Ryan Naraine

The Samba Project has issued a fix for a pair of buffer overflow flaws that could lead to a malicious system compromise. The flaws, which have been rated by research firm Secunia as “moderately critical,” affect Samba versions 2.x and Samba 3.x. Both issues have been fixed in Samba 3.0.5, which can be downloaded here. […]

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has added an IPv6 nameserver address to the Internet’s DNS root server system, a move that promises to solve the possible shortage of IP addresses. IPv6 , or Internet Protocol next generation (IPng) , is designed to overcome the shortcomings of IPv4 by adding tightened security […]

Instant messaging software firm Jabber has outlined plans for an XMPP-to-SIP Gateway that opens the door for interoperability with IBM’s Lotus IM product. The Jabber move to connect with Big Blue’s instant messenger comes less than a week after Microsoft announced it would open its enterprise-focused Live Communications Server 2005 (LCS 2005) to chat networks […]

Credit card giant MasterCard was among a slew of online financial institutions rushing to fix Web site design flaws that put users at risk of phishing attacks. After British researcher Sam Greenhalgh posted demos of cross-site scripting and script-injection flaws on sites run by MasterCard, Barclaycard, Natwest and WorldPay, the financial firms moved to plug […]

Exploit code for a known security flaw in Microsoft Windows 2000 has been posted online, putting millions of users at risk of a PC hijack. Less than a week after Microsoft released a fix for an “important” privilege elevation vulnerability in the Windows 2000 Utility Manager feature, hackers have reverse-engineered the patch and released the […]

A 20-year-old Northern California man suspected as being one half of the high-profile “Deceptive Duo” hacking team is scheduled to appear in court on Monday to face charges of breaking into government computers and defacing government Web sites. Robert Lyttle, who allegedly teamed up with 22-year-old Benjamin Stark and hacked into computer systems run by […]

The open-source PHP Group has released a fix for a pair of security holes that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on remote PHP servers. The flaws affect PHP versions 4.3.7 and prior and version 5.0.0RC3 and prior. The final version of PHP 5.0, which was released earlier this week, is not affected. Fixes […]

The big three instant messaging providers will start chatting with each other, sort of. In a deal that breathes new life into the struggling business instant messaging space and raises hopes for full IM interoperability, Microsoft announced it would open its enterprise-focused Live Communications Server 2005 (LCS 2005) to chat networks run by rivals America […]

Weblog tools vendor Six Apart has announced the acquisition of French blog software firm Ublog, a deal that opens the door to the potentially lucrative European market. Six Apart, the company behind the popular Movable Type and TypePad platforms, said the Ublog acquisition will form part of Six Apart EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), a […]

Microsoft has released an updated Trojan detection and removal tool to help PC users clean up after the sophisticated malware attack that loaded keystroke loggers and other malicious code on infected systems. The 118 KB removal tool has been programmed to remove the payload delivered by the server-side Download.Ject Trojan. The Download.Ject Trojan, also known […]

Microsoft’s Tuesday released a batch of seven security patches, including two for “critical” vulnerabilities found in the Windows Task Scheduler and HTML Help features. As part of its monthly patch release cycle, the software giant warned that the Task Scheduler contains a buffer overflow that puts users at risk of computer takeover. “If a user […]

Symantec’s push into the red-hot spam-fighting market got another boost this week with its $28 million acquisition of TurnTide, a company known for its spam-routing technology. The deal comes less than two months after Symantec shelled out $370 million to acquire anti-spam and anti-virus specialist Brightmail to enhance its enterprise product line-up. TurnTide, which was […]