Archive for the ‘News’

  • SpamAssassin 2010 bug
    From : https://secure.grepular.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/01/spamassassin-2010-bug/ I use SpamAssassin to filter the spam out of my incoming email. Last night I noticed that a legitimate email had a particularly high spam score. On further investigation I found that a rule named FH_DATE_PAST_20XX was triggering: * 3.2 FH_DATE_PAST_20XX The date is grossly in the future I...
    by Liz Quilty at January 2nd, 2010 at 10:01 am
  • Chedder Bay Kernel Exploit
    Found at : http://www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog:20090718 A new 0-day attack on the Linux kernel has just been released by Brad Spengler called the “Chedder Bay Exploit” which exploits a flaw in the Linux 2.6.30+ kernel. This exploit is interesting, in that the code doesn’t look particularly broken, but when compiled the compiler optimisations...
    by Liz Quilty at July 18th, 2009 at 09:07 am
  • Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Update (RC2)
    ——————————————- The Debian Project                                 http://www.debian.org/ Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 updated                             press@debian.org June 27th, 2009                  http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090627 ————————————————————————- Debian...
    by Liz Quilty at June 28th, 2009 at 10:06 am