PostgreSQL 8.3 has been realeased!
New features are better performance, introduction of new datatypes for xml, arrays and UUIDs, logging to csv format, etc…
References: Announcement Feature list Release notes
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Security
Vulnerability in TeamSpeak 2 server
Felix EhlersLast week I heard that the TeamSpeak Server is vulnerable to port 51234 attacks and already disabled it on our clanserver. Now there exists a non-public exploit, according to Heise Security. One solution is to either close that port as I did or update to the beta release. All Windows …
OpenBSD
sysjail redivivus: emulation, cleanliness, and completion
Felix Ehlerssysjail, sysjail.bsd.lv, is a user-land virtualisation system first released early last year. The primary goal of sysjail is to provide the functionality of FreeBSD's jail(8) to OpenBSD (and NetBSD) users. Since November, the project has quieted, but in the past few months I've had opportunity to fix …
Security
Scan This Guy's E-Passport and Watch Your System Crash
Felix EhlersA German security researcher who demonstrated last year that he could clone the computer chip in an electronic passport has revealed additional vulnerabilities in the design of the new documents and the inspection systems used to read them.
Lukas Grunwald, an RFID expert who has served as an e-passport consultant …
Apple
Leopard gets UNIX 03 certification
Felix EhlersOS X's commercial credentials recently got a major boost from the Open Group. Thanks to the efforts of Apple's OS boss Kevin Van Vechten and his team, Leopard has cleared all of the hurdles required to attain UNIX 03 certification. That places Apple in elite company. Only Sun, IBM and …