OpenSSH 0day?

Posted by coldtobi | 21 Jul, 2009, 22:55

Agroup called (or telling to be) anti-sec claims that they have a 0-day for OpenSSH. (http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2009-July/069752.html)

But that the 0-day exists is doubted. (http://news.softpedia.com/news/Rogue-OpenSSH-0-Day-Exploit-Damages-Computers-117014.shtml)

We'll see...

(Note: be warned when reading full-disclosuer: There is a fake exploit "Open0wn" which is in fact a trojan-horse, tricking to run under root. It will then spawn a botnet and delete your filesystem. Never run and compile exploits unchecked!)

 



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Einmalnummer.de dead.

Posted by coldtobi | 7 Jul, 2009, 19:14

"Einmalnummer.de" was a project that helpes Webmasters to ensure their privacy: In Germany you have to put a phone number on your site (or you might get sued). And "Einmalnummer" (translated one-time number) was perfect to protect your privacy, as no call center was able to use that number that fast.

But these times are gone: It seems that a governmental agency (the one responsible to regulate telecommunication -- The Bundesnetzagentur) had objections against the services....

 



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Thecus N2100: Testing kernels

Posted by coldtobi | 1 Jul, 2009, 23:40

Some time ago, I wrote how to test a kernel on the Thecus (here).

As I did not update the kernel for some time, I decided  to update to 2.6.30. As usual, I wanted to try it before flasing it permanently. To enforce this, I do not have the package "flash-kernel" installed. But unfortunatly, this time the testing method did not work or the kernel did not boot...

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