Entries tagged with 'Security'

Links of interest for 27 Jan 2010 - 14 Feb 2010:

eWEEK’s Top 25 Technologies Of The Decade - Including Solaris 10 - "During the latter half of '00s, Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10 sat at the leading edge of operating system technologies, with unique capabilities that include Containers virtualisation, Dtrace system instrumentation and the ZFS file [...]

Links of interest for 26 Sep 2009 - 14 Oct 2009:

xkcd - Static - Hee hee hee
Guest Account Bug in Snow Leopard Causes Data Loss - Ooops. Just as well I disabled this account a long time ago.
MySQL ex-CEO tells EU to let Oracle buy Sun - Some very valid points here. Lets hope [...]

Links of interest for 28 Aug 2009 - 1 Sep 2009:

Apache.org Compromised via stolen SSH keys - Best bit: "… we restored from a ZFS snapshot to a version of all our websites before any accounts were compromised." Now how's that for an advertisement for Solaris and ZFS?
Oracle is likely to sell sun’s hardware business [...]

Links of interest for 20 Jul 2009 - 15 Aug 2009:

HTML5 Canvas and Audio Experiment - This is a brilliant display of some of the cool things you can do in HTML5 (Requires a browser that supports HTML5 like Firefox 3.5)
How To Hijack ‘Every iPhone In The World’ - Oooops. Just as well I [...]

Links of interest for 12 May 2009 - 1 Jun 2009:

Sun Security Toolkit at OpenSolaris.org - The SST (aka JASS) is now open source (under CDDL) and available for OpenSolaris too.
Parallel Patching for Solaris 10 - Chris Armes’s Weblog - This is a godsend if you've got a system with a lot of zones that [...]

From the diary of ISC yesterday:
While I’m aware that ISC readers probably don’t have to be told, let’s nevertheless try again to get the word out: If you are running any SSH server open to the Internet, and your usernames and passwords aren’t at least 8 characters or so, your box is either owned by [...]

Links of interest for 6 Jan 2009 - 29 Jan 2009:

iWeb acquires the Sun Storage 7410 for its storage area network - It#039;s nice to see companies starting to promote the fact they#039;ve switched from a proprietary storage system to the Sun Storage 7000 range.
Understanding ZFS: Disk Space Discrepancies - I#039;ve seen this discrepency before, [...]

Just a quick heads up - Sun has issued a Security Alert about a vulnerability in IPv6 in Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris builds 101 - 107:
SunAlert: 251006
Title: A Security Vulnerability in Solaris IPv6 Implementation (ip6(7p)) May Cause a System Panic
An insufficient validation security vulnerability in the Solaris IPv6 implementation (ip6(7p)) may allow a remote privileged user [...]

Links of interest for 2 Dec 2008 - 8 Dec 2008:

Sun shows Microsoft how it’s done - Now I would never had predicted this: someone saying that Sun has done something on the desktop environment better than Microsoft. I must admit the Time Slider is pretty damn awesome and I think it may put [...]