Day: 16 December 2009
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Adobe security issues – again
A new 0-day vulnerability has been found in Adobe Reader and Acrobat – this time relating to how the 2 products handle Javascript. The only ‘fix’ at the moment is to turn Javascript off in these products. Or don’t open email you get from unexpected sources. Let’s see how long Adobe take to fix this…
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Open Source in 2009
2009 has been a very big year for FOSS with a number of high-profile occurrences and products being released this year. Let’s take a short look at some of these: the release of Canonical’s Ubuntu 9.10 as well as Red Hat’s KVM-orientated RHEL 5.4 the submission of code twice by Microsoft into the open source…
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Australia and the net filter
The Australian government have gone public with their China-style Internet filter which includes the following measures: mandatory ISP-level filtering of Refused-Classification-rated content a grants program to encourage introduction of optional filtering by ISPs, to block additional content requested by households an expansion of an existing cyber-security program run by the government to improve education and…
