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Defensio is the latest comment spam filtering service for blogs and web applications. Blogging platforms currently supported are WordPress, PixelPost, Umbraco, Drupal, Mephisto, Movable Type and TextPattern. Web applications can see integration through the following platforms, Ruby On Rails, .Net, Java, PHP and Python. Currently, the only big player out there doing the same is Askimet. Askimet surprisingly was very positive about the new competitor on the block. Quoted from them, read more here. It’s hard to have a market with only one player. ...

You forget your root password and get locked out of your own box. What do you do? Typically, you would reboot into single user mode and change the password there. When booting into single user mode you will not be prompted for the root password. This is something every attacker knows and prays on once he has gained physical access to you box. So what do you do? Firstly, a good sys admin knows not to forget the root password. Login in as root is never a good idea so using sudo is always advised. This still leaves the single user mode vulnerable, to secure it you will have to append the following line “su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin” to your “/etc/inittab” file. Now, every time you boot into single user mode you will be prompted for the root password. ...

The popular BitTorrent tracker Demonoid was forced to go offline. This time by the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association). Demonoid is currently down and below the quoted from there index page. The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding. Source : Mashable

Raja, my buddy for the past 6 years is now part of The Danesh Project. We started off working in the same company for about 4 years and now have moved on to different places but our passion or Linux,open-source and beer keeps the friendship going. Raja is new to the the blogging arena so I thought this would be a good place for him to get started. He will primarily be posting about Linux, open-source, IT news and occasionally some local news from Malaysia. ...

Ars Technica has a rundown on whats new with it. Being a firm believer of clean installs, its time for me to ‘prepare’ my machine for this upgrade. Considering its Sunday, I guess my switch will have to wait till next weekend 🙁