Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
During International PHP Conference 2008 there where a lot of discussions about the stupid backslash namespace seperator decision. Most of the guys "do not want to have their PHP files look like windows registry dumps" (Quoting some unknown guy at the panel discussion). Some people even suggested forking PHP at ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
I just wanted to announce that next wednesday (5th of November) at 19:30 there will be the second CGNSec meetup in Cologne/Germany.
The meeting takes place at Hallmackenreuther, Brüsseler Platz 9, 50674 Köln (Google Maps)
Everyone working in the field of information security is invited to attend. To find us, just ask ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
There is a common misunderstanding about me in the circles of BSD users that I have encountered once again at yesterdays first CGNSec meeting.
There is a FreeBSD kernel developer Stefan Eßer (Esser) that is also from cologne and also works in the field of IT-Security. We are not the same ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Next wednesday at 19:30 there will be the first CGNSec meetup in Cologne/Germany. CGNSec is inspired by the CitySec meetups that are popular in the United States and some other european and asian countries.
Everyone working in the field of information security is invited to come.
Because it is the first meeting ...
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
Users of Suhosin-Patch will sooner or later see messages like "canary mismatch on efree() - heap overflow detected" in their error log. When this happens they are often confused and don't understand what it means.
The first questions they often ask themself are:
Did they trigger a bug in Suhosin?
Is something wrong ...
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Although PHP 5.3 is still in alpha stage and certain features like the PHAR extension or the whole namespace support are still topics of endless discussions it already contains smaller changes that could improve the security of PHP applications a lot.
One of these small changes is the introduction of a ...
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