Day: October 3, 2013

Twitter spills unprofitable guts in $1bn IPO filing

Loss-making babblechat service’s S-1 chirps inner details……


In Praise of Micromanagement

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes “Sydney Finkelstein writes at BBC that Steve Jobs, Mickey Drexler, and Jeff Bezos all have something in common. They are all builders of giant brands, very successful, and each is (or was) ‘an unmitigated, unapologetic, micromanager!’ The modern executive is taught — in business schools and in many jobs —…


Judge orders probe over Samsung execs viewing secret Apple docs

Did legal team, fox, chickens break confidentiality rules?……


Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-245

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-245 – Integer overflow in kbdint.c in mod_sftp in ProFTPD 1.3.4d and 1.3.5r3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large response count value in an authentication request, which triggers a large memory allocation. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue…….


Circa’s mobile news apps – Are news rewrites a business?

Circa has a great team and pedigree but it’ll have to do more than just rewrite news stories if it is to survive in a tough media business………


Lynis Auditing Tool 1.3.1

Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix (specialists). It scans the system and available software to detect security issues. Beside security related information it will also scan for general system information, installed packages and configuration mistakes. This software aims in assisting automated auditing, software patch management, vulnerability and malware scanning of Unix based systems…….


Microsoft docks Steve Ballmer’s pay over Windows 8, Surface RT

CEO received nearly 80 percent of the total incentive award for which he was eligible in fiscal 2013. Issues plaguing the Windows division were to blame…….


Secure your deleted files in OS X

There are a couple of ways to ensure that file contents are irrecoverable when deleting files in OS X…….


Zenphoto 1.4.5.2 Cross Site Scripting / SQL Injection

Zenphoto version 1.4.5.2 suffers from cross site scripting and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities…….


Microsoft’s Ballmer gets docked for Windows 8, Surface RT

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recieved 76 percent of the total incentive award for which he was eligible in fiscal 2013. Issues plaguing the Windows division were to blame…….