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SQL Injection Exploits Wimbledon Tennis Tournament Site

In the past couple of weeks we have seen a serious increase in SQL injection attacks. Although Microsoft and HP have provided ample guidance and tools to solve the problem with, there are still sites out there that get infected. The latest web page to be attacked is the ATP site (short for Association for Tennis Professionals). With the Wimbledon tournament at full throttle, a growing amount of people is expected to visit the ATP web page and potentially get infected.

Fraser Howard, main virus researcher with Sophos (company that specializes in providing antispam and antivirus software solutions) comments: “With the Wimbledon tournament taking place at the moment, the ATP website will be receiving a spike in visitors - but any tennis fan visiting the infected pages on the site risks being served straight into a crook’s criminal racket.” (more…)

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July 4th, 2008 in Security |

HP contributes Tru64 Unix file system to Linux

Hewlett Packard on Monday said it is making its Tru64 Unix Advanced File System available under the open-source General Public License, version 2.

The AdvFS file system, which was originally developed for Digital Equipment Corp. Alpha Unix machines, can be adopted to Linux, the company said.

HP chose version 2 of the General Public License so that it could be compatible with the Linux kernel. The system can improve the uptime time and performance of Linux file systems, the company said.

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June 23rd, 2008 in Internet, Linux, OS, Site Review |