Imagine the following scenario: You can’t connect with VNC to your iMac/Mac Mini that runs Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The Screen Sharing service is not enabled. Anyway Remote Login via ssh is available. What can you do?
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Introduction for anti-virus signature creation
Felix EhlersHave you ever wondered how anti-virus signatures are created?
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Playstation 3 exploit released to the public
Felix EhlersGeorge 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.
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Squid vulnerable to DoS attack: issue in DNS handling
Felix EhlersDue to incorrect data validation Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted DNS packets.
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Avira malware extension stats for Jan 2010
Felix EhlersThe german antivirus company Avira has published statistics about file extensions used by malware in URLs that may occur in emails or infected websites for January 2010.