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Ubuntu Karmic - Installing Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a new browser developed by Google. Google as we know is the popular search engine for now :) and their new product is Google Chrome Browser. We will install Chrome in Ubuntu based distro's - Edit your sources.list (/etc/apt/sources.list) # sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list - Add the following code in your sources.list (For Jaunty) deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main (For Karmic) deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main - Save, add a key, and update # sudo apt-key adv -- recv-keys -- keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5 # sudo apt-get update # sudo apt-get install chromium-browser Done!

Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities

Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities Original release date: Last revised: -- Source: US-CERT Systems Affected * Microsoft Windows and Windows Server * Microsoft Internet Explorer * Microsoft Office * Microsoft .NET Framework * Microsoft Silverlight * Microsoft SQL Server * Microsoft Developer Tools * Microsoft Forefront Overview Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Windows Server, Internet Explorer, Office, .NET Framework, Silverlight, SQL Server, Developer Tools, and Forefront. I. Description Microsoft has released multiple security bulletins for critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Windows Server, Internet Explorer, Office, .NET Framework, Silverlight, SQL Server, Developer Tools, and Forefront. These bulletins are described in the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for October 2009. II. Impact A remote, unauthenticated attacker could ex

Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities

Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities Original release date: Last revised: -- Source: US-CERT Systems Affected * Microsoft Windows * Microsoft Internet Explorer * Microsoft Office Overview Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office. Solution Install updates The updates to address these vulnerabilities are available on the Microsoft Update site (requires Internet Explorer). We recommend enabling Automatic Updates. Description Microsoft has released multiple security bulletins for critical vulnerabilities in Windows. These bulletins are described in the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for October 2009. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to gain control of your computer or cause it to crash. References * Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for October 2009 [ Link ] * Microsoft Windows Server Update Services [ Link ]

Apache Infrastructure

Nice article from Apache Team and If you want to know more about Apache you really want to read this : https://blogs.apache.org/infra/ As we all know, even the oldest application like Apache can be compromised, how about us ? :)

Samba - getpeername failed

I facing this error message in my samba server which serve 20 Windows XP user that store their file in the server daily. I setup a FreeBSD 7.2 samba server on my machine. So far it working good :) But the error that I get is so annoying but since the samba server is working fine, it's no big deal for me to check for more details. Oct 12 09:51:02 opigateway smbd[1239]: [2009/10/12 09:51:02, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr_internal(1676) Oct 12 09:51:02 opigateway smbd[1239]: getpeername failed. Error was Socket is not connected Oct 12 09:51:02 opigateway smbd[1239]: [2009/10/12 09:51:02, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_data(1136) Oct 12 09:51:02 opigateway smbd[1239]: [2009/10/12 09:51:02, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr_internal(1676) As I'm searching on the net, I found one of the web site mention regarding getpeername error which is this site . So we have to add a new option in our global configuration smb ports = 139 Restart the samba service and monitor your messages logs i

Microsoft Security Updates

Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for October Security Bulletin Original release date: October 8, 2009 at 4:59 pm Last revised: October 8, 2009 at 4:59 pm Microsoft has issued a Security Bulletin Advance Notification indicating that its October release cycle will contain thirteen bulletins, eight of which will have a severity rating of Critical. The notification states that these Critical bulletins are for Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, Silverlight, SQL Server, Developer Tools, and Forefront. There will also be five important bulletins for Microsoft Windows. Release of these bulletins is scheduled for Tuesday, October 13. US-CERT will provide additional information as it becomes available. Relevant Url(s): http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-oct.mspx

Adobe Security Updates

Adobe Releases Security Bulletin for Critical Vulnerability Original release date: October 8, 2009 at 4:59 pm Last revised: October 8, 2009 at 4:59 pm Adobe has released security bulletin APSB09-15 to alert users of a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Adobe indicates that it has received reports of active exploitation of this vulnerability. Release of an update for this vulnerability is scheduled for Tuesday, October 13. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to take the following actions to help mitigate the risks: * Review Adobe Security Bulletin APSB09-15. * Disable JavaScript in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Acrobat JavaScript can be disabled in the General preferences dialog (Edit, Preferences, JavaScript, and un-check "Enable Acrobat JavaScript"). Relevant Url(s): http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html

FreeBSD - Add new slices

Let say we have a disk with 40GB space, and allocated 10GB for the system, and have another 30GB free space. We want to configure a samba services and want to allocate the free space for the samba share. 1st we fdisk-ing the free space 1st, and then label the slice. For now we will using CLI. So to add new slices to the system, we issue this command : #bsdlabel -w /dev/ad0s2 #newfs -U /dev/ad0s2 #mount /dev/ad0s2 /share1 If done, Add the entry in your /etc/fstab If you encounter any error said the device is busy or no swap partition, issue this command : #sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 reboot and everything is done! :)

FreeBSD Security Advisory

New security advisory has been released by FreeBSD Security Team. Topic: Devfs / VFS NULL pointer race condition Category: core Module: kern Announced: 2009-10-02 Credits: Przemyslaw Frasunek Affects: FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x Corrected: 2009-05-18 10:41:59 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.2-STABLE) 2009-10-02 18:09:56 UTC (RELENG_7_2, 7.2-RELEASE-p4) 2009-10-02 18:09:56 UTC (RELENG_7_1, 7.1-RELEASE-p8) 2009-10-02 18:09:56 UTC (RELENG_6, 6.4-STABLE) 2009-10-02 18:09:56 UTC (RELENG_6_4, 6.4-RELEASE-p7) 2009-10-02 18:09:56 UTC (RELENG_6_3, 6.3-RELEASE-p13) For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following sections, please visit http://security.FreeBSD. org/ >. I. Background The device file system (devfs) provides access to sy