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Local Privilege Escalation On All Linux Kernels 595

Posted by timothy from the uriah-deems-it-scary dept.
QuesarVII writes "Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes have discovered a severe security flaw in all 2.4 and 2.6 kernels since 2001 on all architectures. 'Since it leads to the kernel executing code at NULL, the vulnerability is as trivial as it can get to exploit: an attacker can just put code in the first page that will get executed with kernel privileges.'"
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NASA Taking Ethernet Into Deeper Space 77

Posted by CmdrTaco from the once-i-took-it-into-my-bathroom dept.
coondoggie writes "While Ethernet technology has gone places no one would have envisioned 36 years ago, NASA today signed an agreement with a German Ethernet vendor to build highly fault-tolerant networks for space-based applications. TTTech builds a set of time-triggered services called TTEthernet that is implemented on top of standard IEEE802.3 Ethernet. Its technology is designed to enable design of synchronous, highly dependable embedded computing and networking, capable of tolerating multiple faults, the company said."
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A Scroll Down Meme Lane Screenshot-sm 4

Posted by samzenpus from the tunak-tunak-tun-where-have-you-been dept.
Here's a short history of the internet and internet memes from 1970 to the present. Nothing really important happens until Sept. 1998 of course, but it's still neat to see it all laid out.

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