Archive 17. November 2005

Chancellors can commit perjury and maintain secret accounts, getting away with a mere threatening finger-wagging. But football fraud is severely punished in Germany.

Hibernate on your non-brandnew Mac - works on many old PowerBooks, except on the 12" 867Mhz PowerBook. Guess which one I have ...

Critical Vulnerability in Content Management System Mambo

PHP is increasingly becoming a security dump:

Not always does disabling register_globals in PHP increase security. Sometimes this opens up a vulnerability. This is also the case with the Content Management System Mambo, which, according to a posting on the security mailing list Full Disclosure, contains a vulnerability that allows attackers to execute their own code on the server.

This is certainly due to the fact that there is hardly any language - apart perhaps from Perl - that carries as much cruft as PHP. The result shows itself again and again in esoteric problems that even catch people who should be prepared for such things based on their experience.