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RedHat gets hit this time…
It just goes to show, if you think you’re safe, you’re not. This time RedHat was hit: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1784&tag=nl.e550 This is pretty ugly since it involves the signing of certificates used to validate the RPM repositories and RPMs themselves. RedHat claims that the “passphrase“s for the certificates weren’t compromised, so no harm no foul. However it’s…
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Brilliant article with x-Hannaford CIO
StorefrontBacktalk has a short but brilliant article with the former CIO, Bill Homa, of Hannaford grocery chain who suffered a major breach of credit card data: http://storefrontbacktalk.com/story/071108homa There are three particular points that stand out: That Microsoft is still so hole ridden as to put your company at additional risk. That PCI is still not…
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Pretty cool Google tool…
I’m not sure how useful this would actually be in practice, but this “Goosh” or “Google Shell” is a pretty neat trick: http://goosh.org which is an unofficial command line tool to access Google. For those of us Unix types, it’s fun to see it presented this way, though as noted I’m not sure how useful…
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BIND DNS “replacement” released
NLnet Labs, Verisign, Nominet, and Kerei have announced the release of a new DNS server to potentially replace ISC’s BIND: http://www.unbound.net/ Built from the ground up, it’s supposed to be faster and more secure, in part supporting DNSSEC out of the box. Of course as with all new software, it remains to be seen if…
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Another one bites the dust…
It’s a little sad, yet another Linux holdout has fallen to the Microsoft world: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7402365.stm In some sense it’s probably a good thing – much as I like Linux, the world is run on Microsoft and getting used to its interface is probably more useful to children than Linux. On the other hand, a lot…