Month: October 2011

  • Ubuntu Upgrade Day: 11.04 – 11.10 ‘Oneiric Ocelot’

    Yay! My favorite Linux distro gets a facelift today with Ubuntu 11.04 making way for the newly released version 11.10 ‘Oneiric Ocelot’. From past history lessons, I do tend to stray on the side of caution, so only one of my machines will be getting the upgrade treatment this week and I’ll hold off with the […]

  • The best exploits are old exploits

    Last week I had a really interesting meeting with one of the Security Advisors from Microsoft prior to the release of their Security Intelligence Report (SIR) – Volume 11. While we were specifically discussing different things in this meeting, one of the side conversations came back to the issues surrounding legacy software and it’s ongoing […]