The latest versions of Ubuntu have an urgent security issue that must be patched immediately. Other Linux distributions are not affected. The problem is how Ubuntu developers assigned excessive access rights to pam_motd for it to access the file motd.legal-notice in a user’s local cache directory. This file just exists to create user’s file stamp … Continue reading Ubuntu urgent PAM vulnerability →

I can not help but put the following two stories together: First, USA Today says near misses are on the rise, especially in Washington DC According to the Post, the Washington-metro area has already had more near misses reported in the past six months than last year’s total of 18. The paper reported that air … Continue reading Huge Rise in US Air Near Misses →

Computer world has an interesting review of a British company’s outsource strategy for IT. It has the provocative title of How the Cloud Changed World’s Oldest Newspaper. It shifts IT from keeping the lights on to delivering customer-facing value. Wright presented a chart showing the changing makeup of IT headcount and how cloud computing supports … Continue reading Cloud Economics and the Telegraph →

A movie that tells the true story about an American con man has not yet been released in America. No, not Abignale. This is a different spin artist. Like Abignale this man starts out losing his parents. Instead of running away, however, he is adopted. The search for his real parents leads him to master … Continue reading I Love You Phillip Morris →