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- Yahoo! Messenger is prone to a remotely exploitable buffer overrun vulnerability. This vulnerability is due to insufficient bounds checking during user-initiated file tr... |
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- A remotely exploitable buffer overrun vulnerability has been reported in Wu-Ftpd if support for S/Key authentication is enabled. The issue exists in the skey_challenge f... |
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- Sun Solaris runtime linker (ld) is a utility that is harnessed to link shared objects to executables at runtime. The environment variable LD_PRELOAD is used to define a l... |
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- Bay-area Tri-Valley Herald ... Dean picked up an endorsement Tuesday from the California Teacher's Association, an unusual move so early in the campaign season. The CTA represents 335,000 teachers statewide. |
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- Online Astronomy collectionMicrosoft engineer Jim Gray showed an online astronomy collection he's developing with researchers at the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a project compiling a complete map of skies visible from the Northern Hemisphere. The survey's catalog contains information on about 100 million objects, and Gray and the project's astronomers have built a new database and a Web site for the public with the information, at skyserver.sdss.org. Wallop Microsoft researcher Lili Cheng demonstrated how software can group a person's friends, family and co-workers based on e-mail behavior. |
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- CJR's langauge corner on the proper use of well. The superstition about "well" seems more widespread than common sense might suggest. Why? A craving for absolutes, perhaps, leading to misguided pedantry. It is well to resist such temptations. |
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- BAGHDAD - The U.S. intervention in Iraq has passed a grim milestone: More soldiers have now lost their lives in the occupation than in combat. |
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- PUERTO PEÑASCO, Sonora - Mexican authorities found no sign Wednesday of five missing fishermen from Tucson, but were expecting to continue the search by land and sea today. |
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- PUERTO PEÑASCO, Sonora - The families and friends of the five men aboard the ship say the men have many things in common: |
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- NEW YORK - Forty names listed on the World Trade Center death toll for more than two years were removed Wednesday because the city cannot confirm their deaths or - in some cases - their existence. |
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- CASTLE ROCK, Colo. - Wind-whipped wildfires raced across tinder-dry forest north and south of Denver on Wednesday, forcing thousands of families to flee. |
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- WASHINGTON - In a victory for the White House, congressional negotiators agreed Wed-nesday not to include loans in an $87 billion package for Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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- WASHINGTON - All around the world, in rich nations and poor ones, women are happier with their lives than men are, although men are more optimistic about the future, according to a survey released Wednesday. |
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- A 21-year-old Army specialist from Douglas was killed Tuesday in Iraq when his tank hit a land mine in Baqubah, about 40 miles northeast of Baghdad. |
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- A vulnerability has been identified in Booby, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct Cross-Site Scripting attacks. |
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- OpenPKG has issued updated packages for postgresql. These fix two vulnerabilities, which potentially can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system. |
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- A vulnerability has been reported in BEA Tuxedo and WebLogic Enterprise, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct Cross-Site Scripting attacks, cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or determine the existence of files. |
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- A vulnerability has been identified in KPopup allowing malicious, local users to escalate their privileges. |
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- Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Musicqueue allowing malicious users to escalate their privileges. |
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- Conectiva has issued updated packages for libnids. These fix a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. |
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- Immunix has issued updated packages for apache, which fix two vulnerabilities in "mod_alias" and "mod_rewrite". |
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- A vulnerability has been identified in tc.SimpleWebserver, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. |
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- A vulnerability has been reported in the Port Mapper service ("PMAP.NLM"), which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). |
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- Two vulnerabilities have been reported in PostgreSQL, which potentially can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system. |
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Bah. (Oct 30 2003 16:30 GMT) - Onveilig? Nee, ik voel me niet onveilig hier. Ja tuurlijk, ik let wel op. Risico's vermijden, maar dat vind ik niet tellen als onveilig. Dat hoort gewoon in een grote stad, dat je je portomonee extra diep wegstopt. |
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- Joel Eidsath writes "Imagine that you found yourself in a position to write a resume for the whole human species. It is a metaphor that Charles Murray uses ... |
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- Fetch me the BB gun, Boy |
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- Quote: "In his statement, Miller stressed, as he has before, that he has no plans to become a Republican. But he said he cannot support... |
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Bill, Kill. (Oct 30 2003 16:28 GMT) - Jaja, die Schnitttechnik. Durch den Hals, durch die Beine, durch den Schädel. Jaja, Gewalt ist Bestandteil unseres Lebens, jaja schon Odysseus und die Freier. Jaja, wollen wir das leugnen? |
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- Peter Klinge published a rather insightful analysis of why many marketers have difficulty moving from over-generalized demographic information to using more precise behavioral measures for targeting. He, like many others examining the issue, comes to the conclusion that the old model of seeking broad reach in fuzzy, indirect targeting categories will wain over time, if slowly. iMedia reports. [summary] |
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- Address-O-Sync is a new freeware utility ($5 donation suggested) which lets you synchronize your addressbooks via Rendezvous without using iSync or .Mac. |
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- Out next month, Malcolm in the Middle, plays James Bond |
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- Nar, this is a hopeless question. It cannot be answered properly, except to say |
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- Here's what's going live tomorrow at 10:02: |
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Metrosexual (Oct 30 2003 16:27 GMT) - Back when Jamie and I were dating, she told me that I was a bit of a metrosexual. I think she'd take that back if she saw my hands right now (cut up a little bit from fishing hooks, line, paddling 25 miles a week, etc.), my tan (a bit uneven, due to, y'know, clothing), my hair (needs a cut - no time for that when you can fish instead!). Yeah, that's me, a regular Grizzly Adams in the making. |
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- Instead "Fox has a new rule that we can't do those little fake news crawls" |
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- Ked dvanast statov Europskej menovej unie (EMU) pred dvoma rokmi zacalo definitivne nahradzat narodne meny novou, spolocnou, stali aj pred ulohou, ako sa zbavit 50 miliard kusov starych minci. |
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- Naklady na razbu a spracovanie desat- a dvadsathalierovych minci kazdy rok stupaju a v sucasnosti su vyssie ako ich nominalna hodnota. |
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- Dnes sa na bratislavskej burze cennych papierov zobchodoval napriamo takmer stvrtinovy balik akcii Zapadoslovenskych zriedel Santovka |
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