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Have you ever wondered how anti-virus signatures are created?
In his article An Intro to Creating Anti-Virus Signatures the author describes three types of signature detections:
Though the article focusses primarily on Microsoft portable executable files like .exe, .dll and .sys, it would be possible …
This release resolves a critical security issue where the PHP interpreter can hang on a string to double conversion if x87 FPU registers are internally used. This DoS vulnerability is reported as PHP bug #53632 and CVE-2010-4645.
To verify if your system is also affected, you can use this script …
OpenBSD 4.7 has been released!
A look at the release page reveals that this release offers wider platform support, new drivers and improvements over existing ones, filesystem midlayer improvements.
George Hotz alias geohot released his playstation 3 exploit to the public. It gains control of the hypervisor which could be used to run pirated PS3 games and game backups on the hacked machine.
You can find more details in his blog and also an article which explains what the …
