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Red Hat’s Gluster gets a community project forge

The GlusterFS distributed filesystem community is expanding to take in a range of other storage-related, and generally Gluster-related, projects. The change was announced by Red Hat, who acquired Gluster Inc, the company behind the…

Linux kernel 3.9 finalised and released

Linus Torvalds has released Linux kernel 3.9. The latest version of the kernel now has a device mapper target which allows a user to setup an SSD as a cache for…

Buffer Overflow | Direct Stack Base: Ability Server Exploit

Ability FTP server suffering from stack base buffer overflow, this demonstration show you the easiest way through steps This demonstration is part from: Buffer Overflow tutorial — Part 2:…

Android app hacks virtual aeroplanes

Hugo Teso is a security expert as well as a trained pilot. At the Hack in the Box security conference in Amsterdam, Teso demonstrated what happens when someone combines these two fields and does three…

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012/04/2013
Massive Brute-force attack Targets WordPress sites worldwide

A large distributed brute force attack against WordPress sites is understood to be occurring. A large botnet with more than 90,000 servers is attempting to log in by cycling through…
022/02/2013
[Slae] Shellcoding Basics

Description: The SecurityTube Linux Assembly Expert (SLAE) is an online course and certification which focuses on teaching the basics of 32-bit assembly language for the Intel Architecture (IA-32) family of processors…
022/02/2013
Certified online banking trojan in the wild

Jean-Ian Boutin, who works for AV firm Eset, has discovered trojans that carry a valid digital signature. This potentially allows online banking spyware to pass superficial tests as harmless. Apparently,…
022/02/2013
RHEL 6.4 has Hyper-V drivers and Windows 2012 certification

Version 6.4 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), which has just been released, now includes RHEL6 drivers and userland software that makes the Linux distribution run faster and better as a guest on Microsoft’s Hyper-V…
020/02/2013
Fedora 18 nVidia Drivers Install / Uninstall Guide

This is guide, howto install nVidia proprietary drivers on Fedora 18 “Spherical Cow” and disable Nouveau driver. This guide works with GeForce 8/9/200/300/400/500 series cards (and currently also with GeForce…
017/01/2013
RHEL 5.9 clones arrive from CentOS and Oracle

CentOS 5.9 and Oracle Linux 5.9 are now available. Both these Linux distributions are available free of charge and are based on the sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.9, which was…
009/01/2013
Red Hat Announces General Availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9

Raleigh NC, Global, January 8, 2013 Minor Release of Leading Open Source Enterprise Platform Exemplifies Red Hat Commitment to 10-year Lifecycle, Introduces Several New Features and Updates Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:…
028/12/2012
Ubuntu based Pentesting OS for Mobiles

Most of the crazy readers always demand for some solution to turn their Android Smartphone into a Hacking Machine. There are various solutions, like installing some penetration testing android based…
028/12/2012
Install Google Chrome on Fedora 18/17, CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 6.3

This howto explains howto install Google Chrome Web browser on Fedora 18/17/16/15/14/13/12, CentOS 6.3/6.2/6.1/6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.3/6.2/6.1/6. Best way to install and keep up-to-date with Google Chrome browser is use Google’s own…