Ubuntu Security Notice 1933-1 – Chanam Park reported a Null pointer flaw in the Linux kernel’s Ceph client. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash). An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel’s fanotify interface. A local user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information…

Ready for the impending ESXi and vSphere 5.5……

The new t820 Flexible Series Thin Client is ‘eight times faster’ than its predecessor, while the WS460c Gen8 Graphics Server Blade offers high-performance visual computing to up to eight users…….

The Australian telecommunications industry is gearing up for 115,000 Kogan Mobile customers preparing to flee the telco in the wake of ISPOne entering administration…….

At startup incubator Y Combinator’s Summer Demo Day, the augmented reality company catches the crowd’s attention with its vision of the future of computing…….

RSA Authentication Agent for PAM version 7.0.2 and prior relied on the PAM-enabled application to restrict the number of login attempts that may be made via the agent, rather than natively enforcing such restriction.. This may allow attackers to carry brute-force attacks against the vulnerable systems. RSA Authentication Agent for PAM 7.0.2.1 and 7.1 and…

Redacted document reveals seething hatred in spook cloud battle……

Samsung DVRs put usernames and passwords base64 encoded into cookies. They also fail to validate the cookies in many places, so any values work, allowing for authentication bypass. A proof of concept exploit that lists all users and passwords is included…….

Each week, we round up some of the most thoughtful comments from the CNET community. Here are some of this week’s best…….

An anonymous reader writes “The Brisbane Times notes that ‘Julian Assange’s Wikileaks Party has come under fire for directing its preferences to the Shooters and Fishers Party and the white nationalist Australia First Party ahead of both major parties and the Greens in the NSW Senate race. Australia First’s policies include reducing and limiting immigration…