Barbeque Season
After four long months of cold and winter, we are finally coming up to summer and BBQ season. Therefore it is important to refresh your memory on the etiquette of this sublime outdoor cooking, as it’s the only type of cooking a real man will do, probably because there is some of danger involved.
When [...]
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Final Salute
In Java Woes! I had an issue of an executable JAR not accessing two external dependencies! I figured out what was wrong.
1.) It was not using my manifest file that I had specified because I had placed the manifest file arguement in the wrong spot.
2.) The manifest file Class-Path delimiter was a space not a [...]
I need help from the Java guru’s which might visit this blog. Right now I am working on a Java app which when completed will be wrapped up into an executable JAR file. However, this Java app requires the log4j and LAF jars: log4j-1.2.13.jar, synthetica.jar (respectively).
When my executable JAR file is run it can not [...]
It appears some folks have begun a new project to pick up where BlueSecurity left off. The project is called Okopipi, and is based on the same ideas as the BlueFrog anti-SPAM system, however, it’s p2p style. BlueSecurity server’s were knocked offline by a massive denial of service attack which took out not only BlueSecurities [...]
So, it’s been confirmed. Opening specially crafted Microsoft Word Documents in Microsoft Word 2002/XP can unload a harmful payload onto your machine, MS Security Advisory 919637.
There are mixed reports of whether or not version 2003 and 2000 are also affected. Microsoft’s recommendation is that you only open untrusted Word documents using the MS Word [...]
Here are the following steps to disable the root account from being accessed via SSH. Remember, no user account should have the same password as the root. You will be able to access root functions by becoming super user ($ su):
1.) open /etc/ssh/sshd_config with an editor such as pico, vi(m)
2.) find the line Protocol [...]
The spammers have won. According to several sources, one being Prolexic Technologies news release which states:
May 17, 2006
As we’ve detailed previously, Prolexic has been fending malicious cyber attacks from one or more criminal spammers attempting to intimidate the firm, subsequent to Prolexic deploying its system to defend a recent customer. We can now [...]
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) reports the following news article:
“Voting Glitch Said to Be ‘Disastrous’”
Inside Bay Area (CA) (05/10/06); Hoffman, Ian
A recently discovered vulnerability in Diebold’s touch-screen voting machines has election officials scrambling to understand and contain the risk. A hacker with minimal specialized knowledge of Diebold’s system and an off-the-shelf component could [...]
I’d consider myself a major PHP developer and decided I’ll post the news about PHP 5.1.4 critical bug introduced in 5.1.3. There was a regression which was added that when a form with HTML elements given names such as “blah[a]” and “blah[b]” was POSTed, PHP did not produce the expected result. You can read the [...]