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US actor Paul Walker who starred in the Fast & Furious series of action films has been killed in a car crash in California, his publicist says. A statement on his Facebook page said Walker, 40, had been a passenger in a friend's car which crashed north of Los Angeles. He was said to be attending a charity event at the time. He starred in The Fast and The Furious in 2001 and featured in the sixth film in the franchise which opened in May. Walker also starred in the suspense drama Hours, a movie that is set for release this month. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's department said the crash happened in the community of Valencia . Actor Paul Walker — a self-styled adrenaline junkie best known for his role in "The Fast and the Furious" movies — was killed Saturday in a fiery single-car wreck in Southern California. The 40-year-old Walker was riding in a Porsche GT about 3:30 p.m. when the driver lost co...

Adobe got hacked and about 150 million people’s account details have been leaked. You should be aware that the passwords are encrypted with a single key using a symmetric and reversible algorithm.   This means when anyone figures out the key to decrypt the passwords, they'll be able to decrypt every single password on the list, no matter how strong or random your password was.   So far no one has been able to reverse-engineer the Adobe decryption key, but it's probably a matter of time.   This could all have been avoided if Adobe had used a cryptographic hash function.

Red Hat has integrated OpenStack with the new version of Red Hat CloudForms ( 3.0 ), which helps manage public, private, and hybrid clouds. It also announced several new efforts in support of the company's open hybrid cloud vision, including beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, advancements to drive OpenShift by Red Hat on OpenStack, and a preview of OpenStack-M.

GCC developers from multiple companies are beginning to reach agreement that it's time for Java to be turned off by default in GCC. The Java compiler support in GCC is in the form of GCJ, but it doesn't see much active development these days with more of the Java work happening in OpenJDK. Developers are looking to disable Java from the default GCC build process but to potentially replace it with the Go or ADA languages.  With the open-source Java toolchain development having shifted from GCJ to OpenJDK years ago, Jeff Law of Red Hat characters the current state of Java in GCC as "moved from active development into a deep maintenance mode." GCJ seldom sees new development work and its usage isn't great either, but as of right now it's still built by default when compiling GCC.  Jeff Law volleyed a mailing list thread on Friday entitled  Replace Java with Go in default languages . So far GCC developers from various companies seem to be in agreement on dropping ...

Google this week rolled out a new Google+ security feature for organizations intended to help them keep certain conversations private from the larger Web. Much like Microsoft's Yammer, Google+ restricted communities will only allow access to approved employees. "Whether it's designs of your beta product or notes from your team off-site, anything you post will remain restricted to the organization," Google+ product manager Michael Cai wrote in a blog post. Community administrators can decide whether the site will remain open to everyone at the company, or kept private by invitation only. Google+ also allows for people outside of your domain — clients, agencies, business partners — to join the conversation.

Twitter  is a young company generating large losses as it competes in a highly uncertain sector of the economy. And that is exactly why investors clamored for a piece of its initial public offering, which closed on Wednesday evening. Twitter’s shares were priced at $26, giving the company an overall value of $18.1 billion, including stock that the company is likely to issue to employees. That makes Twitter worth more than many storied American corporations, like Alcoa and Harley-Davidson. At that valuation, each of Twitter’s 230 million users around the world is worth $78. Going by such numbers, the public offering has been a tremendous success for the company, which raised $1.8 billion from the offering, a hefty war chest. All this is impressive for a company that has racked up more than $300 million of losses in the last three years — and may not show real profits until 2015. But investors are betting that Twitter is virtually destined to become wildly p...

Feedly, one of the leading Google Reader replacement services, announced major restructuring of its services today with a new cloud infrastructure and web interface. Posted on its official blog, Feedly unveiled what it calls "Feedly Cloud", a scalable infrastructure it says is ready to replace Google Reader. The new Feedly Cloud provides several benefits, the first of which is one-click import from Google Reader -- new users to the service can now simply pull everything over seamlessly from their Google account and start using Feedly right away. Existing users will simply have to make sure that they have the latest version of Feedly installed, and their accounts will be migrated to Feedly Cloud over the next few days. Additionally, the new service allowed Feedly to create a stand-alone web interface (found simply at cloud.feedly.com) that works in all major browsers without plugins or extensions. The transition to Feedly Cloud has another benefit, and that is the abilit...

We tend to focus on the top-tier "super" phones here, but we should never forget that the important market is made of the people who don't yet have a smartphone in areas where technology is only beginning to penetrate. Labeled "emerging markets" by the media, these areas are filled with folks who might not want nor be able to afford $700 smart phones.  The folks making the phones, and the people like Qualcomm who build out the components know how important this sector is. They want people to have devices they can afford, and while it's more of a business decision than a humanitarian one, they do what is necessary to deliver products that will make an impact. We're seeing more evidence of that today from Qualcomm. In a press release they just sent out, they have announced six new variants of the Snapdragon 200 chip, ready for use in phones and other devices that won't break the bank. Complete with an Adreno 302, the new chips will offer eno...

Google promoting Google Play Music when connecting to Starbucks free Wifi Logging into free Wifi at Starbucks? Now you'll be shown a free trial offer for Google Play Music All Access Starting this week, Starbucks and Google have partnered up to offer customers that connect to its free Wifi promotional deals to check out content from Google Play. For some time now Starbucks has been partnering with different companies -- most recently The Wall Street Journal -- to advertise on their free WIfi login page, offering different deals or showing promotional videos before you were able to log on. At many Starbucks locations customers will now see an advertisement (shown above) for Google Play Music All Access, promoting the features of the service and offering a click-through to a free trial.  Clicking through offers customers a full browser page where they'll see the merits of the service and give them a chance to start the same 30-day free trial that has been offered si...

Linux Kernel 3.9.6 is the sixth maintenance release for Kernel 3.9 series which is now available for download for all Linux users. This new release brings some ARM fixes and sound enhancements. In this page, we will see as usual how to upgrade to this new kernel using a bash script dedicated for users of Ubuntu, Linux Mint and any other Ubuntu-based system. http://latestlinuxupdates.com/linux-kernel-3-9-6/

In recent weeks, numerous high profile organizations and financial institutions have been targets of massive service disruption attacks.  Several of these attacks are characteristically similar to attacks against top level domain name servers in 2006.  ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee published an Advisory, SAC008 [PDF, 963 KB]: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks, shortly after the 2006 incidents.  Recommendations from that Advisory remain relevant today.  DDoS attacks commonly use IP addresses that are not allocated to the subscriber or IP addresses from reserved/private space to make it difficult to identify sources of attack traffic. This is called IP address spoofing. Access service providers or corporations should apply network ingress filtering (described in SAC004 and recommended by the Internet IAB in BCP038) to prevent spoofing. Squelching attack traffic close to its origins has the added benefit of relieving ISPs from forward...

Security researchers have released details about a vulnerability in the MySQL server that could allow potential attackers to access MySQL databases without inputting proper authentication credentials. The vulnerability is identified as CVE-2012-2122 and was addressed in MySQL 5.1.63 and 5.5.25 in May. However, many server administrators might not be aware of its impact, because the changelog for those versions contained very little information about the security bug. The vulnerability can only be exploited if MySQL was built on a system where the memcmp() function can return values outside the -128 to 127 range. This is the case for Linux systems that use an SSE-optimized glibc (GNU C library). If MySQL was built on such a system, the code that compares the cryptographic hash of a user-inputted password to the hash stored in the database for a particular account will sometimes allow authentication even if the supplied password is incorrect. The probability of triggerin...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Russian hackers released a giant list of passwords this week, and on Wednesday security researchers identified their likely source: business social networking site LinkedIn. LinkedIn confirmed in a blog post late Wednesday afternoon that some of the stolen passwords correspond to LinkedIn accounts. The company did not offer any information about how the passwords were stolen or the extent of the damage, but it said it is "continuing to investigate" the matter. The 6.5 million leaked passwords were posted Monday on a Russian online forum, camouflaged with a common cryptographic code called SHA-1 hash. It's a format that's considered weak if added precautions aren't taken. Roughly half of the "hashed" passwords have already been decoded and posted online in human-readable text. Several security researchers tweeted Wednesday that they have found their passwords among those that were revealed. Web security firm Sophos...

Since 042stab056.5 : [cfq] kernel BUG at block/cfq-iosched.c:386 has been fixed (PCLIN-30890) [fuse] added possibility to disable fuse O_DIRECT with help of fs.fuse_ext_caps sysctl (enabled by default) (debug for PSBM-13075) [fuse] flush writeback data on file close. In particular this fixes checkpointing (PSBM-13226) [fuse] several other bugfixes [quota] remounting of FS with quota on ploop could crash host (PSBM-13231) [fs/writeback] writeback writer throttler algorithm has been enhanced [mount namespaces] mount namespaces support for has been added. This is required for Fedora 17 (PSBM-13004). Note: online migration support has not been added yet [cpt] kernel BUG at kernel/cpt/rst_socket.c:407 (on a self-connected socket restore) fixed (PSBM-13367) [cpt] sleep-in-atomic at dumping cgroup has been fixes (PSBM-13297) [cpt] timerfs irq-safe locking has been fixed [cpt] false positive error messages "_rst_get_object: wrong object type" has been fixed...

Angry Birds is still going strong. Its parent company, Rovio, earned $67.6 million on sales of $106.3 million last year, and the Finnish firm is now preparing itself (for real this time, apparently) for an IPO that could take place in New York or even Hong Kong, (where the Angry Birds game and plush toys sell like hot cakes). With Facebook gearing up for its own megabucks floatation, Rovio has been caught up in the ongoing debate about funny money. Is it really worth the $9 billion that analysts have been predicting, just below the $10 billion market cap of its neighbour Nokia, the world’s second biggest handset maker? Read More

After my foray into making bootable flash drives , I decided to put my flash drive back to its original state. It was going to take at least a little bit of effort since I know had multiple partitions on the drive which would need to be removed. I first went to my default disk utility, GParted. GParted allowed me to first unmount the partitions that Linux was auto-mounting as drives. I was then able to delete the partitions to make the drive completely unallocated space. That’s where I started to run into issues. I went to make the entire drive a single FAT32 partition, but GParted gave me the following .... Read More

Updated sudo packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The sudo (superuser do) utility allows system administrators to give certain users the ability to run commands as root. This update fixes the following bugs: * A race condition in the signal handling code caused the sudo process to become unresponsive after receiving the SIGCHLD signal. This update modifies the signal handling to prevent the race condition, which ensures that the sudo process no longer hangs under these circumstances. (BZ#802440) * The "-l" option is used to list allowed and forbidden commands for the invoking user or for the user specified by the "-U" option. However, previously, the getgrouplist() function incorrectly checked the invoker's group membership instead of the membership of the specified user. Consequently, using the "sudo" command with both the "-l" and "-U" options listed privileges granted to any group the ...