We downloaded and are streaming (bit torrent) all six of the working torrents for the latest Ubuntu, Natty Narwhale, which was released this week. The main download page is here: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download and you can find alternate means of downloading here: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/alternative-download. If you have not tried Ubuntu and would like to see it without changing your computer, download the appropriate file and burn it to CD-ROM to make a Live CD that you can try without altering your computer. You can make a USB boot drive once the CD is booted, which will run faster than the CD runs.
Month: April 2011
Interesting Snipits 20110414
Several articles of interest, dealing with a longer range electric car, an actual implementation of GMail Motion using an XBox Kinect, and a way to unlock secret gestures in Apple iOS 4.3.
Cloud Services Breached, data stolen, at Epsilon
Individuals supplying their own information on a at-risk foreign server is one thing — and consumers are foolish — but placing customer data or private corporate data “in the cloud” is just asking for Sarbanes-Oxley trouble. Here is how to protect yourself.
Lisa Moon XSS over 1 million web sites infected
Bottom line people — turn off javascript by default. Turn it on manually for each web site you know and trust, such as your bank. If everyone had their javascript turned off by default, this XSS attack would be ineffective. From http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/LizaMoon-Mass-SQL-Injection-Attack-Escalates-Out-of-Control-378108 It is worth a quick read to stay on top of things. What…