Archive for September 27, 2007

According to GNUCitizens.org,  revealed that the email service of Goolge – GMail account is vulnerable to an attack that allows malicious folks to keep tabs on your e-mail traffic.

The victim visits a page while being logged into GMail. Upon execution, the page performs a multipart/form-data POST to one of the GMail interfaces and injects a filter into the victim’s filter list. In the example above, the attacker writes a filter, which simply looks for emails with attachments and forward them to an email of their choice. This filter will automatically transfer all emails matching the rule. Keep in mind that future emails will be forwarded as well. The attack will remain present for as long as the victim has the filter within their filter list, even if the initial vulnerability, which was the cause of the injection, is fixed by Google.

Red Hat profits beat expectations

Posted: September 27, 2007 in Tech

Red Hat Inc announced a 64% jump in its quarterly earnings on higher revenues from subscriptions for its Linux software.  The company said its net earnings in the three months ended August 31 rose to $18.2 million, or $0.09 per share, from $11.0 million, or $0.05 per share, in the year-ago quarter.

Red Hat’s revenues climbed 28% to $127.3 million in the quarter, with subscription revenues rising 29% to $109.2 million. While sales of Red Hat’s JBoss middleware product were lackluster, the impact of this weakness was offset by strength in the company’s Linux software.

NVIDIA Corporation is well positioned to capitalize on this emerging trend, and is proud to announce that it has extended its family of GeForce 7-Series motherboard graphics processing units (mGPUs) to Intel processor-based PCs.

In addition to delivering an unparalleled graphics experience to mainstream PCs, the GeForce 7-Series mGPUs support optional HDMI or DVI digital output capability to enable the playback of protected digital content directly from the PC to high-definition televisions and other displays.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. introduced its first quad-core x64 (x86, 64-bit) systems, including the world’s smallest four-socket x64 server — which delivers up to twice the expandability and compute power as other servers, yet is half the size.

The Sun Fire X4450 and Sun Fire X4150 servers, powered by Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, enable customers to solve critical problems in the datacenter by offering more performance, higher density, and better power efficiency than competitive systems in the market today.

Both servers also give customers a choice of operating systems, running the Solaris Operating System (OS), Windows, Linux or VMware, with the flexibility to deploy a broad range of applications.