The Debian project is pleased to announce the second update of its stable distribution Debian 6.0 (codenamesqueeze). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustments to serious problems. Security advisories were already published separately and are referenced where available. Please note that this update does not constitute a new version of Debian 6.0 but only updates some of the packages included. There is no need to throw away 6.0 CDs or DVDs but only to update via an up-to-date Debian mirror after an installation, to cause any out of date packages to be updated. Those who frequently install updates from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included in this update. New installation media and CD and DVD images containing updated packages will be available soon at the regular locations. Upgrading to this revision online is usually done by pointing the aptitude (or apt) package tool (see the sources.list(5) manual page) to one of Debian's many FTP or HTTP mirrors. A comprehensive list of mirrors is available at:
After Ruling the WWW for 50 Long Days, LulzSec said now it's Interval time. Hacker group LulzSec has announced that after 50 days of hacking companies and organizations, it is finally done. Check out the message from LulzSec below, which was posted on Pastebin. LulzSec most recently released a torrent of data from Arizona law enforcement which included hundreds of classified documents including personal emails, names and phone numbers.
The group was also behind attacks on Sony, attacks on PBS, the US Senate, the CIA, and a slew of gaming sites popular with 4Chan users including EVE Online, Minecraft and League of Legends. LulzSec was thought to have been the source of hacks against Scotland Yards and the UK Census, but the group denied involvement. As the post, says the group of six hackers has been “disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could.”
While we were thinking that the announcement of 3.x branch was nothing more than Linus' mood swing, it seems there is more to it. Linus wrote on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, "3.0 will still be noticeably faster than 2.6.39 due to the other changes made (ie the read-ahead), so yes, the regression itself is fixed." The way Linus decided to announce the release of fist release candidate of Linux 3.0 was a classic example of Linus' sense of humour, "The whole renumbering was discussed at last years Kernel Summit, and there was a plan to take it up this year too. But let's face it - what's the point of being in charge if you can't pick the bike shed color without holding a referendum on it? So I'm just going all alpha-male, and just renumbering it. You'll like it." Linus earlier said that there was no major change in this release. This version comes with the usual two thirds driver changes, and a lot of random fixes.
Apple today released the second beta version of its iOS 5 mobile operating system to its iOS developer website, as well as the second beta of iTunes 10.5, which is needed to test one of iOS 5′s biggest new features: wireless syncing. And so far, the developer’s reviews give the new feature two big thumbs up. The build number of iOS 5 beta two is listed as 9A5248d. Apple has released a total of nine separate builds of the beta OS: three for iPad 2 (WiFi-only, GSM, CDMA), one for the original iPad, two for iPhone 4 (GSM, CDMA), one for iPhone 3GS and two for the iPod touch (third and fourth generation). No other devices will be able to run iOS 5 when its official release. (Sorry iPhone 3G users).
To use the new wireless syncing features, users must have the newest iOS 5, iTunes 10.5 beta 2, and a Mac running Mac OS X 10.6.8 or OS X Lion. Users must then connect their device to their Mac with a USB cable for the the very last time. This will allow them to choose the wireless sync option. Once that’s done, the USB can be stored safely away.
The iOS 5 beta 2 release also now allows any Apple ID to be used to create an iCloud account. (The beta 1 version required a MobileMe account.) A new version of iMessage is included in beta 2. And that version is not backward-compatible with the iMessage version in beta 1. Also, developers must take note that once the beta 2 version of iOS 5 is installed, they can only update to newer beta versions, and cannot revert back to the first beta version.
In addition to iOS 5 beta 2 and iTunes 10.5 beta 2, Apple also released a second beta version of AppleTV 2.0 software and a developer preview of XCode 4.2.
Apple will officially release iOS 5 to the public sometime this fall.
It's not as titillating as the time Microsoft added conversation view to Hotmail, but the outfit didjust freshen up its email service with a handful of helpful tweaks. Topping the list is an assortment of shortcuts, including the ability to right click a message to reply, reply all, or forward (you could already do this for other things, like marking something as unread). Hotmail also now responds to some additional Gmail- and Yahoo Mail-specific keyboard shortcuts, such as "#" for deleting messages -- a Gmail trick. And the company is none too subtle about admitting it wants the service to be user-friendly for folks if -- or when -- they switch from Google or Yahoo. Rounding out the batch of improvements, you get an easy way to recover deleted emails, an improved back button, HTML5-fueled speed improvements, and the option of changing your default font signature -- something we can't believe Hotmail has been missing until now. Hit the source link for the full spill, and find a short demo video after the break.
Electronic Arts (EA) said in an undated Q&A post on its site that no credit card data was compromised, nor was any other "sensitive information" like social security numbers. But information including user names, encrypted passwords, email addresses, mailing addresses, names, phone numbers, and birth dates may have been stolen, the company added. Add Electronic Arts to the ever-growing hack list. The video game maker revealed that hackers recently breached a server linked to a message board, stealing customer information in the process. The attack on the BioWare Neverwinter Nights message board server was "highly sophisticated and unlawful," Electronic Arts wrote, adding that the company had secured the affected server and was investigating the breach. A representative for Electronic Arts did not immediately respond to a request for comment on how many people were affected by the hack. For More Information Click Here
The affected website was for the program "Becoming American." Bentley says a "very small number" of administrative user names and encrypted passwords were stolen.PBS spokeswoman Anne Bentley says one section of a website in the PBS collection of sites was defaced Friday. PBS says its website has been hacked for at least the second time in a month - the latest in a string of intrusions into such sites as Sony, Lockheed Martin, Nintendo and others. At the end of May, hackers broke into the PBS website and posted a phony story claiming the late rapper Tupac Shakur was alive. A group that claimed responsibility complained about a recent "Frontline" investigation on Wikileaks.Arlington, Va.-based PBS says it has seen an increasing number of intrusion attempts recently.
Apparently retaliating for a recent Frontline program about WikiLeaks, the group, which calls itself @LulzSec or The Lulz Boat, also disclosed passwords and e-mail addresses held by PBS on the public bulletin board Pastebin.com.Shakur died in a shooting in Las Vegas in 1996. Smalls, whose real name was Christopher George Latore Wallace, was gunned down the following year in a Los Angeles drive-by shooting.By Monday morning, the fake story, which had appeared on The RunDown under the byline PBS WebTech, was gone. But a cached version remains available:"Prominent rapper Tupac has been found alive and well in a small resort in New Zealand, locals report. The small town - unnamed due to security risks - allegedly housed Tupac and Biggie Smalls (another rapper) for several years. One local, David File, recently passed away, leaving evidence and reports of Tupac's visit in a diary, which he requested be shipped to his family in the United States."A hacker group posted a bogus report on the PBS website on Saturday evening that claim slain rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls were actually alive and residing in New Zealand.
According to the Australian publication Secure Business Intelligence, LulzSec had earlier targeted Fox News and the X-Factor television show.
In explaining its motivation, "LulzSec" put out a statement:
"Greetings, Internets. We just finished watching WikiSecrets and were less than impressed. We decided to sail our Lulz Boat over to the PBS servers for further... perusing. As you should know by now, not even that fancy-ass fortress from the third shitty Pirates of the Caribbean movie (first one was better!) can withhold our barrage of chaos and lulz. Anyway, unnecessary sequels aside... wait, actually: second and third Matrix movies sucked too! Anyway, say hello to the insides of the PBS servers, folks. They best watch where they're sailing next time."
