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Submission + - Fedora 14 "Laughlin" Released - Review (linuxroad.net)

Submitted by iqrash
iqrash writes: The availability of first alpha release of Fedora 14 "Laughin" has been announced by Dennis Gilmore (see the release announcement). The final release of much awaited Fedora 14 is due in September this year, and this is the first chance for the users to see how the upcoming release of Fedora will be like. The main goal of an alpha release is to find and fix bugs, the alpha version is designed in such a way as to help the Fedora team to identify bugs....
Security

Submission + - Google bans Android spy app, developer cries foul (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Paul-Threatpost
Paul-Threatpost writes: Malware may be difficult to define but, as former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously quipped about pornography, "you know it when you see it." At least that's the position being taken by Google and anti malware firms about two applications designed for mobile phones running Google's Android operating system. Now the developer is crying foul.
IT

Submission + - Searching for Backdoors from Rogue IT Staff (serverfault.com)

Submitted by WHiTe VaMPiRe
WHiTe VaMPiRe writes: When IT staff are terminated under duress, there is often justification for a complete infrastructure audit to reduce future risk to a company. sysadmin1138 recently answered a question on Server Fault that provides a through exploration of the steps necessary to maintain security. Read more at How do you search for back doors from previous IT?

Comment Re:how can we trust (Score 1) 158

by valeo.de (#33310564) Attached to: 40 Windows Apps Said To Contain Critical Bug

Probably because this particular security researcher wants to make a name for themselves. ;)

Peronally I prefer full-disclosure (or worst case, so-called "responsible" disclosure) and don't see the value in these kind of pre-announcements, especially when the attack vector is known as is the case here. All it does is send an even clearer signal to enterprising crackers that they should be looking at popular applications to see if they are vulnerable to this exploit, which doesn't exactly help security.

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