Big Security Hole with Java6: Hacker can run any Exe/Dll with both IE and Firefox

April 16, 2010

On Friday April 9th Tavis Ormandy reported a major security hole on Java 6 which allows a hacker server to run any exe / dll on the victim’s pc. Surprisingly Oracle – now Sun’s owner – didn’t want to patch the hole before her regular lifecycle update every semester until Roger Thompson from AVG started the buzz about it.

So the patch is now available here.

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    Stop losing your time deleting spams on your blog !

    April 5, 2010
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    Have you been struggling with spams though you installed reputable anti-spam plugins like Askimet ? After several months of using Askimet I was still desperate. Askimet doesn’t really PREVENT spammers pro-actively, it only classify comments as spams or not. Though it did a good job at that, this is not the real efficient way from [...]

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    How To Set Up A Git Server On Windows with Gitolite

    April 3, 2010
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    I have never used Git but since it seems hot I intend to try. As I’m not a Linux Guy I want to do so on Windows. I know there are already some articles on how to setup a Git Server with Gitosis on Windows like the one by Mark Embling on Windows. But yesterday I [...]

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    How to build your own DropBox personal clone

    March 14, 2010
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    DropBox is a great time saver but it’s very limited in storage space. There seems to be no real other free alternative services (all online storage services don’t do automatic synchronisation and are not seamlessly integrated with the OS explorer). So why not look at opensource solutions ? There seems to be any ready-made one [...]

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