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Windows RPC exploit spawns bots and worms

Miscreants are taking advantage of slowness in patching systems with an emergency Windows security fix issued late last month to spread malware.

Windows RPC exploit spawns bots and worms

Miscreants are taking advantage of slowness in patching systems with an emergency Windows security fix issued late last month to spread malware.

Google rolls out Android security flaw patch

Android users are finding out that Google is patching a security flaw in their Android OS. Users are receiving messages on their phones that say an update is available. You can choose to install the update, or wait until a later time. According to cnet, the update download is smooth and all works very well.

Web 2.0 Summit: Google, Wikipedia's Tips On Thwarting Spam Abuse

Panelists suggest using spam filtering services, "no follow" links, CAPTCHAs, patching religiously, and possibly even charging money to deter spammer registrations.

Apple Squashes iPhone Bugs

Apple early Friday released iPhone 2.2, the first update to the phone's firmware in more than two months, patching a dozen security vulnerabilities and adding several new features, including Google Street Views to the device's mapping tool.

Gimmiv "worm"

Gimmiv.A is not a worm, it is a trojan. A worm actively operates and spreads through human inaction (ie. not patching). A trojan spreads by humans intentionally executing a trojan program.

Oracle Bug Exploit Loose

An exploit that leverages one of the three-dozen vulnerabilities patched Tuesday by Oracle has been spotted in the wild, a security company said Thursday, making patching even more essential.

Run your NFS server in the user address space with NFS-GANESHA

NFS-GANESHA is an NFS version 2-4 server that runs in the user address space instead of as part of the operating system kernel. Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) lets you run a filesystem in the user address space instead of as part of the Linux kernel, but the FUSE support in the Linux kernel from many Linux distributions does not allow you to export FUSE through NFS. NFS-GANESHA lets you expose FUSE through NFS without patching your kernel.

SmoothWall Simplifies Open Source Security

Paul RubensOpen source security software can be very effective at keeping the bad guys off your network, but it can also be hard to configure and time consuming to keep patched and up to date. That’s the reason for the popularity among network administrators of hardware appliances such the Astaro’s Security Gateway — which we took a look at in a previous article — that integrate a number of applications under a single GUI and provide an automated patching and updating system.

Simple Hack Enables Roughly One Gazillion Japanese Emoticons On Any iPhone

Emoji: if you've never heard of it, that's because you're probably not living in Japan, 12 years old, and a highly social schoolgirl. An emoticon standard that is widely used in the country, it was included in the iPhone 2.2 firmware on the SoftBank network, but not for anyone else. Apparently fed up with his lack of ability to graphically express his numerous LOLs, a developer has figured out a simple tweak to enable these icons system-wide, no matter which carrier you're with. Naturally, to show anything other than unintelligible strings of Unicode the recipient's phone has to support Emoji emoticons, but apparently all 2.2 iPhones, hacked or not, can display the icons. The patching process, after the jump, isn't terribly complicated.

Tiny Hack Enables Roughly One Gazillion Japanese Emoticons On Any iPhone

Emoji: if you've never heard of it, that's because you're probably not living in Japan, 12 years old, and a highly social schoolgirl. An emoticon standard that is widely used in the country, it was included in the iPhone 2.2 firmware on the SoftBank network, but not for anyone else. Apparently fed up with his lack of ability to graphically express his numerous LOLs, a developer has figured out a simple tweak to enable these icons system-wide, no matter which carrier you're with. Naturally, to show anything other than unintelligible strings of Unicode the recipient's phone has to support Emoji emoticons, but apparently all 2.2 iPhones, hacked or not, can display the icons. The patching process, after the jump, isn't terribly complicated.

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