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Testing Ubuntu Touch Images

Ubuntu touch images are now available for testing on the isotracker. And further, the images are now raring based! As such, the ubuntu touch team is asking for folks to try out the new images on there devices and ensure they are no regressions or other issues. There are 4 product listings representing each of the […]

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Google outage affects customers worldwide

Gmail, Drive and the central administrative control panel for Google Apps suffered widespread disruptions.Access to several of Google’s most popular web services, including Gmail, Drive and the main administrative console was disrupted for around two hours Wednesday morning. The first to go down, according to Google’s Apps Status Dashboard, was the Admin control panel, which also […]

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Nexus7 in India via Google Play Store

Google Nexus7 is now available in India for buying from Google Play. Tech Specs SCREEN 7″ 1280×800 HD display (216 ppi) Back-lit IPS display Scratch-resistant Corning® glass CAMERA 1.2MP front-facing camera SIZE 198.5 x 120 x 10.45mm WEIGHT 340g WIRELESS WiFi 802.11 b/g/n Bluetooth NFC (Android Beam) MEMORY 16 GB internal storage (actual formatted capacity […]

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Worst Computer data breaches till now

The Identity Theft Resource Center, which tracks disclosed data breaches, has recorded 131 for the first three months of 2013, with 874,667 personal records related to medical, Social Security numbers, payment card and other information exposed. Cbr Systems, a blood-bank operator in California that stores what’s known as cord blood from newborn infants for healthcare […]

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PostgreSQL database fixes “persistent denial-of-service” bug

Maintainers of the PostgreSQL open-source database have patched a vulnerability that allowed attackers to corrupt files and in some cases, execute malicious code on underlying servers. The bug, categorized as CVE-2013-1899, opened users to “persistent denial-of-service” attacks, in which unauthenticated hackers could corrupt files in a way that caused the database server to crash and refuse […]

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A critical defect in BIND 9 allows an attacker to cause excessive memory consumption in named or other programs linked to libdns.

A flaw in a library used by BIND 9.7, 9.8, and 9.9, when compiled on Unix and related operating systems, allows an attacker to deliberately cause excessive memory consumption by the named process, potentially resulting in exhaustion of memory resources on the affected server.  This condition can crash BIND 9 and will likely severely affect operation of other programs […]

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Google Play movies now available in India

Google Play’s book collection opened up in India and Mexico just a few weeks ago, and now Mountain View’s movie hoard is available in both countries on the web and through the content’s Android app. Google Play : Moovies Google Play Movies & TV (Google Play)

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Microsoft releases emergency update to patch Internet Explorer bug

Microsoft has released an emergency update to patch a security vulnerability in Internet Explorer that is being exploited in attacks aimed at government contractors and other targeted organizations. The patch fixes a “use after free” bug in versions 6, 7, and 8 of the Microsoft browser and will be automatically installed on affected machines that […]

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Java™ SE Development Kit 7, Update 11 (JDK 7u11) released

oracle had an unplanned release for  recent  Java SE Dev kit 7, due to security vulnerabilities. The latest release is 1.7.0_11-b21 (where “b” means “build”) and the version number is 7u11. update release notes can be found here. This release contains fixes for security vulnerabilities. For more information, see Oracle Security Alert for CVE-2013-0422. In addition, the […]

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Samba 4 released

Samba is a free software licensed under GNU general public license and  re-implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol. Samba version 4 has been released. It is a major rewrite that enables Samba to be an Active Directory domain controller.   Samba 4.0.0 Available for Download The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed using […]