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Installing and Configuring OpenVPN in Linux Servers
What is a VPN?
VPN stands for virtual private network. It allows you to connect securely to a private network via internet and work as...
Extracting License Information From RPM Files and Distributions
I've noticed what seems to be a growing demand on behalf of downstream recipients of open source software to provide a list of all...
Day One at Camp KDE 2010
The first day of Camp KDE is behind us, with the first of the many presentations being well attended. A full summary of the...
Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2010:014: transmission
A vulnerability has been found and corrected in transmission:
Directory traversal vulnerability in libtransmission/metainfo.c in
Transmission 1.22, 1.34, 1.75, and 1.76 allows remote attackers to
overwrite arbitrary...
Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2010:013: transmission
Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in transmission:
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Transmission 1.5
before 1.53 and 1.6 before 1.61 allows remote attackers...
Bash 201: Intermediate Guide to Bash
Last week we took a look at some of the basics of using the GNU Bash shell. Of course, that's not all there is...
Ubuntu Security Notice 887-1: LibThai Vulnerability
Tim Starling discovered that LibThai did not correctly handle long strings. A remote attacker could use specially-formed strings to execute arbitrary code with the...
Ubuntu Security Notice 886-1: Pidgin Vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Pidgin did not properly handle certain topic messages in the IRC protocol handler. If a user were tricked into connecting...
Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2010:012: mysql
Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in mysql:
mysqld in MySQL 5.0.x before 5.0.88 and 5.1.x before 5.1.41 does
not (1) properly handle errors during...
Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2010:011: mysql
Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in mysql:
mysqld in MySQL 5.0.x before 5.0.88 and 5.1.x before 5.1.41 does
not (1) properly handle errors during...