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2nd August 2009 Archive

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  • cPanel, Netgear and Linksys susceptible to nasty attack

    Defcon Unholy trinity

    If you use cPanel to administer your website or certain Linksys or Netgear devices to route traffic over your wireless network, you're susceptible to web-based attacks that could take complete control of your systems, two security researchers said Saturday. All three wares contain CSRF, or cross-site request forgery, holes …

    Enterprise Security 2 Aug 00:01

  • CentOS back from brink of death

    Disappearing admin reappears

    CentOS is alive. Two days after a core group of developers posted an open letter to primary admin Lance Davis, threatening to fork the open source OS if he didn't discuss his apparent disappearance from the project, Davis has answered their call - and he seems to have quelled their complaints. "The CentOS Development team had …

    Operating Systems 2 Aug 08:32