United States of America National Holidays
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Dilbert: Marketing Redux

By Marc Handelman on July 3rd, 2009 | No Comments »

Dilbert.com

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Oracle Patch Bus Is Rolling: Multiple Enterprise Linux Patches Released

By Marc Handelman on July 3rd, 2009 | No Comments »

ORACLE AT MOSCONE

Oracle Corporation (NasdaqGS: ORCL) has announced the release of several patches to the software giant’s Enterprise Linux branded distribution. Ranging from relatively trivial user application updates to critical kernel level security patches, this is a great way to end the week, before a holiday weekend no less… We suggest a thorough examination of the list to determine your patching requirements and to align this patch set with your change management policy. Oracle Enterprise Linux is a variant of RED HAT, INC.’s (NYSE: RHT)  Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS. Additional information - including release notes and linkage - appears, after the jump

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Categories: Open Source, Open Source Security, Open Source Software Security, Operating System Security, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Oracle Linux, Oracle Security
Tags: Features, Linux kernel, Open Source Software Security, Oracle Corporation, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Oracle Security, Red Hat Enterprise Linux

XKCD: Qwertial Aphasia

By Marc Handelman on July 3rd, 2009 | No Comments »

XKCD: Qwertial Aphasia

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Dilbert: Marketing

By Marc Handelman on July 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »

Dilbert.com

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Mitnick Security Re-Direct Incident Reported

By Marc Handelman on July 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »

Kevin Mitnick

News, of another DNS compromise, web defacement and subsequent re-direct, of the primary site of  Mitnick Security. This is now the second reported DNS re-direct incident of the security consultant’s host provider hostedhere.net. Time to move, methinks. A short snippet, including linkage, appears after the jump.

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Categories: DNS, DNS Flaws
Tags: DNS Flaws, DNS hijacking, Kevin Mitnick

Dilbert: Beta

By comeex on July 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »

Dilbert.com

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SuSE Linux Critical Security Update: Acroread

By Marc Handelman on July 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »

SuSE Drache

Novell INC’s (NasdaqGS: NOVL) SuSE Linux unit has announced a mid-week security update focusing on the acroread PDF reader application.   Specifically, the implementation of acroread is vulnerable to security issues leading to remote code execution. More information, including the full text announcement, MITRE CVE enumerated vulnerability listings [specifically CVE-2009-0198, CVE-2009-0509, CVE-2009-0510, CVE-2009-0511, CVE-2009-0512, CVE-2009-1855, CVE-2009-1856, CVE-2009-1857, CVE-2009-1858, CVE-2009-1859, CVE-2009-1861], and download links appear after the page jump.

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Categories: Open Source, Open Source Security, Open Source Software Security, SUSE Linux
Tags: Acroread, Adobe, Adobe Acrobat, Code Cruft, Features, Remote Code Execution, SUSE Linux distributions, SUSE Linux Security

Dinosaur Comics: Past Technologies

By comeex on July 1st, 2009 | No Comments »

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VMWare Issues ESX, Kerberos, Security Advisory

By Marc Handelman on July 1st, 2009 | No Comments »

Virtualization

VMWare INC. (NYSE: VMW) has announced a security update targeting the virtualization company’s ESX  platform. The announcement, focused on MITRE CVE 2009-0846 - a resident vulnerability in VMware ESX 3.5.0, and specifically related to Kerberos on the console, appears after the jump, along with linkage.

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Categories: Infosecurity, Kerberos, Virtualization, Virtualization Security
Tags: Kerberos, Virtual Machine Security, Virtualization, VMWare

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