For less than a pound a security expert has got front-door access to a council’s internal network.

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Here’s a decent writeup on how to tweak your bash scripts to be more reliable. It goes step by step and is easy to understand even for a novice. Cheers!
Many people hack together shell scripts quickly to do simple tasks, but these soon take on a life of their own. [...]

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Web-based programs like Google’s Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time, according to the free software campaigner.

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…it seems only people who pay for music risk losing it to DRM shenanigans. Ugh.
Hey suckers! Did you buy DRM music from Wal*Mart instead of downloading MP3s for free from the P2P networks? Well, they’re repaying your honesty by taking away your music. Unless you go through a bunch of hoops (that you may never [...]

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The MySQL community, who create, maintain and support the leading free SQL database — are raising funds for Andrii Nikitin, a MySQL support engineer in Ukraine whose little boy, Ivan, needs a $400,000 bone-barrow transplant.
“My family got bad news – doctors said allogenic bone marrow transplantation is the only chance for my son Ivan.”8 months [...]

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Responding to increasing Internet privacy concerns, AT&T, Verizon, and Time Warner, the country’s largest ISPs, told a Senate committee during a hearing Thursday that they don’t engage in online consumer tracking and want to self-regulate such practices in the future.
The hearing focused on whether ISPs are tracking their customers’ Internet usage and selling that information [...]

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Getting new software installed on Linux doesn’t have to be hard, but it can differ depending on what you’re installing.

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Researchers are beginning to raise an alarm for what looks like a scary new browser exploit/threat affecting all the major desktop platforms — Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Adobe Flash.
The threat, called Clickjacking, was to be discussed at the OWASP NYC AppSec 2008 Conference but, at the request of Adobe and [...]

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Free application Iron is a slightly modified version of the Chromium source of Google Chrome that removes components of Chrome that report your usage habits to Google. In practice, that means it removes your unique user ID, doesn’t send user-specific info to Google, skips crash reporting, and doesn’t check with Google for updates. Some features—like [...]

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Seems like a decent release. The stand-out feature is definitely the tabs in Nautilus. I’m intrigued by Ekiga. I am hopefully only using Gnome temporarily until the KDE folks get their product back in shape. I can’t say I’ve grown to love GNOME in the last six months or so but I’ve grown not to [...]

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Introduction
Malicious SSH login attempts have been appearing in some administrators’ logs for several years. This article revisits the use of honeypots to analyze malicious SSH login attempts and see what can be learned about this activity. The article then offers recommendations on how to secure one’s system against these attacks.
Using honeypots for research
The New Zealand [...]

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When Cuil launched just a couple of months back on the 28th July, it jumped right in there with the ridiculous claim that it was already the biggest search engine on the planet right from the get go. This was, apparently, based upon some clever math which ended up with Cuil indexing some 120 billion [...]

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Completely off topic but, if you grew up in the 90s, this movie is going to be epic… and I’m using that term loosely.

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The commonwealth  of Kentucky issued a seizure order on September 18, ordering  141 domains be taken from their registrants.
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“”The Domain names shall be immediately transferred by their respective registrars to an account of the Commonwealth of Kentucky “”.
The seizure was taken after the Commonwealth found that the “domains were being used in [...]

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A free online alternative to the Windows operating system is set to be introduced in schools in three Russian regions by 2009. If the pilot project proves successful, all schools across the country will make the switch a year later.

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Looks like Bill O’Reilly skipped the First Amendment section of Journalism 101. He thinks owners of websites (NSFW) that posted Sarah Palin’s hacked emails should be prosecuted along with the hacker who broke into her account. When a Fox news anchor attempts to explain why the websites can’t be prosecuted, he refuses to accept it, [...]

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I’m sure many of you (at least, those of you who are interested at all) have heard the new album by now, and a lot have not been happy with the sound quality…specifically the way the mix has been amped up increase the loudness at lower volume levels, at the expense of loss of dynamic [...]

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