So there are some news from the front of OpenSSL CVE-2009-3555 (see this and this for the history). Now the latest version of Apache mod_ssl (2.2) embeds an option to reactivate old way client renegociation : Check the official doc for more details. With this option activated, you can now safely upgrade openSSL and mod_ssl [...]
A solution has been finally brought up to fix CVE-2009-3555 and the temporary solution that broke client authentication. At least, the IETF agreed on a fix as Marsh Ray informs us, though it will still take some weeks for the whole validation process to complete. Moreover, as it requires both the servers and the clients [...]
I release a new version of Netios : 0.71. There are a lot of changes, starting with cosmetics, but the biggest one is the support of multiprocessing. It is now able to process several routers at the same time, so using it on a large list of machines results in a big speed up. A [...]
A security advisory on OpenSSL has recently been published. Details are there and there. It is vulnerable to a MiTM attack where the attacker can intercept and retrieve the credential to a trusted HTTPS website, by intercepting the session cookie sent back to the client. A proof of concept of an attack against Twitter was [...]
I tried yesterday to set up a home server with two disks in a RAID 1 array. My intention was to have everything on the RAID volume, including /boot, so that if a disk crash, I still can boot on the second one. That’s the way I think it should work anyway, despite the number [...]
I bought a 500 GB 2.5″ external disk drive to backup the data of my laptop. It is small, quiet, easy to move and far enough for the important data I want to backup, mostly documents, e-mails or script from work. Being lazy, it happened that I did not backup my data. Yes, it is [...]
Great and clear article there from Linux magazine that sums up the new BTRFS file system. I can’t wait for it to become stable ! UPDATE 2009-02-05 : I hope to see this soon on a Linux distribution.
I don’t know how it really happened – probably a VMWare crash that locked my file system, but after a reboot I got this message at startup : As a result, some of the partitions were not mounted and the system was pretty much broken. But, no need to panic, just erase all the lock [...]
