Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
CLI Magic: ext2hide veils sensitive files
Friday, July 18th, 2008ext2hide is a proof-of-concept program that seeks to magically hide confidential data and files where nobody will look for them. It accomplishes its magic by making use of otherwise abandoned space in the superblocks in ext2/ext3 filesystems. Even though Jason McManus, the author of the code, has been testing and ...
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The problem of Firefox in Ubuntu Breezy
Friday, July 18th, 2008I have been investigating the situation with firefox 1.0.8 in Breezy given the presence of known security problems in 1.5.0.3 in Dapper (for which we are planning to deploy 1.5.0.4 from upstream just as soon as dapper-security is open). The situation isn't very good, and none of our options look ...
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