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Submission + - Linux kernel exploit aggressively rooting machines (seclists.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Running 64-bit Linux? Haven't updated yet? You're probably being rooted as I type this. CVE-2010-3081, this week's second high-profile local root exploit in the Linux kernel, is compromising machines left and right. Almost all 64-bit machines are affected, and "Ac1db1tch3z" (classy) published code to let any local user get a root shell. Ac1db1tch3z's exploit is more malicious than usual because it leaves a backdoor behind for itself to exploit later even if the hole is patched. Luckily, there's a tool you can run to see if you've already been exploited, courtesy of security company Ksplice, which beat most of the Linux vendors with a "rebootless" version of the patch.
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Submission + - Rush Limbaugh Falls for Wikipedia Hoax (nytimes.com)

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Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "The NY Times reports that Rush Limbaugh spent some time last week profiling Judge Vinson who had just announced he would allow a legal challenge to the new health care law to advance to a full hearing informing his listeners that the judge was an avid hunter and amateur taxidermist who once killed three brown bears and mounted their heads over his courtroom door to "instill the fear of God into the accused." Trouble is that the judge has never shot anything other than a water moccasin, is not a taxidermist and, as president of the American Camellia Society, is far more familiar with Camellia reticulata than with Ursus arctos. Someone identified only as "Pensacolian" edited Judge Vinson's Wikipedia entry to include the invented material even footnoting the entry to a supposed story in The Pensacola News Journal. As calls flooded in about Limbaugh's broadcast, Vinson, 70, took it all in stride. "I've never killed a bear," says Vinson, "and I'm not Davy Crockett ""

Comment Re:virus? (Score 1) 343

by Karunamon (#32815076) Attached to: US Pirate Movie Site DNS Seizure Fail
That's only if you're using some last-gen archaic browser that actually executes random code without letting you decide what gets executed. I mean, seriously, it's like walking down a dark alley, picking up random hypos, and jabbing them into your veins. Firefox + Noscript + Adblock
Data Storage

Submission + - 64% of Gamers Prefer Physical Media (thinq.co.uk) 2

Submitted by arcticstoat
arcticstoat writes: Despite the advent of online game stores on all three major consoles, most console gamers apparently still prefer to hoard collections of gaming discs than download games. A recent survey conducted by Ipsos in the UK revealed that 64 per cent of the 1,000 users polled would rather have games on physical discs, while only 25 per cent would prefer digital copies. In the survey, 55 per cent of those polled said price was the key factor in determining their interest in downloading games, while 27 per cent said the wanted games available online before they were in the shops.

Ipsos' director Ian Bramley explained that "Interest absolutely drops away when you get to the types of pricing that you might charge for a new physical disc. People's perceptions are that they're not prepared to pay as much for digital content — they make the connection that it's not a physical disc and therefore it should be cheaper." At the top of the list of concerns about digital downloads was the lack pf physical ownership, with 35 per cent of those polled saying they just preferred to own a physical disc. Meanwhile, 33 per cent said they were worried they'd lose their games and 20 per cent said they like to own a physical collection of games.
Iphone

Submission + - Apple press release regarding iPhone 4 reception (apple.com)

Submitted by Lisandro
Lisandro writes: Apple has just releases a letter addressing the signal issues a lot of users seem to be having with their iPhone 4. They claim to have discovered the cause for the drop in bars, which is "both simple and surprising" — a wrong formula used to calculate how many bars are displayed for a given signal strength.

Submission + - Pirate Party to Run Pirate Bay from Parliament (torrentfreak.com) 2

Submitted by rdnetto
rdnetto writes: After their former hosting provider received an injunction telling it to stop providing bandwidth to The Pirate Bay, the worlds most resilient BitTorrent site switched to a new ISP. That host, the Swedish Pirate Party, made a stand on principle. Now they aim to take things further by running the site from inside the Swedish Parliament.

The party has announced today that they intend to use part of the Swedish Constitution to further these goals, specifically Parliamentary Immunity from prosecution or lawsuit for things done as part of their political mandate. They intend to push the non-commercial sharing part of their manifesto, by running The Pirate Bay from ‘inside’ the Parliament, by Members of Parliament.

Comment Re:Did I miss the boat on this one? (Score 1) 604

by Karunamon (#32767044) Attached to: The Ignominious Fall of Dell
Oddly enough, a lot of the caps didn't start to fail until after the warranty/recall period was up. Which kinda SUCKS for me, seing as how my company has got a number of circa 2005 dell machines that are failing left and right. Lawsuits are seriously being considered. No, I am not making this up.
The Courts

Submission + - RIAA Outraged by YouTube-Viacom Decision 1

Submitted by adeelarshad82
adeelarshad82 writes: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) voiced its opposition to the recent decision in the YouTube-Viacom copyright infringement case, stating that "the district court's dangerously expansive reading of the liability immunity provisions of the [Digital Millennium Copyright Act] DMCA upsets the careful balance struck within the law and is bad public policy." Cary Sherman, RIAA president, also wrote in a blog post, "It will actually discourage service providers from taking steps to minimize the illegal exchange of copyrighted works on their sites."
Google

Submission + - Android 3.0 Rumored for Q4 2010 - Linux Magazine O (linuxpromagazine.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It hasn't even been a week since Android 2.2 (AKA Froyo) was released to the public and OEMs and here come rumors that its successor Android 3.0 (codename Gingerbread) is slated for an October release. And if further rumors are to be believed, Gingerbread is a behemoth. It requires a minimum processor speed of 1 GHz and at least 512MB of RAM, making it a natural fit for high-end smart phones and (drum roll) tablet PCs.

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