Archive for the ‘General’ Category

OpenSSL vulnerabilities in ASN.1 parsing

Wednesday, October 1st, 2003

Four new OpenSSL security vulnerabilities have been reported. According to OpenSSL website these are the vulnerabilities…

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OpenSSH Security Advisory (from openssh.org)

Tuesday, September 16th, 2003

All versions of OpenSSH’s sshd prior to 3.7 contain a buffer management error. It is uncertain whether this error is potentially exploitable, however, we prefer to see bugs fixed proactively.

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Verisign resolving everything

Tuesday, September 16th, 2003

As you know, when somebody ask for a nonexistent domain name like www.dfadfafasdfas.com, obtains a message telling that the domain does not exist.

Well, from now and thanks to our friends of Verisign, you’ll be directed to one of their advertising sites. And thanks again to this people fight against spam, network troubleshooting, etc will be more difficult…

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Let’s stop software patents in Europe

Tuesday, August 26th, 2003

On September 1st the European parliament will vote on a directive that legalizes software patents in Europe. If this directive comes through we will be stuck with software patents in the foreseeable future. The FFII (The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure) is organizing a conference in Brussels on August 27 as a last minute protest to raise the attention of yet undecided members of the parliament and asks webmasters to close their websites on August 27th.

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