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Apple TV gets a security update
News Six patches address buffer overflows and arbitrary code execution. Apple TV devices are set to automatically detect and download the update within a week.
Tags: Security, Apple Inc., Apple QuickTime, TV, Buffer-overflow, Application Termination, Issue, Arbitrary Code Execution, Apple TV, Update
Georgia accuses Russia of coordinated cyberattack
News The Georgian Embassy in the United Kingdom has accused Russia of launching cyberattacks to coincide with military hostilities over the weekend.
Tags: Security, Georgia, Spokesperson, Europe, Russia, denial of service, researcher, Cyberattack, Web Site, HTTP
Sans Institute warns of cookie-stealing threat
News The security body says information has been released about the CookieMonster exploit that may facilitate the stealing of cookies from encrypted browser sessions.
Tags: Security, Web sites, Web browsers, Cookie, TCP, Web Browser, SANS Institute, Training, Vulnerability, IP
Configure Apache to support multiple SSL sites on a single IP address
Techguide With Apache 2.2.12 and support for the Server Name Indication extension to the SSL protocol, you can configure name-based HTTPS sites, just as you can name-based HTTP sites.
Tags: Open source, Web servers, Apache Software Foundation, SNI, SSL, Site, Web Browser, IP, IP Address, OpenSSL
Flash cookies: What's new with online privacy
Techguide If you thought refusing HTTP cookies prevented tracking, think again. Web site developers have found a way.
Tags: Web sites, Privacy, Cookie, Online Privacy, Web Browser, behavioral targeting, Michael Kassner, Mozilla Firefox, researcher, Web Site
Google's SPDY protocol could ramp up Web speeds
News Researchers at Google are playing with a new Web protocol that could theoretically decrease the time it takes to load a Web page by a significant amount.
Tags: Programming languages, Protocols and platforms, Google Inc., SPDY, Web Page, Web Browser, Web Server, Google Chrome, Server, TechCrunch
OpenAmplify developer's diary Part 1: Making the request
Techguide Justin James chronicles his process of using Hapax's OpenAmplify Web service to create an application which can match documents that have similar content or is identical to the source document.
Tags: Web services, Protocols and platforms, LINQ, Simple Object Access Protocol, WSDL, OpenAmplify Developer, Web Browser, Dividend, client system, Developer
Microsoft warns of new server vulnerability
News Software maker says an unpatched flaw in its Web-serving software could offer a hole for malicious code to attack systems.
Tags: Servers, Hacking, Authentication, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft IIS Server, Vulnerability, HTTP Request, Server, information service, Web Site
Report: Attackers exploit IIS hole to breach university server
News Indiana university hit by attackers exploiting a hole in Microsoft Internet Information Services software.
Tags: Hacking, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft IIS Server, Security, Indiana, Apple iWeb, HTTP Request, Server, Attacker, e-mail
Subversion with ViewVC
Techguide Here's a walk-through of the basics of Web-based ViewVC, which is a Web-frontend to both subversion and Concurrent Versions System.
Tags: Open source, Software engineering/development, Repository, Apache Software Foundation, Web Browser, Concurrent Versions System, Tool, ViewVC, Subversion, HTTPS
SSL: Broken even more
Techguide Lately, security conferences have been bad news for SSL. At this year's Black Hat, independent security guru Moxie Marlinspike explained how he was able to completely bypass SSL security.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Security Management, Data security, PC security, SSL, Web Page, Web Browser, SHA-1, Moxie Marlinspike, SSLstrip
VMware patches hypervisor bugs
News The virtualization company has released a new security advisory and patch, and re-released two advisories with new patches, to address security flaws in its software.
Tags: Virtualization, Security, VMware Inc., Hypervisor, Server, patch management, buffer-overflow vulnerability, Perl, blog, HTTP
Flaw turns Gmail into spamming machine
News A "serious security flaw" in Gmail allows spammers to send thousands of bulk e-mail messages through Google's SMTP service, according to a recent report.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Data security, Security, Google Inc., Internet Access, Spamming, Information Security, Flaw, e-mail, spam filtering
Georgian president suffers cyberattack
News Political tensions with Russia have been blamed for distributed-denial-of-service attacks against the Georgian president's Web site.
Tags: Security, Attack, Georgia, Russia, security company, network, researcher, Internet Storm Center, blog, Cyberattack
Moving to other pages in ASP.NET
Techguide ASP.NET provides a few ways to move to different pages. Here’s a look at the options.
Tags: Web browsers, Web servers, .NET, Security, Page, Web Browser, Method, C#, HTTP Request, .NET
