Security

Concern Troll is Concerned: Verifone vs Square

Suppose a major manufacturer of computer keyboards announced a very serious security problem with a specific competitor’s keyboard: Someone could plug this keyboard into a computer running a malicious app, and cause a user to enter sensitive information. Thus, the manufacturer demands that their competitor recall all of these “insecure” keyboards.

Anyone with the technical sense of a rock

Why I run qmail

There’s a very nasty root exim exploit in the wild.

Updated: To be fair to the hard-working exim team, this bug was fixed some time ago.