One more critical from microsoft

Microsoft has released one more advisory for windows,  its print spooler this time. MS is yet to path the DNS vulnerability and here one more blow for microsoft.

With this remote hole an attacker can get remote access to windows servers, shut of your print spooler service and apply the patch once its out and tested.

Advisory for print spooler

DNS hole in Microsoft windows

Microsoft has  published a security advisory affecting DNS servers running on microsoft windows 2000 and 2003-sp2 included. DNS servers running on port 53 are not affected but the RPC service is affected so if your system is widely exposed you are screwed up. Well the worst thing is MS has not yet released a patch as yet. There are reports of a worm propagating that expoits this flaw now lets see how bad it gets, I bet if we encounter one more issue at this point in DNS which will actually affect the dns servers running on port 53 I can actually see another blaster coming..

– AniZ

CentOS 5 is out..

CentOS 5 released, its based on Redhat Enterprise Linux 5. Bang on with the new distro..

Better Virtualization, More optimised and stable enterprise grade linux + its supported for 7 years so even people using fedora should use centos 5

— Release announcement..

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-5 for
the i386 and x86_64 Architectures.

CentOS-5 is based on the upstream release 5, and includes packages from
all variants including Server and Client. All upstream repositories have
been combined into one, to make it easier for end users to work with.
And the option to further enable external repositories at install time
is now available in the installer.

Further Arch support for PowerPC, IA64 and Sparc are planned and will be
released soon. These arch’s will follow the existing pattern of release
to Beta first, and then to Final.

Check the full release announcement.

 – AniZ

Add me on speed dial

Well, I just check the latest opera 9.20 a few bug fixes blah blah but the feature i like the most in this version is Speed Dial, it just rocks. I am attaching a screenshot of speed dial. Speed dial made me reminds of a local html page will we use to use a few years back with all the local and quick links like mail.yahoo.com, intranet.blah.com, etc but those were plain links.. But this is damn cool with thumbnails, its a worth update.. get the opera 9.20 now..

Check the speed dial feature below.

– AniZ

Easy way to prosper, use Rival’s Database

Google apparently used sohu.com’s dictionry in a new product they launched, Product name is “Google Pinyin Input Method Editor (IME)”. Read here

Well first tell me a few things.

1) Where did google get the dictionary from ?

a) Did the hack into sohu.com’s network ?

b) Did they use a automated tool like WinRunner or QTP to automate the download of whole dictionary used by sohu ?

c) Did they buy it from sohu.com’s employee ?

d) Did they hire somebody from sohu or related from sohu and asked them to get a copy with themselves when coming to google

Tell me which answer do you like ?

2) What happened to “DONT BE EVIL” motto of Google ?

3) AFAIK google is just trying to screwup everything they can, because they are afraid if once their search goes down nothing can save them so they want to make sure that they have some backup plans to earn living.

4) Media is silent on this, Tell me what if microsoft would have done this ?

Every news website will shout and make noise about it.

Bloggers will start bashing ms for everything from dos to windows vista.

Now its not that google did it by mistake, Google did it and thats about it, who cares after all its google who we all love and not microsoft whose operating system we use but still bitch about every product from microsoft.

– AniZ

Google Sohu Dictionary Steal Microsoft