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Fleximus is now reachable via HTTPS

2009-10-06 Felix Ehlers

To support our visitors privacy I’m proud to announce that Fleximus can now be reached via HTTPS. Fleximus is using a StartSSL Class 1 certificate that is free of charge, thanks to StartCom Ltd, a startup from Israel.

Security update for FreeBSD

2009-10-05 Felix Ehlers

FreeBSD published a security advisory FreeBSD-EN-09:05.null due to a security vulnerability in the FreeBSD kernel.

Firefox with CSP now part of the preview builds

2009-10-04 Felix Ehlers

The Mozilla Security Blog has an article A Glimpse Into the Future of Browser Security that the CSF feature is now available in preview builds of Firefox. Content Security Policy is intentended to mitigate against the web application vulnerabilites XSS and CSRF which increased considerabely over the last few years. Grab a preview build of Firefox from the download page and help testing this new feature. The demo page has currently 11 individual tests if your browser supports CSP (showing PASS) or not (showing FAIL).

OpenBSD 4.6 postponed for a month to Nov 1

2009-09-18 Felix Ehlers

The release of OpenBSD 4.6 is unfortunately postponed to Nov 1 due to serious CD production problems. Theo de Raadt announced the delay on openbsd-misc today. The developers intended to bring out the release on Oct 1 because the tree was frozen earlier than normal. They are sorry about the dalay and stick to the traditional release date Nov 1 in the future.

DragonFly BSD 2.4 release available

2009-09-17 Felix Ehlers

DragonFly 2.4 is a major release that brings a lot of new features, as you can read in their release notes. There’s also a 64-bit experimental version available. It is preferred that you choose a mirror site for downloads, for example Avalon or chlamydia.