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The debate around the safety of the Android platform gets new fuel. After have commented in recent weeks regarding more known companies in the antivirus industry security and proliferation of malware for Android, a Google manager now has countered with a vengeance: The anti-virus vendors are charlatans.

Chris DiBona is responsible for Google’s open-source management of the company. In a post on Google + he does nothing good to the statements of the anti-virus vendors. “No major mobile OS has to deal with viruses such as Windows or Mac OS in the past. Manufacturers of antivirus apps for Android, RIM or iOS play with the fear of consumers and are charlatans and swindlers, their staff should be ashamed. ”
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With the recently released version 1.1.1 of the free Web analyzers Piwik disappear several vulnerabilities.

Because the way one hundred nor more errors have been removed, apply the update to users as a compulsory task. It should be noted that according to the forum post after the update of 1.0 may be necessary to the new version can log out and clear the cache, so Piwik report his analysis of data.

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“Yesterday the internet was so slow.” The user complains, rightly, but the admin does not help that. Unless he has recorded all the so-called traffic flows with their key data all the time and can now go on a journey into the past, which subsequently revealed the error.”

A cunning network problems is their often poor reproducibility: The coincidence of some factors causes a problem that hours later can not be examined live. Remedy here monitoring software, the connection data and other important characteristics capture continuously and prepared for later analysis. Argus, the Audit Record Generation and Utilization System ensure gemau that: it enables the subsequent analysis of problems in the network.
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Untangle 8.0 allows users to control the bandwidth. Thus, for determine which compounds should be given priority to ensure that mission-critical applications by video or use online games are limited. Administrators can set quotas on an hourly, weekly and monthly basis and can be displayed in real time how much traffic has already been used. Users who do not abide by established agreements can be locked from the WWW. The bandwidth control is to have monthly and included in Untangle premium packages from $ 25.
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The cube competition from the Linux Magazine 09/2010 holds a number of surprises up its sleeve: At present, participants roll the more than 100 for the finals against each other. Here’s are a number of hurdles to overcome.

The first challenge was simply to extract all the source code from the mail and record. Most had indeed deposited in an accompanying letter botname and participants name a dozen such information has, however, only an intense source code analysis brought to light. Second step was translating and unifying the call interface. Since there were all kinds of modules, compiler, interpreter and libraries to reload. The restriction on finished Debian packages has helped considerably, but even here there were then 10 percent of bots, the 90 percent of the work of this step have caused.
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Abode released a patch yesterday to address security vulnerabilities for the flash player. You can read the security bulletin here . Adobe categorizes these as critical issues and recommends affected users update their installations to the newest versions. All platforms are affected.

If you are a 64 bit Linux user you can download the update from Adobe here. I am a firefox user so upgrading was simply to download the libflashplayer-10.0.42.34.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz , unpack it move the libflashplayer.so to ~/.mozilla/plugins/ overwrite if necessary and restart firefox if running. Update complete.