HOW TO FIND OUT IF YOU HAVE BEEN ROOTED:
ls -la /lib64/libkeyutils.so.1.9
rpm -qf /lib64/libkeyutils.so.1.9
ls -la /lib/libkeyutils.so.1.9
rpm -qf /lib/libkeyutils.so.1.9
If you find the file and RPM shows “is not owned by any package” you have been rooted.
Currently known affected OSes: RHEL-based servers
Currently known effected control panels: cPanel, DirectAdmin, and Plesk
we do not know if controls panels are the reason or not.
Servers with ksplice have been exploited
The team behind the Samba Project has released version 4.0 of its open source Windows interoperability software suite, the first version to offer full compatibility with Microsoft’s Active Directory protocols.
The Samba stack is by far the most popular solution for networking non-Microsoft platforms with Windows machines, but previous versions only provided Windows NT Domain Controller functionality.
According to the Samba Team’s press release, Samba 4 can now act as an Active Directory Domain Controller and offer services to any currently supported versions of client-side Windows, including Windows 8.
Servers running the new Samba support typical Active Directory features, including Group Policy and Roaming Profiles. They can also integrate with Microsoft Exchange servers, and they can even be managed using Microsoft’s own administration tools.
In addition, the new version offers full interoperability with Microsoft Active Directory servers. A Samba 4 server can be joined to an existing Active Directory domain, and Microsoft Active Directory Domain Controllers can join a Samba 4 server.
What all of this means is that for the first time, organizations have the option of replacing one or more Microsoft Active Directory servers – currently priced starting at $501 apiece for the small business version and scaling up to the Moon – with alternatives based on 100 per cent free software, via Samba 4.0 running on Linux or some other free OS.
via Samba 4 arrives with full Active Directory support • The Register.
Your vendors card reader taken over by a rogue credit card. I’ve seen this on tv but never thought it was for real. This is why i constantly tell folks to update EVERYTHING they can…even card readers now are computers running..Linux. However there was a vulnerability in the app for the reader which allowed any firmware update to be installed… without checking for authenticity. Simply swiping a card told the reader to go download a new reader software that not only read the cards but also sent the data to the thieves at this large chain.
Thieves Hack Barnes & Noble Point-of-Sale Terminals at 63 Stores | Threat Level | Wired.com.
I mentioned in an earlier post about how Quickbooks ties many accountants to Windows. Well I’ve found a partial yet money-saving workaround. We leverage virtualization even more but not in the typical way. Instead of setting up a NAS/DAS/SAN you run it off local stoarge. For SMB’s this saves on costs both short and long run. Allow me to explain:
First you need to figure out exactly how many of your employees actually do work inside of Quickbooks at the same time. Not on the same files at the same time but how many of them actually are actively using Quickbooks at the same time. I bet it’s not even half of your employees. For the sake of math let’s say you have 15 employees. Here’s what you do next:
You buy a new virtualization host server. You then fire up only that amount of windows virtual machines on that server. Once that is done you then convert all machines to Linux. Providing printing is solved(which it can be) you only need to pay for 7 windows licenses and 7 Quickbooks licenses. Considering Linux is free your software costs hit the floor and then burrow underneath it..:) Now instead of constantly replacing hardware to put up with QB and windows bloat you just let them sit on the virtual machines. Your hardware lasts longer due to not needing to be replaced every 3-5 years for the latest windows environment cycle and you buy much less software. of course if your cloudy apps hammer your cpu that’s where individual cpu (maybe motherbaords too)upgrades come into play(aka whiteboxes anyone?). I’m not going to go into specifics on how i would build my vm host for this..if you want to know contact me for a discussion and quote.
This is what i thought. A jury in Silicon Valley with bias towards Apple(seeing Jobs as nearly a deity) has now been seen by their own words as stepping outside the bounds of not only their instructions but also of their own “expertise”. this jury verdict would be tossed on those grounds alone. Samsung…if their lawyers rate their bar certifications) should also be able to get this tossed on the ignoring of prior art. this verdict was bogus from the beginning in many(but not all areas) and it looks like it was done only to keep Apple’s ‘reality distortion field” intact.
One of the jurors, Manuel Ilagan, said it only took a day to decide that Samsung had wronged Apple. But it could not decide about the prior art issues, which was a corner stone of Samsung’s defence. The jury decided that these “prior art” issues were getting in the way of letting Apple win.
This was where Hogan stepped in and solved the problem with his experience of patents. Before he did so the jury was having trouble believing that there wasn’t something out there before Apple. However Hogan’s answer was to ignore prior art and focus on the patent and whether Samsung had broken it.
As Hogan said to Bloomberg when he got into the case he started looking at the patents as if they were his and how he could defend them. This is not normally the way you try a court case. If that were the case a jury would be asked to imagine they are the victim and you have to come up with a way to lock your accused up.
Ilagan said that it meant that the jury could go faster as all this prior art nonsense was bogging the jury down. The jury’s inhouse experts did not have to decide if Apple invented the rounded rectangle, it just had to work out if Samsung had made a rounded rectangle.
Reuters quoted Hogan as saying that the jury wanted to send a message to Samsung which was not just a slap on the wrist.
“We wanted to make sure it was sufficiently high to be painful, but not unreasonable.”
He claimed that the jurors could decide on these matters because a few had engineering and legal experience, which helped with the complex problems in play.
Now the main problem with his quote was it means that the jury was wilfully ignoring the jury instructions. It was written there that damages are not supposed to punish, merely to compensate for losses. It seems that the jury did not read them because a few of them considered themselves experts.
via Comment: Apple versus Samsung verdict was a complete mess – Jury ignored prior-art | TechEye.
I’m not a huge fan of the cloud. It is based on simply refarmed mainframe technology and based on a broken security model. However for those who really make the jump to a truly all cloud system there’s one major benefit. Your desktop software costs go to zero…literally. Allow me to explain.
If you truly decide that you are going to go everything in the cloud(and I mean browser based clouds not one you need to run a program that connects to the cloud) then you no longer have to deal with Microsoft. This also means you don’t have to buy 350 dollar Office suites anymore either. Also all of your other desktop software? Also zero. How do we operate then with our towers and whatnot? I have one word for you:
LINUX
I know that sends shockwaves but it’s not crazy talk. Guess what runs most of the home routers? How about your HDTV? Guess what runs nearly 25% of the high powered core routers in the world? Linux or BSD. Linux is in more places than you think. It’s free, efficient, stable, and very flexible and secure by nature. Almost half of the cell phones in the world are powered by Linux(andriod) while nearly the other half is powered by it’s cousin BSD UNIX(IOS). What if your cloud doesn’t have an Office Suite? The answer is Libreoffice which runs even better under Linux than Windows.
I have a client that is merging with a firm that is nearly 100% cloud based. There’s only three things holding him back from converting fully to Linux once the move to the cloud is completed:
1. Quickbooks cloud just sucks right now
2. No viable replacement for Quickbooks in any form that I am aware of
3. Printer compatibility.
That’s it. The Linux printing can be solved though..I just haven’t started the research yet. Brands like HP and Lexmark are widely known for good Linux support…:) Microsoft can’t command the same prices for their stuff in the cloud…folks won’t pay it. As long as your cloud vendor isn’t charging excessive money then loosing Microsoft on the desktop is now a real option for many businesses.
Since Mountain Lion isn’t going to work on my macbook I’m going to go a different route. No dual booting here..going to run Ubuntu Linux on it..:)
Eolas has already won millions from Microsoft for Office. This has now fueled their appetite for more since Microsoft tried the appeasement route and settled. Whether with guns or software patents terrorists should be destroyed..not appeased. This could have huge implications on the web as we know it today.
Patent troll claims ownership of interactive Web—and might win.
If you are only doing books then the kindle and nook work great…but they are only for either Amazon(kindle) or Barnes and Noble(the nooks). I would recommend you go with a full function tablet if you want to do anything more. You can get amazon apps for all things Amazon and Barnes and noble apps for those vendors as well. You also then have the Android market(something the Kindles and Nooks do NOT have access to) to flesh out the rest of whatever you want to do. Right now the Samsung galaxy tab, Motorola xoom, and the Asus transformer (transformer prime) are the front runners.
