Craig Thompson is interviewed by Sailing in Marin. He discusses how two factors are influencing the location of the event: poor and unsafe state of the city piers and proximity to automobile parking. It just happened that piers 27-29, 26-28 are in better shape than some of the piers being considered further south, which will … Continue reading America’s Cup Planning for San Francisco
The Dusseldorf airport’s CEO and new President of the German Airport Association has sparked a debate about passenger profiling …he wanted to introduce passenger profiling in German airports to fight terrorism. The system would be similar to that used in Israel, where passengers are categorized as high or low risk according to their age, sex, … Continue reading German Airport Association President Calls for Profiling
German politicians are exploring how to regulate miniature camera drones as a data protection risk They fly, take pictures, can be operated remotely and even come with an auto-pilot feature to land safely in case their owner gets distracted. The flying miniature drones are marketed as the AR.Drone by wireless device manufacturer Parrot and have … Continue reading Mini Surveillance Drones
According to CVE-2010-4573, also known as VMSA-2010-0020, a VMware ESXi 4.1 system upgraded from ESXi 3.5 or ESXi 4.0 may allow open authorization. The flaw is related to the Small Footprint Common Information Model Broker (SFCB). If the SFCB daemon is running (on by default) or the configuration file (/etc/sfcb/sfcb.cfg) was changed before the upgrade, … Continue reading SFCB Authentication Flaw in VMware ESXi 4.1 Upgrade