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Is it time to dump Adobe's Flash player?

Is it time to dump Adobe's Flash player?Yup it's time to do soI have disabled flash in both firefox and IE and only enable them when opening youtube. Unlike flash, Silverlight runs in a sand boxed environment. Remember Vista was hacked last year in that hacking contest? Vista was hacked...

Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, Is It Time, Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Flash, Novell AppArmor, Adobe Systems Inc., IS IT, IE8

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

Adobe 'zero-day' flaw is eight months old

Adobe 'zero-day' flaw is eight months oldLinux Users wrap your Acroread session in AppArmor[b]Linux Users wrap your Acroread session in AppArmor - 7/21/2009[/b]Sunday I posted a blog on how to wrap your Firefox session in AppArmor.If you follow the instructions given there for Firefox, you can perform the same task...

Tags: Linux, SECURITY, Adobe Systems Inc., Novell AppArmor, flaw

Discussion threads 2009-07-24

Mozilla, Google plug high-risk browser holes

Mozilla, Google plug high-risk browser holesReady before Tuesday, as I suspected.Downloaded and installed - no problems so far.there's another unpatched critical flaw in Firefox 3.5.1http://www.milw0rm.com/exploit.php?id=9158The Only Plugin You'll Ever Need: NoscriptGo get it here[b]This talkback brought to you by Mozilla Firefox 3.5[/b]The safest internet browser on the planet!Avoid Microsoft Internet...

Tags: Web browsers, NOW IT, noscript, Mozilla Firefox, Web browser, high-risk browser hole, browser hole, Mozilla Corp., Novell AppArmor, Microsoft Internet Explorer, plug-in, ActiveX, NoScript, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-17

Five 'must-secure' Web app vulnerabilities

Five 'must-secure' Web app vulnerabilitiesSensational!Please, it's 2009 and we are licking our wounds. We don't want or are we sucked in to this 1950's style journalism any longer. Truth: what a concept.How to secure no patch applications?How can I secure "CS Whois Lookup" when there is no patch available yet....

Tags: cloud computing, SECURITY, Web app vulnerability, Web application, vulnerability

Discussion threads 2009-04-29

Exploit code sends Mozilla scrambling to fix Firefox

Exploit code sends Mozilla scrambling to fix FirefoxNot intended to be flame-bait butWhere are the howls of outrage that we'd see if this were IE8? RE: Exploit code sends Mozilla scrambling to fix FirefoxYou don't get howls cause it gets fixed too quick! That my friend is the difference. The...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Corp., exploit code, Novell AppArmor, Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-03-26

Protocol handlers cause Mozilla Firefox 3 remote command execution vulnerabilities

Protocol handlers cause Mozilla Firefox 3 remote command execution vulnerabilitiesThe point is moot......[b]if[/b] you put your FF session in an AppArmor 'sandbox'--the below comes FREE as in beer in openSUSE /etc/apparmor/profiles/extras. Just go into YaST control center->AppArmor->Manually Add Profile and select both usr.lib.firefox.firefox-bin and *.firefox.sh and you are golden--a five-minute...

Tags: Web browsers, Novell AppArmor, Protocol Handler, execution vulnerability, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

Microsoft issues Safari-to-IE blended threat warning

Microsoft issues Safari-to-IE blended threat warningI don't get itWho in their right mind sets downloaded files as executable?666 may have theological problems but it's a great file permission setting for downloads.RE: Microsoft issues Safari-to-IE blended threat warningFirefox > all. God bless Firefox 3 - what a great gift!Same Situation, Different...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web browsers, exe, Safari-to-IE, threat warning, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-30

Linux security guru joins Microsoft

Crispin Cowan, the Linux security expert behind StackGard, the Immunix Linux distro and AppArmor, has joined the Windows security team. In a blog post last week, Microsoft's Michael Howard, author of Writing Secure Code, wrote: For those of you who don’t know Crispin, Crispin is responsible...

Tags: Team, Novell AppArmor, Microsoft Corp., Howard, Linux, Team Management, UNIX, Operating Systems, Security, Open Source, Software, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-21

HP laptops: Another zero-day vulnerability found

HP laptops: Another zero-day vulnerability foundWhile HP takes a hit, give your self some peace of mind...Windows XP users, take a walk on the wild side.Download a VMware Virtual Machine appliance edition of [url=http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1083]openSUSE 10.3 KDE[/url]. It's free and here are the benefits:o Resetable snapshot which reverts any changes...

Tags: Novell AppArmor, VMware Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows, openSUSE, Microsoft Windows XP, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2007-12-20

Surge of killer device drivers leave no OS safe

Surge of killer device drivers leave no OS safeThis gives the F/OSS community ammunitionYou'll notice the open source driver was the one that did not have a vulnerability. Of course you can say that the closed one was much more complex and thus would have been more susceptible anyway, but...

Tags: SECURITY, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, operating system, Microsoft Corp., Novell AppArmor, Mozilla Corp., Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-10-18

McAfee attacks open source

McAfee attacks open sourcenot much to sayi guess they are afraid of losing business.with vmware, nobody even needs to run that kind of software. i make an image of a clean boot, run it as a virtual machine.when i turn off the computer or reboot the vm is obliterated -...

Tags: Linux, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Novell AppArmor, OSS, McAfee Inc., open source, antivirus

Discussion threads 2006-04-19

Novell AppArmor1

This webcast, geared primarily for technical sales people, explains technically how AppArmor features achieve the customer's business objectives; explains AppArmor integration with other Novell products, e.g., SLES, OES, ZENworks Linux Management; identifies AppArmor competitors and detail AppArmor strengths by feature and function; performs the AppArmor demonstration through NODS; and outlines...

Tags: Novell Inc., Novell AppArmor, Sales Strategy, Sales

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Novell AppArmor

This webcast, geared primarily for sales people, discusses: how AppArmor meets critical security needs of enterprises deploying Linux Features and benefits of AppArmor; how to position AppArmor versus competitive solutions Pricing and licensing scenarios; and how to get more information on AppArmor.

Tags: Novell Inc., Novell AppArmor, Linux, Sales Strategy, Pricing, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Marketing

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Adobe Flash player update hassles

Adobe Flash player update hasslesReceived the update automatically... this morning, on my Ubuntu boxes, through the automatic central update function. :-)Important update indeed. High time that Adobe open-sources it's Flash Player: security flaws will be fixed much sooner then.64-bit Linux Adobe Flash 10.0.32 Update URLAdobe Flash player update hassles...

Tags: Word processors, 64-bit, SECURITY, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Flash, Adobe Flash Player

Discussion threads 2009-07-31

Time to give Adobe Reader the shove

Time to give Adobe Reader the shoveTime to give Adobe Reader the shoveI'm considering doing the same thing with Adobe Reader... not so much the bugs but the applications is a lot heavier than it needs to be for what it does. Already have VLC and 7-zip loaded, used...

Tags: Linux, SECURITY, OPEN SOURCE, Evince, VCL, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Acrobat Reader, Foxit Reader, shove

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

Surviving the recession with Free Enterprise OSes (Part 2)

In Part 1, I discussed the four Free Linux distributions that are best position to provide extended support and ample functionality to an end user through a protracted recession,  as well as having the characteristic "safeness" or "stability" factor in terms of being able to weather...

Tags: Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris 10, Red Hat Inc., Recession, Operating System, Novell OpenSuse, BSD, CentOS, Scientific Linux, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Interview with the Vista Pwn2Own contest winners

Interview with the Vista Pwn2Own contest winnersSo NO, we did not duplicate it on any other platform.What Nate states is this is a compiler issue with a polymorphism/name mangling bug. Therefore, it is not a Adobe coding issue. So my questions still remain:1) Have you duplicated this on...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), data execution prevention, Vista Pwn2Own, Nate, flaw, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-04-02

Linux security guru joins Microsoft

Linux security guru joins MicrosoftPaycheckWell, I am sure his paycheck will increase in size that is what it is all about correct...RE: Linux security guru joins MicrosoftIsn't this a good thing, in a way? I mean, it just gives more notoriety to the Linux crowd. Microsoft can't keep saying that...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX community, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Linux security guru, Microsoft Windows, Linux security, security

Discussion threads 2008-01-21

Firefox or IE? Strange answer to security question

Firefox or IE? Strange answer to security questionStatistics explanation[i]However, when client honeypots with these browsers surfed to a list of about 30,000 known exploit servers, [b]the URLs that resulted in a 0.5735% of successful compromises of Internet Explorer 6 SP2[/b] did not cause a single successful attack on Firefox 1.5.0...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, security, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, IE6 SP2, Service Pack 2, Web browser

Discussion threads 2007-08-27

Securing Firefox: How to avoid hacker attacks on Mozilla's browser

Securing Firefox: How to avoid hacker attacks on Mozilla's browserApparently it's by dropping the "H" from "HTTP"?At least that's how the link off the ZDNet news page is mis-written. ;)How to secure Firefox, IE and Safari to avoid hacker attacks...Download [url=http://www.opera.com]Opera 9.2[/url] and install it instead of [insert whatever...

Tags: Web browsers, Hacking, SECURITY, Mozilla Firefox, Web browser, hacker attack, Mozilla Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-07-09