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Root Password Readable in Clear Text with Ubuntu
BBitmaster writes "An extremely critical bug and security threat was discovered in Ubuntu Breezy Badger 5.10 earlier today by a visitor on the Ubuntu Forums that allows anyone to read the root password simply by opening an installer log file. Apparently the installer fails to clean its log files and...
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Sendmail Removed From NetBSD
Derkjan de Haan writes "Christos Zoulas removed sendmail from the NetBSD source tree, after a lot of discussion about its security track-record. Sendmail will remain available from pkgsrc." But without sendmail.cf foo, how will we distinguish between the best admins and the mediocre? Sendmail was m...
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Is Your AJAX App Secure?
ShaolinTiger writes "An article looking in detail at some of the security problems with AJAX, how to find them and how to approach them or fix them. Security with AJAX is of course an important consideration as it's asychronous and a malicious user could write data back to your database if implement...
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Windows Rootkit. Nuevas tecnica de rootkits
An anonymous reader writes "The rootkit wars have started to escalate with a rootkit named Rustock which is able to remain hidden from all the popular anti-rootkit tools. It uses some new techniques including not only putting itself in a ADS (NTFS alternate data stream) which isn't seen by normal f...
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Firefox 2 To Have Anti-Phishing Technology
Mitchell Bronze writes "Mozilla's Mike Shaver said in an interview that the upcoming Firefox 2 will have anti-phishing capability using technology that might come from Google." From the article: "With the continued rise in online attacks, security tools have become something Web browser makers can u...
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XSS, Cookies, Sessions
twistedmoney45 writes "Informit.com provides an insiders look at a real life XSS attack and how it was used to bypass the authentication scheme of an online web application, leading to "shell" access, an admin account, and more. XSS attacks are often discussed in theory — this walk through ill...
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