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August 2008 - Posts
RedHat Package Signing Server - Pwnd
EDIT : Holy crap: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0855.html "In connection with the incident, the intruder was able to sign a small number of OpenSSH packages relating only to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (i386 and x86_64 architectures only) and
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The truth about the Dowd / Sotirov Vista memory protection bypass stuff
Good short interview with Sotirov who clarifies what actually happened at Blackhat for some folks: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=513 He mentions some interesting stuff - like how they worked with us, we gave them feedback, worked with the other vendors
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Happy Patch Tuesday - Random thoughts
The SnapShot Viewer 0-day that has seen limited exploitation in the wild is now patched - here's an interesting write-up with some things you may not have known about it. Here's the deal - IE Protected Mode, while not a true defendable security boundary
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VMWare Fail Closed Goat Award
Here's one for the schadenfreude files - VMWare users running ESX 3.5.x Update 2 will be unable to power on their machines today / tomorrow / everafter until a fix is released by VMWare to correct a licensing bug that causes legit copies of the software
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OpenID Fail Open Goat Award
Really interesting that CRL checks aren't baked into a lot of open source OpenID providers: http://www.links.org/files/openid-advisory.txt Sun has already updated their web site with this disclaimer: Security Issues OpenID is an untrusted protocol. Sun
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We're going for an Olympic Silver(light)
Sort of an interesting story on how it came to be that Microsoft Silverlight was chosen to broadcast the Olympics via the series of interconnecting tubes: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10003752-56.html?tag=nefd.lede I'm guessing Silverlight supports
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