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Submission + - New Hacker Challenge Released (ethicalhacker.net)

Submitted by carpus on Saturday June 16, 2007 @10:11AM

carpus writes: Don at EthicalHacker.net has released a new challenge to prove your security-fu. This latest hacker challenge, called "Serenity Hack" is based on the movie Serenity, and should prove challenging as well as entertaining. Anyone who has seen the movie should check it out. Anyone with any security prowess should also *definitely* try your hand.

Submission + - Valve customer credit card details hacked

Submitted by appregator on Saturday April 14, 2007 @10:23AM

appregator writes: It seems Valve's security is under fire once again, this time a hacker by the name of MaddoXX has gained root access to their servers. After exposing customer information, including several full credit card numbers, and Valve bank account details, the hacker threatened to release more in an apparent attempt to extort Valve. The screenshots posted by the hacker show their total assets to be at around 9.2 million USD. When users began reporting the leak on the steampowered forums their threads were quickly deleted. Why on earth was such personal information being stored on a web server? Screenshot of hackers website at http://i17.tinypic.com/2e0irza.jpg (masking CC numbers), taken by the steampowered forum user.

Submission + - The Stanford Unix Raper

Submitted by on Thursday March 08, 2007 @08:16AM

An anonymous reader writes: A student of Stanford U. geeks out to the extream. In a live concert he gives Wierd al A run for his money in the geeky songs department. The video was part of the documentary, NERDCORE FOR LIFE. The video can be found at Youtube

Submission + - Mob rule overruns Reddit

Submitted by

netbuzz

on Thursday March 08, 2007 @07:31AM

netbuzz writes: "Here's one to consider the next time Slashdot readers get all huffy about the work of Slashdot's editors. Over at Reddit this morning we are seeing the problem with "meritocracy" social-bookmarking sites, writ large. Sometimes the wisdom of crowds turns into an unruly mob, witness the fact that 14 of the top 15 items on that site are about "impeachment."

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1224 0"

Submission + - Linked List Sorting,10 times Faster than MergeSort

Submitted by

virusfree

on Sunday February 25, 2007 @11:57AM

virusfree writes: "Sorting has always been important in computer science. An article has been published about BitFast, a new algorithm (belongs to Hash algorithms family) that can sort a linked list up to 10 times faster than MergeSort Source codes are available to download and test it yourself"

Submission + - DragonFly BSD to develop own filesystem

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 25, 2007 @01:40AM

An anonymous reader writes: Matt Dillon has decided to develop a new filesystem from scratch to support DragonFly's clustering, rather than port an existing one. From his post: "There are currently two rough spots in the design. First, how to handle segment overflows in a multi-master environment. Such overflows can occur when the individual masters or slaves have different historical data retention policies. Second, where to store the regeneratable indexes."

Submission + - March is the Month of PHP bugs

Submitted by

PHP

on Monday February 19, 2007 @07:20PM

PHP writes: "Stefan Esser is the founder of both the Hardened-PHP Project and the PHP Security Response Team (which he recently left). During an interview with SecurityFocus he announced the upcoming "Month of PHP bugs" initiative: "We will disclose different types of bugs, mainly buffer overflows or double free(/destruction) vulnerabilities, some only local, but some remotely trigger-able (for example, because they are in functions usually exposed to user input). Additionally there are some trivial bypass vulnerabilities in PHP's own protection features. [...] As a vulnerability reporter you feel kinda puzzled how people among the PHP Security Response Team can claim in public that they do not know about any security vulnerability in PHP, when you disclosed about 20 holes to them in the two weeks before. At this point you stop bothering whether anyone considers the disclosure of unreported vulnerabilities unethical. Additionally a few of the reported bugs have been known for years among the PHP developers and will most probably never be fixed. In total we have more than 31 bugs to disclose, and therefore there will be days when more than one vulnerability will be disclosed. The Month of PHP bugs will take place in March 2007.""

Submission + - Level 1 Web Browsers...

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19, 2007 @05:07PM

An anonymous reader writes: Looks like Microsoft are defining Browsers as either Level 1 or 2 with Level 1 being the superior browser consisting of guess which browsers...! http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sha repoint/techinfo/sysreqs.mspx

Submission + - Pre-Installed Linux tops Dell customer requests

Submitted by

dhart

on Monday February 19, 2007 @04:26PM

dhart writes: "Within only a few days of opening a new customer feedback website, Dell has discovered the feature most requested (by a wide margin!) as an option on all new Dell PCs: Pre-installed Linux. I believe they'll have a harder time now with the tired old mantra "there's no customer demand for Linux"."

Ruby Implementation Shootout 112

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 19, 2007 @02:04PM from the always-with-the-shooting dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ruby has an ever growing number of alternative implementations, and many of these attempt to improve the suboptimal performance of the current mainstream interpreter. Antonio Cangiano has an interesting article in which he benchmarks a few of the most popular Ruby implementations, including Yarv (the heart of Ruby 2.0), JRuby, Ruby.NET, Rubinius and Cardinal (Ruby on Parrot). Numerical evidence is provided rather than shear opinions. The tests show that Yarv is the fastest implementation and that it offers a promising future when it comes to the speed of the next Ruby version."

Submission + - Marc Fleury leader of JBoss, leaves RedHat

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12, 2007 @11:33AM

An anonymous reader writes: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2093145,00.as p Can open source really be bought? OSS is about people and brands. RedHat bought the brand, but can it hold on to the people?

Submission + - 3D Mario Bros Clone Released

Submitted by Croakyvoice on Sunday February 11, 2007 @10:09PM

Croakyvoice writes: Sanik has released an homebrew game for the PSP that is a clone of Super Mario Bros 1 for the NES, but with a major new addition, the game is in psuedo 3D, it plays on what looks like a wraparound screen.

Submission + - Code-Search: The Next Silver Bullet?

Submitted by Mitchell Bogues on Friday February 02, 2007 @06:26AM

Mitchell Bogues writes: It's always been a dream of programmers: stop reinventing the while loop. Find that method, end your madness. Well, there's a solution cresting that hill: still in the alpha stage, fledgling source-code search engine Allthecode is already turning heads, among amateur hackers and corporate brass alike.
The refreshingly clean interface is reminiscent of Google in its heyday — as are the mind-reading, mind-blowing search algorithms employed. The database was apparently cobbled together from hundreds (so far) of open-source and free-software projects, and thus under a variety of licences.
This seems like just what we need to unify the open-source community, leading to an actual common repository of unique code, and ending the cycle of "hoboware": the errant macros, subroutines, and entire classes that have in the past been easier to re-write than to track down and put to work.

Submission + - Xfce 4.4.0 Released

Submitted by

kelnos

on Sunday January 21, 2007 @11:05PM

kelnos writes: "After more than two years since our previous stable feature release, the Xfce Team is proud to announce the release of Xfce 4.4.0. This release features our new file manager, Thunar, as well as many improvements and feature additions to Xfce's core components.

Head over to our brand-new website and take a look at our visual tour, or go straight to the downloads."

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