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Attack Code Published For DNS Vulnerability 205

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @07:38PM from the protect-ya-neck dept.

get_Rootin writes "That didn't take long. ZDNet is reporting that HD Moore has released exploit code for Dan Kaminsky's DNS cache poisioning vulnerability into the point-and-click Metasploit attack tool. From the article: 'This exploit caches a single malicious host entry into the target nameserver. By causing the target nameserver to query for random hostnames at the target domain, the attacker can spoof a response to the target server including an answer for the query, an authority server record, and an additional record for that server, causing target nameserver to insert the additional record into the cache.' Here's our previous Slashdot coverage."

EC2 Vs. App Engine Vs. GoGrid Vs. AppNexus 109

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @04:04PM from the seeing-shapes-in-the-clouds dept.

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner delves into the ill-defined realm of 'cloud computing,' providing a deeper look at four shared services: Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, GoGrid, and AppNexus. Offering wildly divergent amounts of hand-holding at various layers in the stack, the services simplify your workload but force you into a set, 'ball-and-chain-computing' routine that you may not prefer. Sure, the services allow you to pull CPU cycles from thin air whenever you need to, but they can't solve the deepest problems that make it hard for applications to scale gracefully, Wayner writes. He describes these 'clouds' as an evolving experiment, rife with potential but 'far from clear winners over traditional shared Web hosting.' The sobering look at the trend includes a QuickTime tour of each service — EC2, App Engine, GoGrid, AppNexus (those links all .MOV)."

Feed Engadget: Stealth Computer rolls out LPC-350PCI Little PC (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Friday August 17, 2007 @11:33AM

Filed under: Desktops

If Stealth Computer's LPC-450 "Little PC" was a little too powerful for you, you may want to consider the company's new LPC-350PCI model, which cuts back on some of the specs but offers a few advantages of its own. The biggest of those is a PCI slot for some added expansion options, although that seems to have come at the expense of the latest and greatest processors, with a Celeron M370 or Pentium M740 your only options here. Otherwise, you'll get up to 2GB of RAM, a standard 80GB hard drive (or optional flash drive), your choice of DVD/CD-RW or DVD-RW drives, and a decent array of ports, including DVI output, FireWire, and three USB ports. If that's not too much of a trade-off for you, you can get one now for just under $1,000 for the base configuration.

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Feed Macworld: News: Skype problems may continue throughout the day (macworld.com)

From feed by macworldfeed on Friday August 17, 2007 @11:32AM

Skype said that a problem with its VOIP service affecting millions of its customers is likely to continue throughout the day.

Comment Gnome development has stopped (Score 1) 186

by orbit on Monday March 15, 1999 @09:45PM (#1982321) Attached to: Debian Reveals glibc2.1

> It will keep inflicting its demand on Linux users to install just the right versions of dozens of libraries (almost all of which are NOT compatible with previous versions) to have a chance of working at all.

One thing is for sure : windows dll's and service packs often have the same problem. I hardly had to install any new versions of any library before in Linux.
But you are right that incompatibility between (sometimes even minor) versions of libraries are real problems for an average user. Something has got to be done for that (cfr. Software for Redhat 5.1 is very unlikely to work fine for Redhat 5.0 and vice versa: I had to move to Redhat 5.1 or 5.2 from 5.0 to be able to run StarOffice 5.0: incompatiblities between glibc 2.0.5 and 2.0.7).

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