Category Archives: Security

BerliOS Hosting Site Hacked

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 1/13/2010
The BerliOS open source software portal was compromised and recently had its home page defaced, but no disclosure has been made on the site. Rather than seeing the news from BerliOS, users have had to find out through LWN and Heise. There's no information on the attack at all on the developer services page and there [...]
Also posted in Articles | Tagged , | Leave a comment

PostgreSQL addresses SQL injection vulnerabilities

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 5/24/2006
Quick story up on NewsForge about updates to PostgreSQL to address SQL injection vulnerabilities. If you're running PostgreSQL, you need to update (if you haven't already)! Doesn't look like Ubuntu has any packages yet, but I expect they'll be along shortly.
Also posted in Linux, Open Source, Writing | Leave a comment

Security is more than raw numbers and statistics

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 1/10/2006
The latest US-CERT security bulletin is getting a lot of press lately, most of it misguided. Joe Barr and I wrote a short piece (Joe Barr deserves most of the credit, I just added a few grafs...) trying to set the record straight when it comes to security vulnerabilities, which seems to have actually penetrated [...]
Also posted in Linux, Open Source | Leave a comment

  • Categories

  • Archives