Day: September 27, 2013

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201309-22

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201309-22 – Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Squid, possibly resulting in remote Denial of Service. Versions less than 3.2.13 are affected…….


Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1971-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 1971-1 – Vince Weaver discovered a flaw in the perf subsystem of the Linux kernel on ARM platforms. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash). A memory leak was discovered in the user namespace facility of the Linux kernel. A local…


Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1972-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 1972-1 – Vince Weaver discovered a flaw in the perf subsystem of the Linux kernel on ARM platforms. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash). A failure to validate block numbers was discovered in the Linux kernel’s implementation of the XFS…


Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1973-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 1973-1 – Vince Weaver discovered a flaw in the perf subsystem of the Linux kernel on ARM platforms. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash). A failure to validate block numbers was discovered in the Linux kernel’s implementation of the XFS…


Man blames Grand Theft Auto for, um, allegedly ramming 9 cars

An Auburn student might be in trouble, after claiming that a video game caused him to allegedly steal a truck and even kidnap a woman…….


Airbnb helps tenant wins appeal in NY rental case

A New York City agency has decided in favor of a man who was fined $2,400 for renting his home out on Airbnb. The city now has to pay it all back to Nigel Warren…….


A Beautiful Mind and Broken Body For Silicon Valley

pacopico writes “About 30 years ago, a young Marine and math savant named Ramona Pierson was out for a run when she got hit by a drunk driver and had her body shattered. As Businessweek reports, Pierson ended up in coma for 18 months, came out blind and emaciated and was sent to live in…


Samsung Galaxy Note 3 region-locking saga CLEAR AS MUD

Sammy: ‘We only region-lock at activation.’ Users: ‘Then why don’t my SIM cards work?’……


Let there be lights: Crowd-funded lighting campaigns

Take a peek at these awesome Kickstarter and Indiegogo projects…….


Microsoft reports on governments user data requests

In the first half of 2013 governments world-wide made 37,196 requests from Microsoft for user content or transactional data about users. In 817 of these, Microsoft turned over actual user content…….