Many bloggers complained that their posts begin appearing in reversed orders after their webhost upgraded to MySQL 5.0.5x. This is caused by a bug in the MySQL database server affecting versions 5.0.50, 5.0.51 and 5.0.51a (MySQL Bug #30596). The bug can be reproduced by any SQL Select command that couples both GROUP BY and ORDER BY [...]
In a rather embarassing incident, the main ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) server in Antioch University was broken in and about 60,000 students, former and current employers were compromised. The intrusion was due to the administrator’s failure to patch a critical flaw in the FTP daemon of the Sun Solaris server.
Unlike most other boring Patch Tuesdays, Microsoft released a rather interesting eye-catching “patch” yesterday called “Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (KB948881)“. The security update is actually a registry hack that disables the critically flawed Yahoo! Music Jukebox ActiveX control that if exploited, the remote attacker could gain control over your computer. Despite Yahoo! prompt action in [...]
Adobe has issued a security advisory dated 8th of April 2008 for Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0 and all versions below. The security flaw could allow remote code execution on compromised systems. This vulnerability affects Adobe Flash Players on ALL platforms. Users are reminded to update the affected software immediately by visiting Adobe’s website.
I’m proud to announce that TheBits.info is now being served by a popular free DNS service, EveryDNS.Net. Until this evening, TheBits.info was served by eNom Inc’s default name servers, which readers often complain to be slow and unreliable. Thank you so much to Michael for suggesting it and Caric for his authority :p