DaemonForums - News http://www.daemonforums.org// News regarding BSD and related. en Thu, 23 May 2013 13:13:30 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.daemonforums.org/images/misc/rss.jpg DaemonForums - News http://www.daemonforums.org// SQLite gets memory-mapped I/O http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7910&goto=newpost Wed, 22 May 2013 19:28:06 GMT From http://h-online.com/-1867275 ---Quote--- SQLite, the ubiquitous, lightweight, C-based SQL engine, which is embedded in many applications,... From http://h-online.com/-1867275

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SQLite, the ubiquitous, lightweight, C-based SQL engine, which is embedded in many applications, has been updated to SQLite version 3.7.17 with support for memory-mapped I/O which could potentially double performance and use less RAM. The new functionality adds xFetch() and xUnfetch() methods which are automatically called if memory-mapped I/O is activated, to map the data into memory.
]]> News J65nko http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7910 QEMU 1.5: GPU pass-through and ARM support http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7908&goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 17:52:18 GMT From http://h-online.com/-1866327 ---Quote--- The recently released QEMU 1.5 supports virtualisation with KVM on the Cortex A15 series of ARM... From http://h-online.com/-1866327

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The recently released QEMU 1.5 supports virtualisation with KVM on the Cortex A15 series of ARM cores. Another new addition is an experimental feature for passing through graphics chips from the host to the guest via VFIO; however, the feature is currently only thought to work reliably with some of the graphics chips. Both features rely on Linux kernel support that became available with Linux 3.9.
]]> News J65nko http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7908 Continuous database migration with Liquibase and Flyway http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7907&goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 08:35:49 GMT From http://h-online.com/-1860080

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An application's version-controlled source code is stored in the repository. Why not that of the database? To reproduce arbitrary database states in development, test or production environments, two powerful Java libraries are at hand that can be seamlessly integrated into a build for an agile Continuous Delivery.
]]> News J65nko http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7907 NetBSD NetBSD 6.1 and 6.0.2 released http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7906&goto=newpost Mon, 20 May 2013 12:35:34 GMT From http://h-online.com/-1866077 ---Quote--- The NetBSD Foundation has announced the first feature update of NetBSD 6 in the form of NetBSD... From http://h-online.com/-1866077

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The NetBSD Foundation has announced the first feature update of NetBSD 6 in the form of NetBSD 6.1. The changes in 6.1 include fixes in the kernel for processes with attributes. Networking gets fixes for "atomic fragments" in IPv6, fixes for locking issues in the ipf packet filter, many changes to the npf packet filter library and a correction to the VirtIO NIC driver which had been crashing recent QEMU versions. Filesystem changes include various fixes and working big-endian support for smbfs and an ability to mount ext2fs and msdosfs in 32-bit compat mode.

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...the ARM platform now has "greatly improved" support for the Raspberry Pi, with both USB and on-board Ethernet networking functioning, ......
]]> News J65nko http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7906 50 million Apache OpenOffice downloads in a year http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7900&goto=newpost Thu, 16 May 2013 20:41:07 GMT From http://h-online.com/-1864812 ---Quote--- Just a few days after the one year anniversary of the release of the first version of OpenOffice... From http://h-online.com/-1864812

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Just a few days after the one year anniversary of the release of the first version of OpenOffice from the Apache Foundation (Apache OpenOffice 3.4) on 8 May 2012, the project can now boast 50 million downloads of the open source office suite. More than 80% of these downloads have come from Windows users, with the rest of the downloads spread between Mac OS X and Linux. Over time, the percentage of Windows users has slightly increased at the expense of Mac OS X, with Linux usage hovering steady under 5%.
]]> News J65nko http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7900 RIPE: Attacks on domain name systems are on the increase http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7899&goto=newpost Thu, 16 May 2013 20:37:47 GMT From http://h-online.com/-1864631 ---Quote--- 30 million open resolvers in the domain name system and a 200 per cent increase in the number of... From http://h-online.com/-1864631

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30 million open resolvers in the domain name system and a 200 per cent increase in the number of attacks in 2012 – these alarming figures were discussed by administrators at the 66th meeting of the RIPE IP address registry in Dublin this week. A panel discussion revolved around how to motivate the black sheep to implement long overdue security measures before large-scale attacks call the regulators to action.
]]> News J65nko http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7899 Security Urgent security patches for ColdFusion, Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7897&goto=newpost Wed, 15 May 2013 16:48:49 GMT From http://h-online.com/-1863234 ---Quote--- On its May Patch Tuesday, Adobe closed a variety of critical security holes in Adobe Reader,... From http://h-online.com/-1863234

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On its May Patch Tuesday, Adobe closed a variety of critical security holes in Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash and released an important hotfix for ColdFusion. The hotfix closes a security hole that has already been exploited to compromise scores of servers.
]]> News J65nko http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7897 DragonFlyBSD Package download statistics http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7891&goto=newpost Sat, 11 May 2013 01:11:55 GMT
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It has now been a week since DragonFly 3.4 has been released.

Given many people are feeling it's time to end support for i386 machines, I
have decided to create some statistics on the relative usage of the 32 and
64-bit architectures.

The following raw numbers represent the number of DragonFly 3.4 package
downloads on mirror-master.dragonflybsd.org :

* 3436 pkgng/dports x86:32 downloads
* 14223 pkgng/dports x86:64 downloads

* 120 pkgsrc i386 downloads
* 139 pkgsrc x86_64 downloads
DragonFlyBSD mailing list ]]> News shep http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7891 Security Web server backdoor also booby traps lighttpd and NGINX http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7887&goto=newpost Wed, 08 May 2013 21:50:15 GMT From http://h-online.com/-1859667 ---Quote--- The criminals behind Linux/Cdorked,.a web server backdoor, are targeting the lighttpd and NGINX... From http://h-online.com/-1859667


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The criminals behind Linux/Cdorked,.a web server backdoor, are targeting the lighttpd and NGINX web servers. This is in addition to the already discovered compromised Apache HTTPD servers, according to a blog post by the anti-virus specialists at ESET. Cdorked turns web servers into malware machines, sending a selection of their visitors to malicious pages used by exploit kits like Black Hole.
]]> News J65nko http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7887 Security NGINX patches major security flaw http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7886&goto=newpost Wed, 08 May 2013 21:45:35 GMT From http://h-online.com/-1858438 ---Quote--- The NGINX developers have released an updated stable version 1.4.1 and development version 1.5.0... From http://h-online.com/-1858438

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The NGINX developers have released an updated stable version 1.4.1 and development version 1.5.0 to fix a major security flaw in the popular open source web server application. A stack-based buffer overflow is reported to occur in worker processes when handling specially crafted requests – the overflow could be exploited in such a way that it could lead to arbitrary code execution.
]]> News J65nko http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7886 phpMyAdmin 4.0 moves on from HTML frames http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7885&goto=newpost Wed, 08 May 2013 21:42:56 GMT From http://h-online.com/-1858208 ---Quote--- ersion 4.0 of phpMyAdmin, the popular web-based administration tool for MySQL databases, has been... From http://h-online.com/-1858208

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ersion 4.0 of phpMyAdmin, the popular web-based administration tool for MySQL databases, has been released. This latest version introduces a reworked user interface that replaces the somewhat dated HTML frames with a new tree style navigation implemented with JavaScript.

Aside from the new user interface, the developers have also fixed a number of bugs and have made the documentation for the software more accessible.
]]> News J65nko http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7885 Security Bejtlich writes again on network security! http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7884&goto=newpost Wed, 08 May 2013 02:34:54 GMT Some here may be fans of Richard Bejtlich's TaoSecurity blog, or a number of previous books he has written on network security. He is writing a new title, The Practice of Network Security Monitoring which is to be released in July. No Starch Press is offering a 30% discount for pre-orders. More information can be found at the following:

http://nostarch.com/nsm

:) ]]> News ocicat http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7884 British Telecom Retail Tests IP Address Sharing http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7883&goto=newpost Tue, 07 May 2013 15:19:03 GMT From http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news...rade-na-115411, the 'IPv4 adress shortage' department:

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BT Retail has begun testing a controversial technology called Carrier-Grade Network Address Translation (CGNAT), which will see some BT Retail customers sharing IP addresses, following a similar pilot scheme begun by BT-owned ISP PlusNet earlier this year.

The technology is being piloted with BT’s Option 1 Total Broadband customers, who BT says use the Internet the least.
]]> News J65nko http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7883 Care needed when combining Exim and Dovecot http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7882&goto=newpost Tue, 07 May 2013 05:53:33 GMT From http://h-online.com/-1856664 ---Quote--- A commonly used method of coupling the Exim and Dovecot mail server programs results in a serious... From http://h-online.com/-1856664

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A commonly used method of coupling the Exim and Dovecot mail server programs results in a serious security hole that allows attackers to inject and execute code. Penetration testers at RedTeam Pentesting came across the issue when performing tests for customers and established that it is caused by an officially recommended, but problematic configuration.
]]> News J65nko http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7882 <![CDATA[EU's AXLE to drive open source "Big Data" analytics]]> http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7876&goto=newpost Wed, 01 May 2013 17:33:02 GMT From http://h-online.com/-1854143 ---Quote--- The European Union is funding a consortium of researchers, academic organisations, and others to... From http://h-online.com/-1854143

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The European Union is funding a consortium of researchers, academic organisations, and others to come up with ways to improve decision-making speed and quality when it comes to real world data sets. The AXLE Project is being run by the AXLE Consortium – comprising the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, the University of Manchester, the University of Ljubljana, and Portavita – and is coordinated by PostgreSQL experts 2ndQuadrant.
]]> News J65nko http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7876