Logging The Cyber World

Linux distributor red Hat has issued a critical security update after its servers were hacked last week.

The organisation has acknowledged the attack, and one on the Fedora servers as well. It says that it is investigating to see if data was stolen or malware introduced to its systems.

“In connection with the incident, the intruder was able to get a small number of OpenSSH packages relating only to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (i386 and x86_64 architectures only) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86_64 architecture only) signed.

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Hackers always are on the lookout for the most vulnerable spot on your personal computers. These days, that weakest link might be your flash thumb drive.

Thumb drives — which can fit gigabytes of documents, music and video on a stick about the size of a pack of gum — are a convenient way to shuffle files among different computers. They plug into your computer’s universal serial bus port and appear as a hard drive on your PC.

Their growing popularity, huge storage capacity and ability to load a computer’s essential system files makes them an inviting target for hackers, too.

ThreatSense.Net, the malware monitoring site run by antivirus software maker Eset, found that 10.3% of recent malware detections involved programs trying to take advantage of thumb drives and other removable media.

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The team behind the popular torrent site The Pirate Bay has started to work on a new encryption technology that could potentially protect all Internet traffic from prying eyes. The project, which is still in its initial stages, goes by the name “Transparent end-to-end encryption for the Internets,” or IPETEE for short. It tackles encryption not on the application level, but on the network level, the aim being that all data exchanged on your PC would be encrypted, regardless of its nature — be it a web browser streaming video files or an instant messaging client. As Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij (a.k.a. Tiamo) told me, “Even applications that don’t supporting encryption will be encrypted where possible.”

Full Article from newteevee.com

IMO, I think this is good for all of us. This will add an extra security when surfing or using the net. B-)

For more details about this new XSS Filter for Internet Explorer 8, read here (XSSFilter in IE8.0)

PCMech.com has posted an article about “Why Use Linux (Myths and Reasons)”

Myths:
Myth 1: “Linux is hard to install”
Myth 2: “Linux does not recognize my hardware”
Myth 3: “Linux is too complicated to use”
Myth 4: “There are no applications available”

Reasons:
Reason 1: Security
Reason 2: Updatability
Reason 3: Support
Reason 4: Self-improvement
Reason 5: Cost

Read the complete article here.