Attack Code Published For DNS Vulnerability
Original post provide by Slashdot: ITget_Rootin writes “That didn’t take long. ZDNet is reporting that HD Moore has released exploit code for Dan Kaminsky’s DNS cache poisioning vulnerability into the point-and-click Metasploit attack tool. From the article: ‘This exploit caches a single malicious host entry into the target nameserver. By causing the target nameserver to query for random hostnames at the target domain, the attacker can spoof a response to the target server including an answer for the query, an authority server record, and an additional record for that server, causing target nameserver to insert the additional record into the cache.’ Here’s our previous Slashdot coverage.”
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The Right Time For Real Time Java
Faced with the demands of mission-critical applications, many enterprise developers have pushed the Java language and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to the limit. The most common issue seen in transactional environments is achieving predictable response time or latency - in other words, the time it takes the system to respond to a request or to move a transaction through the IT infrastructure.
Time For VMWare To Change Its Pricing Model
VMWare rode the initial wave of the virtualization revolution, producing high quality software to allow you to run and maintain multiple operating systems on one host. They were largely uncompeted for a number of years, but now that the computing world has decided that virtualization is indeed here to stay and will shape our landscape, a number of competitors have appeared, including solutions from Microsoft.
Cloud Computing Firm Closes $1.5m Series A
10gen announced $1.5 million in Series A financing from Union Square Ventures. The cloud computing company, founded earlier this year by DoubleClick veterans Kevin Ryan, Dwight Merriman and Eliot Horowitz, and former Joost engineering VP, Geir Magnusson Jr., aims to provide significant time and cost saving advantages by allowing developers to focus on solving business problems and delivering functionality rather than expending effort on infrastructure, scaling and system management.
Emulex To Provide HBA Virtualization Technology For Solaris Environments
Emulex announced that its LightPulse Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), available from Sun as the Sun StorageTek Enterprise Class 4Gb/s PCI Express HBA, now offer Virtual HBA technology within Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) environments. Enhanced capabilities such as virtual port management, available via Emulex's next generation HBAnyware management suite, are designed to enhance the overall functionality of Solaris Containers.
Tripwire ConfigCheck Now Assesses VMware ESX 3.0 Hypervisor Virtualization Configurations To Improve Security
Tripwire announced the availability of Tripwire ConfigCheck for VMware ESX 3.0. Tripwire ConfigCheck is a free utility that assesses configuration settings for VMware ESX 3.0 and 3.5 hypervisors, determines potential configuration risks, and provides prescriptive remediation advice so that administrators can ensure greater security.
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Researchers Create Highly Predictive Blacklists
The service, called Highly Predictive Blacklisting, exploits the relationships between networks that have been attacked by similar Internet sources as a means for predicting which attack sources are likely to attack which networks in the future. A free experimental version is currently available."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Obanner
It can add one or more regular banner images with link URL and a time limit date. If time limit was not reached, it returns the HTML to display the banner image as a link. Otherwise it returns the HTML to display a default banner image and a default link.
Xml_to_from_array
Package: xml_to_from_array Summary: Generate XML documents from arrays and vice-versa Groups: XML Author: Mozart Fazito Rezende Description: This class can be used to convert between XML documents and arrays. It can take an nested associative array and generate a XML document.
XML To From Array
Package: XML to from array Summary: Generate XML documents from arrays and vice-versa Groups: PHP 5, XML Author: Mozart Fazito Rezende Description: This class can be used to convert between XML documents and arrays. It can take an nested associative array and generate a XML document.
Zend Framework 1.6 Release Candidate 1
La version 1.6 de Zend Framework est disponible au téléchargement. Parmi les principales évolutions, on trouve par exemple : Intégration du framework javascript Dojo SOAP : SOAP server, SOAP client, autodiscovery, WSDL access, WSDL generation Aperçu du "Tooling Project" encore à l'étude Tests unitaires Harness (controllers) Support du format Lucene 2.3 Composant Paginator Support Text/Figlet ...