mspohr writes “For over a year, EFF has been fighting the government in federal court to force the public release of an 86-page opinion of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). Issued in October 2011, the secret court’s opinion found that surveillance conducted by the NSA under the FISA Amendments Act was unconstitutional and…

A tweet from the famous TV shrink gets a stormy reaction from his followers and others. It is later removed…….

‘Tens of thousands’ of Linux-based mobes to arrive by Christmas……

At the 2013 Frankfurt auto show next month, BMW will display an X5 model SUV concept with a plug-in hybrid drive system…….

Office supply retailer lays out some hard numbers for shrinking PC sales. Tablets are where the action is…….

Bitbot C2 Panel suffers from cross site scripting and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities in gate2.php…….

Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-1170-01 – MongoDB is a NoSQL database. PyMongo provides tools for working with MongoDB. A flaw was found in the run() function implementation in MongoDB. A database user permitted to send database queries to a MongoDB server could use this flaw to crash the server or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with…

Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-1172-01 – HTCondor is a specialized workload management system for compute-intensive jobs. It provides a job queuing mechanism, scheduling policy, priority scheme, and resource monitoring and management. A denial of service flaw was found in the way HTCondor’s policy definition evaluator processed certain policy definitions. If an administrator used an attribute…

Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-1171-01 – HTCondor is a specialized workload management system for compute-intensive jobs. It provides a job queuing mechanism, scheduling policy, priority scheme, and resource monitoring and management. A denial of service flaw was found in the way HTCondor’s policy definition evaluator processed certain policy definitions. If an administrator used an attribute…

Debian Linux Security Advisory 2739-1 – Two security issues (SQL injection and command line injection via SNMP settings) were found in Cacti, a web interface for graphing of monitoring systems…….