BackTrack 3.0 Final released

We finally released BackTrack 3.0 !!! For this release we have 3 versions: CD, USB (extended tool-set) and a VMware image.

We have slaved for weeks and months, together with the help of many remote-exploit'ers to bring you this fine release. As usual, this version overshadows the previous ones with extra cool things.

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Free Online PDF Creator

PrimoOnline provides a super-fast way to create PDF files online, without the need to install any PDF software. Simply upload your file, enter your email address, and our server-based PDF creator will quickly convert it to PDF and deliver it straight to your email inbox.

Subversion 1.5.0 Released

The Subversion team is proud to announce the release of Subversion 1.5.0.
The first new feature release of Subversion in almost 2 years, 1.5.0 contains a number of new improvements and features. A detailed list of changes can be found in the release notes.

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SSH Fingerprint Visualization Support

Alexander von Gernler (grunk@) has committed support for SSH fingerprint visualization. This is a technique to make it possible for users to remember SSH fingerprints more easily. Instead of just looking at the ssh fingerprint in clear text you can now get a graphical pattern where your key is represented by a worm inside a field, the worm will look slightly different depending on the fingerprint.

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Converting FreeBSD into PC-BSD

This post describes an example of how one can manually convert a FreeBSD installation into a PC-BSD one using the install disk. There are more elegant ways of doing it, such as pulling things from PC-BSDs SVN and compiling only PC-BSD specific components.

FreeBSD-EN-08:02.tcp

Topic: TCP options padding

Category: core
Module: sys_netinet
Announced: 2008-06-19
Credits: Bjoern A. Zeeb, Mike Silbersack, Andre Oppermann
Affects: 7.0-RELEASE
Corrected: 2008-05-05 20:59:36 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.0-STABLE)
2008-06-19 06:36:10 UTC (RELENG_7_0, 7.0-RELEASE-p2)

For general information regarding FreeBSD Errata Notices and Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following sections, please visit http://security.freebsd.org/.

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Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Vulnerability

A number of people who monitor our Zero Day Initiative's Upcoming Advisories page noticed yesterday that we reported a vulnerability to Mozilla (ZDI-CAN-349). Taking into account the coincidental timing of the Firefox 3.0 release, many are asking us if this is the first reported critical vulnerability in the latest version of the popular open source browser.

What we can confirm is that about five hours after the official release of Firefox 3.0 on June 17th, our Zero Day Initiative program received a critical vulnerability affecting Firefox 3.0 as well as prior versions of Firefox 2.0.x. We verified the vulnerability in our lab, acquired it from the researcher, then promptly reported the vulnerability to the Mozilla security team shortly after. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Not unlike most browser based vulnerabilities that we see these days, user interaction is required such as clicking on a link in email or visiting a malicious web page.

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Debugging PHP using Eclipse and PDT

The PHP Development Tools (PDT) plug-in, when installed with Eclipse Europa, gives you that ability to quickly write and debug PHP scripts and pages. PDT supports two debugging tools: XDebug and the Zend Debugger. Learn how to configure PDT for debugging PHP scripts and discover which perspectives you use when taking closer looks at your scripts.

This tutorial demonstrates how to configure the PHP Development Tools (PDT) plug-in for Eclipse to debug your PHP scripts. It also introduces the perspectives you'll use (namely, PHP Debug) when taking closer looks at your PHP scripts.

Read It Later Adds Firefox 3 Integration

To-read manager Read It Later, a free Firefox extension we've previously covered, has updated for Firefox 3 in a big way.

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New PHP dedicated job site

Manuel Lemos from PHPClasses has announced the launch of a new section in the website dedicated to jobs for php professionals.

This new PHP job site allows companies to reach a large number of professionals with specific PHP skills eventually taking less time and money to find qualified professionals to fill their job openings.

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LDAP authentication with PHP

Wouldn’t it be nice to authenticate your intranet applications or website users against an LDAP server?
The main reason why we could do this is to centralize the user credentials, our valuable users will only have to remember one password for all their applications / services.

In this example, I will try to explain how to connect to a Zimbra LDAP server using php5-ldap.

Wine 1.0 Released

The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available.
This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of development and beta testing. Many thanks to everybody who helped us along that long road!

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IBM May Open Source DB2

IBM is positive about the possibility of bringing out its DB2 under an open source license. While the computing giant has no immediate plans to open source DB2, market conditions may make it unavoidable, according to Chris Livesey, IBM's UK director of information management software.

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How to Select Multiple Lines of Text in Firefox 3

With Firefox 3, you can easily select multiple and non-consecutive pieces of text from a web page as shown in this GIF screencast.

Screencast: Firefox 3 in Action

http://people.mozilla.com/~beltzner/overview-of-firefox3.swf

Five Extensions You Won't Need with Firefox 3

Now that Mozilla's locked down Firefox 3's feature set, it's clear the new browser iteration will render some extensions obsolete. Firefox 3 will include functionality out-of-the-box that you could only get with add-ons before. Let's take a look at five extensions you might not need when you switch to Firefox 3.