A number of bloggers and web site owners use phpMyAdmin for easy database administration. Two critical vulnerabilities have been discovered that could be used to gain full access to the affected server. Exploits have already been made publicly available, see GNUCITIZEN for an example: http://172.16.211.10/phpMyAdmin-3.0.1.1//config/ config.inc.php?p=phpinfo(); Description Setup script used to generate configuration can be fooled using a crafted POST [...]
Avoid popularity if you would have peace – Abraham Lincoln Mozilla started a blog back in 2008, after breaking the guiness world records for the most downloads in 24 hours. Can anyone guess what blogging platform they are using? Yes you probably guessed it if you read the title of this post. Mozilla stands out with a few [...]
“internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” – EFF co-founder John Gilmore 2005, Yahoo provides information that helped Chinese officials convict a journalist accused of leaking state secrets. Apparently, Shi Tao, a 37-year-old writer for the Dangdai Shang Bao, released a “state secret” which contained a message to Shi’s newspaper warning journalists of the [...]