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Submission + - Xbox 360 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 04, 2007 @11:07PM

An anonymous reader writes: SecurityFocus BugTraq has a post about an Xbox360 Hypervisor Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

From the article: We have discovered a vulnerability in the Xbox 360 hypervisor that allows privilege escalation into hypervisor mode. Together with a method to inject data into non-privileged memory areas, this vulnerability allows an attacker with physical access to an Xbox 360 to run arbitrary code such as alternative operating systems with full privileges and full hardware access.

I like the comment by the OP (from a sun.com email address)

Submission + - Microsoft Exchange, meet your replacement.

Submitted by

IGnatius T Foobar

on Friday March 02, 2007 @11:23AM

IGnatius T Foobar writes: "In this article, Linux Journal discovers the Citadel groupware server, and boldly declares that this is the one — though not as widely known as some other solutions, Citadel is the ideal open source replacement for Microsoft Exchange."

Submission + - Wikipedia banned as source by history department

Submitted by hrvatska on Saturday February 24, 2007 @12:52AM

hrvatska writes: An article in the New York Times reports on a ban by the history department at Middlebury College on citing Wikipedia in papers or exams. The ban came after a number of students used inaccurate information from the same article on an exam. The ban is being actively debated at the school, and does not apply to all departments. Jim Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, is quoted as saying "Basically, they are recommending exactly what we suggested — students shouldn't be citing encyclopedias. I would hope they wouldn't be citing Encyclopaedia Britannica, either." The article does not say whether or not the history department permits Encyclopaedia Britannica to be cited as a source.

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