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Submission + - Mac, BSD prone to decade old attacks 7

Submitted by BSDer
BSDer writes: An Israeli security researcher published a paper few hours ago, detailing attacks against Mac, OpenBSD and other BSD-style operating systems. The attacks, says Amit Klein from Trusteer enable DNS cache poisoning, IP level traffic analysis, host detection, O/S fingerprinting and in some cases even TCP blind data injection. The irony is that OpenBSD boasted their protection mechanism against those exact attacks when a similar attack against the BIND DNS server was disclosed by the same researcher mid 2007. It seems now that OpenBSD may need to revisit their code and their statements. According to the researcher, another affected party, Apple, refused to commit to any fix timelines. It would be interesting to see their reaction now that this paper is public.
Censorship

Submission + - Comcast to face BitTorrent Filtering Lawsuits

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It's been widely reported that Comcast is engaged in a sneaky form of Internet filtering. The company is terminating its customers' BitTorrent sessions by sending misleading data onto the network. The end result is that instead of targeting key heavy users, Comcast is instead engaged in an all out war against P2P protocols. In an interview with CNET, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Fred von Lohmann states that Comcast is "throwing a spanner in the works of the Internet, hoping that this will somehow reduce bandwidth usage overall." Other lawyers seem to have smelled blood, and are circling in the water. Lohmann reveals that "[The EFF has] already been contacted by attorneys who are considering legal action against Comcast." Could Comcast be facing a class-action? Where do I sign up?
Linux Business

Submission + - Citrix Announces Acquisition of Xensource (citrix.com) 1

Submitted by dch24
dch24 writes: Citrix announced today in a press release that they will acquire XenSource for $500M. Over at ZDNet UK, "XenSource is a small company, claiming 500 paying customers and 5,000 production users."

This comes hard on the heels of the VMWare IPO. An eWeek article suggests, "The Citrix-XenSource deal might pressure VMware to drop the price on some of its products. To increase the pressure, Citrix announced that it will begin selling XenSource's products through its roughly 5,000 channel partners."

How will this affect the open-source Xen hypervisor? The press release says, "The acquisition will also strengthen each company's strong partnership with Microsoft and commitment to the Windows platform." Does that mean a change in direction?
Operating Systems

Submission + - XenSource releases product, gets bought by Citrix (networkworld.com) 1

Submitted by billstewart
billstewart writes: XenSource has been in the news twice this week — Monday they release a product, then Tuesday they get bought for $500m by Citrix. Here's Network World's take on the buyout and on the product. It looks like the product is packaging new releases of several of their components — there's a 64-bit hypervisor version 3.1 that uses the Intel and AMD hardware tricks, APIs, management tools, and XenMotion, which lets you move running virtual machines around. According to Xen's product page, the free-beer XenExpress version gets the hypervisor, APIs, and some of the management tools, but not the fancier management or XenMotion, and it's somewhat crippled in terms of capacity (max 4 VMs, 2 CPUs, 4GB RAM, while the commercial versions support 128GB total RAM, larger VMs, and unlimited VMs and CPUs.)

(But will it run Linux?) It will run Linux — one of the data sheets implies that Linux only runs in 32-bit mode, while Windows can run 64-bit. Perhaps there's more documentation that provides more details.
First Person Shooters (Games)

Submission + - The Duke Nukem Forever list

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A bunch of geeks have put up a website listing things that have happened since Duke Nukem Forever was announced, including popular video games releases, movie releases, and a lot of trivia.
Microsoft

Submission + - .ANI vulnerability patch breaks applications

Submitted by
Jud
Jud writes: "Microsoft's fix for the .ANI vulnerability was part of Patch Tuesday yesterday. However, all is not well with the update. Reportedly, installing the patch will break applications such as Realtek HD Audio Control Panel and CD-Tag, which mentions they are affected by the problem on their main page. A hotfix is currently available from Microsoft, however their current position is this is an isolated problem and the fix is not planned to be pushed out through Microsoft Update. Did any of your applications break with the latest patch?"

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