Debian SSH keys insecure! Ubuntu also affected!
Posted by Anshu Prateek as linux, network, news, security bug
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00152.html
A weakness has been discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL on Debian and Ubuntu systems. As a result of this weakness, certain encryption keys are much more common than they should be, such that an attacker could guess the key through a brute-force attack given minimal knowledge of the system. […]
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Lost!!!
Posted by Anshu Prateek as Personal
LOST! My wallet. With all the usual contents. A couple of hundred bucks, my ID card, both the ATM cards couple of receipts and the wallet itself
Am gonna be stuck in a very precarious situation now. Have the cash in my account but can’t use the ATMs. been a real long time since […]
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Yahoo kicks off re-wiring project
Posted by Anshu Prateek as news, web
The re-wiring will make it easier for users to see what they do on Yahoo
Yahoo users will soon have one place where they can manage all the services they use on the popular website.
The company has begun a mammoth re-engineering project that will unify the disparate services Yahoo runs.
It hopes the project will […]
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OpenID n XRDS
Posted by Anshu Prateek as NITT, soc gsoc drupal, web
As my Google Summer of Code project, I have to work upon OpenID Attribute Exchange Implementation with drupal. While going through the code, I discovered something called XRDS (eXtensible Resource DescriptorS). Well, had heard of this sometime before while researching for my proposal but at that time I didn’t really need to go into details.
Well, […]
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SoC:)
Posted by Anshu Prateek as Personal, gsoc, news, web
Well finally the wait is over! Results are out. And am in
Well I had a more than confirmed news of it before hand as I had a conflict, i.e, two of my applications were being considered and I was asked to choose one which I ll like to work upon! And a further […]
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April 21: ~12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC
Posted by Anshu Prateek as NITT, Personal
Sigh! Thats the time when as per
http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_timeline, the results for gsoc 2008 will be announced!
Accepted student proposals will be announced on the Google Summer of Code home page.
Well am done with my practical exams for the sem, and after finishing up the tiny winy formalities now, or at the […]
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Borders…
Posted by Anshu Prateek as news, web
Read more of this here..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/regionalnews/story/2008/04/080412_pakistani_boys.shtml
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Computer viruses hit one million
Posted by Anshu Prateek as news, web
The number of viruses, worms and trojans in circulation has topped the one million mark.
The new high for malicious programs was revealed by security firm Symantec in the latest edition of its bi-annual Internet Security Threat Report.
The vast majority of these programs have been created in the last twelve months, said Symantec.
Cyber criminals pump out […]
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IBM races to make hi-tech memory
Posted by Anshu Prateek as arbit
Handheld gadgets storing thousands of hours of film footage could soon be a reality thanks to IBM scientists.
Researchers for the computer giant are working on a technology known as racetrack memory which uses tiny magnetic boundaries to store data.
In a paper in the journal Science, the team at IBM’s Almaden lab in California outline ways […]
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Yahoo to test Google AdSense; Microsoft objects
Posted by Anshu Prateek as network, news, web, web2.0
Wed Apr 9, 5:45 PM ET
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Yahoo, after years of battling Internet rival Google for online advertising, said Wednesday it would launch a limited test of Google’s AdSense for Search service.
The announcement drew a sharp response from Microsoft, which warned that a Yahoo-Google partnership would cover some 90 percent […]
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