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TCP flaw threatens Web servers

Two researchers in Sweden have found multiple flaws in the TCP stack that could lead to massive denial-of-service attacks if exploited. At present there is no workaround and there are no patches available. Read more »

Kaminsky details DNS flaw

Security researcher Dan Kaminsky has offered more details about a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name System and the extent of the vulnerability. Read more »

Georgian president suffers cyberattack

The website of the Georgian president was the subject of a distributed-denial-of-service attack over the weekend. Read more »

Researcher to expose Intel security flaws

An independent security researcher has flagged plans to reveal a proof of concept security exploit that could work remotely against any machine using Intel processors, including those used in Apple's famously secure Macs. Read more »

Exploit tool reveals inner working of the iPhone

An iPhone debugging tool has been released that reveals the inner workings of Apple's popular gadget. Read more »

DDoS hole found in powerplant software

A hole has been found in software used by critical national infrastructure organisations including oil, gas and power companies that could lead to a successful denial-of-service attack. Read more »

Flaw turns Google into spam spewing machine

A "serious security flaw" in Gmail turns Google's e-mail service into a spamming machine, according to a recent security report. Read more »

Adobe Flash 9 update to destroy and save Web apps

Adobe is issuing an update to Flash Player 9 that it hopes will prevent Flash-based Web applications being used to launch attacks against consumers — but the update may also stop Flash apps working if developers don't heed Adobe's recommendations. Read more »

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Acknowledgement tickles Samba's fancy

With the normal TCP/IP setup it can take up to two hours for a dropped connection to terminate -- the Samba project faced this problem when creating clustered Samba. Read more »

Microsoft patch Tuesday brings security twosome

Microsoft on Tuesday released its January 2008 security bulletin, which includes only two updates: One is designated as "critical" by the software giant and the second one is deemed "important". Read more »

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50 significant moments from internet history

We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »

Realise the flexibility of OpenSSH

OpenSSH is one of the most useful tools available. With it, you can access systems remotely and securely, transfer files securely, execute single commands on remote systems, secure normally insecure services, and much more. Read more »

Developing Bluetooth wireless applications in J2ME

This article reviews the principles of Java development for Bluetooth on mobile devices and describes how to write a Java application for Bluetooth communications. Read more »

Get your feet wet with Sun's tiny Java DB

Java DB is a lightweight database management system (DBMS) that is written completely in Java. It only needs 2 MB of memory, and it makes it very easy to embed a fully functional database directly into your application. Java DB is also standards-based, supports SQL and the JDBC API, and easily integrates with J2EE. Beginning with the release of Java 6, Sun started packaging Java DB in the JDK. Read more »

Troubleshoot Apache with these tips

The Apache Web server is well-proven, but can still offer an administrator headaches from time to time when things go wrong. Read more »

Secure connections to PostgreSQL

The PostgreSQL database server is arguably one of the best SQL servers available, but it's not as easy for beginners to get a handle on it as with other SQL databases, such as MySQL. Read more »

Sending blob attachments in e-mail with utl_smtp

Last time, I showed how to send an HTML-formatted e-mail from an Oracle PL/SQL application using utl_smtp. I promised I would extend the package a little with a second method that allows you to send Binary Large OBject (blob) attachments in the e-mails. Read more »

Sending e-mail from an Oracle database with utl_smtp

If you're running Oracle 10g or later, you can use the nice modern utl_mail package to send e-mails from your PL/SQL applications. If you're running an earlier version of Oracle, you can send e-mails via the older and more complicated utl_smtp package. Read more »

Scalability vs. performance

One of the mental conflicts with building a scalable application is that all of the layers that we add for scalability hurt the performance of the application. Read more »

Dynamic port mapping in Windows 2000 server

Intrasite replication in Windows 2000 Server is always performed with RPC over IP transport, which, by default, uses dynamic port mapping (ports between 49151 and 65535). We'll show you how you can control which ports are used more tightly. Read more »

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Acknowledgement tickles Samba's fancy

With the normal TCP/IP setup it can take up to two hours for a dropped connection to terminate -- Andrew Tridgell explains how the Samba project faced this problem when creating clustered Samba. Read more »

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Google VP's view of the Web

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist Vinton Cerf spoke to an enthusiastic crowd overflowing into the halls of the University of New South Wales this morning Read more »

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