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The Windows Taskkill Utility |
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Windows XP has a little-known built-in utility for killing processes. This utility is called Taskkill. Most people have never heard of it before. It's designed to end one or more tasks or processes by killing the process ID or image name of the running program.
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Senator To AT&T: You Don't Own The Net |
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AT&T, Verizon and other telcos have been warning that they're going to demand money from Google and other sites if those sites want adequate bandwidth. But now a senator is proposing to ban the practice, and is standing up to the telcos, who are acting more like a cybermafia than legitimate businesses. |
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Joomla! Security Audit |
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A Security Audit has discovered 30 Security vulnerabilities within Joomla! core components that allow unwanted viewing to the data of these components – under the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) – this is categorized as an A2 Broken Access Control Security Vulnerability.
What this vulnerability means is that the data not meant to be viewed is still viewable when they should not be - either because their state has been set to `unpublished` or that their access level is set higher than `public`. Thus all of these vulnerabilities are characterized as being Data Viewing Security Vulnerabilities.
It is possible that these vulnerabilities also affect the Mambo 4.5.1 and Mambo 4.5.0 – although no specific tests were conducted on these codebases.
These security vulnerabilities do NOT mean unauthorized Control or Access of a site can occur. The latest version of Joomla! core remains totally secure from site hacking or attempts at unauthorized control.
Download `Joomla! Security Audit - A2 Broken Access Control [26 Feb 2006]` |
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Fedex Kinkos Smart Card Authentication Bypass |
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The ExpressPay stored-value card system used by FedEx Kinko's is vulnerable to attack. An attacker who gains the ability to alter the data stored on the card can use FedEx Kinko's services fraudulently and anonymously, and can even obtain cash from the store. |
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VMWare Server Now Free! |
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I have always been a huge fan of VMWare Workstation. "The basic idea is that it lets you run a whole PC inside a window, with its own operating system and hard drive."
I've dreamed of the day when I could use something similar for servers. VMWare has had a couple of server products for a while now, GSX and ESX, but they were expensive and complicated.
No longer. VMWare Server is going free. Wow. Mike Gunderloy explains why this is "a market-changing move." This is great stuff, and it's not half baked. |
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Portable Wi-Fi Hotspots |
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David Pogue reviews several portable wi-fi access points in the New York Times. If you have cellular Internet access, you can plug the PC card into the wi-fi box and presto, you've got Wi-Fi from wherever you are." From the article: "The card provides the Internet connection, courtesy of those companies' 3G ("third generation") high-speed cellular data networks. The box just rebroadcasts that connection as a Wi-Fi signal so that all nearby computers -- not just one privileged laptop -- can go online. With those PC cards, you can go online anywhere there's a cellular signal: in a taxi, on a bus, in a waiting room or wherever. In major cities, the speed is delightful, like a D.S.L. or slowish cable modem (400 to 700 kilobits a second). |
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Genndy Tartakovsky to Direct Dark Crystal Sequel |
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The folks at Jim Henson productions announced almost without fanfare that a sequel to the impressive The Dark Crystal is in the works and will be directed by the award-winning Genndy Tartakovsky, who created the hit series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Samurai Jack and Dexter's Laboratory, will direct 'Power of the Dark Crystal,' the sequel to the 1982 classic fantasy film. |
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illperipherals GMail now active! |
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We are proud to announce that we are now using GMail to handle all of our illperipherals.net webmail. If you already have an account, you can login to it via "Members Only->GMail". If you want an illperipherals.net account setup, shoot me an email, and I'll take care of it for you. Enjoy this new service, and let us know if you have any problems. |
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Free software, Big Oil and Venezuelan politics |
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This month, a new law goes into effect in Venezuela mandating that all government agencies migrate their information technology infrastructure to free, or open-source, software. While it has not been uncommon in recent years for nations in the developing world to cast a leery eye on the licensing fees and technological dependency associated with relying on proprietary software made by Western corporations, Venezuela's determination to move everything to free software may be the most extreme example yet of the emerging global politics of open source. |
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AT&T Pays Off Congressmen To Kill Municipal Networks |
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AT&T has been using its considerable checkbook to pay off Congressman to ban cities and towns from setting up their own broadband and wireless networks. The top two recipients of AT&T campaign donations in 2006 have proposed laws to ban or dramatically curtail municipal networks. That's according to Russel Shaw's blog. Shaw dug into AT&T campaign donations, and found that the top recipient this year is Representative Pete Sessions (R-Texas), and number two is Senator John Ensign (R-Nevada). Sessions has proposed a law that would outright ban municipal networks. At the heart of his so-called "Preserving Innovation in Telecom Act" is section two, titled, "Prohibition On Municipal Services." As the name implies, it would outlaw municipal networks. Ensign's proposal isn't much better. It would put such serious roadblocks in front of municipal networks, that in essence, they would be banned. AT&T is proving once again that it's trying to provide us with the best Congress its money can buy -- and hurt us all in the process. Posted by Preston Gralla at 10:16 AM
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