Category Archives: Security

BerliOS Hosting Site Hacked

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Joe Brockmeier

The BerliOS open source software portal was compromised and recently had its home page defaced, but no disclosure has been made on the site. Rather than seeing the news from BerliOS, users have had to find out through LWN and … Continue reading →

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PostgreSQL addresses SQL injection vulnerabilities

Posted on May 24, 2006 by Joe Brockmeier

Quick story up on NewsForge about updates to PostgreSQL to address SQL injection vulnerabilities. If you’re running PostgreSQL, you need to update (if you haven’t already)! Doesn’t look like Ubuntu has any packages yet, but I expect they’ll be along … Continue reading →

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Security is more than raw numbers and statistics

Posted on January 10, 2006 by Joe Brockmeier

The latest US-CERT security bulletin is getting a lot of press lately, most of it misguided. Joe Barr and I wrote a short piece (Joe Barr deserves most of the credit, I just added a few grafs…) trying to set … Continue reading →

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