PHP Safe Mode Bypass Weakness Uncovered in error_log

July 13th, 2006 Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Ruby, which can be exploited to bypass safe level protection and replace methods called in trusted level as well as close untainted directory streams. 1. An error in the handling of the "alias" functionality can be exploited to bypass the safe level protection and replace methods called in the trusted level.

May 3rd, 2006 The security vulnerabilities addressed are: Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting, Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information and Denial of Service. Ubuntu has issued an update for thunderbird.

April 24th, 2007 Following three simple steps now you can get rid of the pesky and sometimes buggy Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) notifications: 1. Reboot Windows in safe mode (hold the f8 key while booting and you will get the option to boot in safe mode) and then: 2.

July 1st, 2007 Rapidshare is a popular site for sharing files. With free access you can only download 1 file per hour.

November 18th, 2007 AlienBlaster is a refreshing open source shoot-the-aliens game with various levels and an arcade mode. It is available on Windows, Linux, OS/2 & eComStation, Mac OSX (DarwinPorts), MorphOS and AmigaOS4.

September 18th, 2005 In PHP you can register a function to be executed when script processing is complete using register_shutdown_function. In PHP 4.0.6 and below the registered shutdown functions are called after the request has been completed, including sending any output buffers.

March 17th, 2006 In order to deal with both old tag soup written to old browser quirks and new standards-compliant pages, Mozilla (and Mozilla-based browsers), Mac IE 5, Windows IE 6, Safari, Opera 7 and Konqueror 3.2 have two main layout modes. In one mode the layout engine attempts to render conforming pages according the CSS and HTML recommendations.

September 3rd, 2006 I just had quite some experience using WordPress 2.x's new WYSIWYG editor based on Tiny MCE, while publishing documentation for 3 column Anaconda Theme for WordPress. Two word summary of WYSIWYG editor: it sucks.

June 20th, 2007 Attorney General Jim Hood said his office is reviewing 162 identifiable records of registered Missisippi sex offenders provided by MySpace. "MySpace has assured us that the sex offenders they reported to us have been removed from the site," said Hood.

August 10th, 2006 Researchers at Cardiff University have uncovered a flaw in HSBC's online banking security process that has left over three million customer accounts vulnerable to attack over the last two years. The researchers found that anyone using the attack would have guaranteed access to an account with at most nine tries.

August 31st, 2006 If you, like me, have lots of Firefox tab open at the same time then this extension is a must have. It allows you to easily view all your tabs with a simple key - F12.

July 26th, 2006 I have seen myriad errors when executing java task. For example I have seen: javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError?: Provider org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl? not found when executing the java task in jdk1.5.0 The problems with debugging the errors is that the commandline used by java task is not visible, even in verbose mode.

January 20th, 2009 No cookies, no cache, no History. Google Chrome offers a cool way to browse Internet without any history stowed on your PC.

February 17th, 2005 ChoicePoint is working with the California authorities on this, assuming that the impact is on Californian residents only. However security experts diasgree.

October 26th, 2006 I have been in an interesting discussion with a very high profile client when Google Search came up. One recurring thought which came up was how the apparent strength of Google search, that made it the number one search engine, is its very weakness in several industries.