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Google created a new systems language, the Go Programming Language.
The language is a mix between C/C++ and a dynamically typed language like Python/Javascript. The language has a garbage-collector and avoids the overhead of C-style include files and libraries which results in fast compile times for large projects …
Lighttpd 1.4.24 is out which brings TLS SNI support, connection state handling and improved FastCGI code. Also a lot of bugs were fixes.
Have a look at the release announcement for a full list of changes.
Matthieu Bouthors from #IHTeam.net has discovered that squidGuard 1.4 is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflow attacks. An attacker might for example use a buffer closely to 4096 characters to bring squidGuard into emergency mode and bypass all filter rules.
SquidGuard is an url filtering software which is often …
Mozilla blogs about the security updates for Firefox 3.5.4 and 3.0.15 which are now available for download.
The release notes for Firefox 3.5.4 shows that this release contains 11 security fixes and 6 are critical. All users are encourages to install this security update …
The FreeBSD Foundation announced pleasently the new funded FreeBSD HAST project.
The software will be a file system and software independant synchronous replication which operates on the block-level in a cluster environment. It works over TCP/IP and can use any GEOM providers. Pawel Dawidek has been awarded to implent …
