[Link] Source Code of Older Symantec Antivirus Stolen

Security Week
Brian Prince (January 06, 2012 - Updated)

<Symantec Investigating Possible Theft of Norton AV Source Code>

Update:
<Facebook - Symantec confirms>

Another CA Compromised

itworld.com
Lucian Constantin, IDG News Service (December 08, 2011)

<Dutch SSL certificate provider Gemnet investigates website compromise>

[Link] Inserting fake certificates to sniff SSL and hijack DNS

seventhoctober.net (Aug 17, 2011)

<SSL MITM with an inserted CA and a DNS hijack>

[Link] How to find 0-day in browsers

abazhanyuk.com (August 7, 2011)

<How to find 0-day in browsers>

[Link] Another List of 50 Top Linux Apps

laptoplogic.com (Jan 23, 2009)

<Top 50 Linux Alternatives to Popular Apps>

[Link] Slackware 12.2 Released

Slackware 12.2 Released (Dec 10, 2008)

A quick look at what Slackware 12.2 ships with:

• Linux kernel  2.6.27.7


• Xorg X server  1.4.2


• Xfce  4.4.3


• KDE  3.5.10 (4.1 is in /testing directory)


• HAL

<Slackware 12.2 Release Announcement>

[Link] 100 Best Open Source Security Tools

A great list of 100 open source security tools. They are categorized; each having a short description and link to it's home page. I can see most of my favorites in the list.

Masters in Criminal Justice (Nov 26, 2008)

<100 Best Open Source Security Tools>

[Link] How-to Make a GRUB Background Image

MakeUseOf.com (Nov 29, 2008)

<How To Create A Custom Splashimage For GRUB>

Tired of Stupid Questions People Should Have Googled?

Let Me Google That For You [dot] Com

<LetMeGoogleThatForYou.Com>

Tired of people asking stupid questions they could have easily Google'd themselves? This website generates a link for you like so:

http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=turn+power+on

This link you can share with your local lazy fool. The link will show an informative animation showing how to enter their particular query into Google, click search, declare "Was that so hard?", and then show the results. Try it above!

(Requires JavaScript access to letmegooglethatforyou.com and googleapis.com)

[Link] The 7 Deadly Linux Commands

Tech Source From Bohol (Nov 20, 2008)

<Tech Source From Bohol - The 7 Deadly Linux Commands>

[Link] ASCII Mandelbrot Created With Single SQL Statement

This is a single T-SQL statement that is less than 50 lines, with source code. A screen shot of the resulting ASCII Mandelbrot is included.

The Daily WTF (Nov 19, 2008)

<Stupid Coding Tricks: The T-SQL Mandelbrot>

[Link] USB 3.0 is Blazing Fast

The Future of Things has put together a great collection of information about USB 3.0, saying,

"Devices employing USB 3.0 specifications are planned to be available to consumers in 2009 or 2010 and would be backwards compatible with USB 2.0 and USB 1.1."

The most mouth-watering is the speed; 25GB should take 70 seconds!

(Nov 11, 2008)

<The Future of Things - 25GB in 70 seconds with USB 3.0>

[Link] Windows 7 is , You Guessed it, Vista Rebranded

Kernel process profiling shows it looks like a Vista; performance testing shows is walks like a Vista; claims of being a high performing Linux-laptop-killer falling flat on it's face, make it sound like a just another disappointing Vista.

InfoWorld 5 pages (Nov 10, 2008)

<InfoWorld - Test Center benchmarks: Windows 7 unmasked>

[Link] Windows 3.x Still Dying

Microsoft ended support for Windows 3.x at the end of 2001, but 3.x continued on as an embedded operating system. Windows 3.x continued to power cash registers, ticket systems, and even in-flight entertainment systems.

"On 1 November Microsoft stopped issuing
licences [for Windows3.x]"(Ward)


BBC News (Mark Ward) (Nov 5, 2008)

<BBC News - The end of an era - Windows 3.x>

[Link] Russian researchers achieve 100-fold increase in WPA2 cracking speed

Security and the Net(Oct 12, 2008)
(Distributed cracking with GPUs.)

<Russian researchers achieve 100-fold increase in WPA2 cracking speed>

[Link] Microsoft programming contest hacked, defaced

iTWire [3 pages] (Oct 6, 2008)

<Microsoft programming contest hacked, defaced>