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[URL="http://www.gentoo.org"]Gentoo[/URL] has issued a security advisory with a high impact rating affecting users of PHP <5.2.2. Several vulnerabilities have been found in PHP, not least a huge number discovered by Stefan Esser during the infamous Month Of PHP Bugs (MOPB) including integer overflows in wbmp.c from the GD library and …

Yesterday, in the UK, it was National Work From Home Day. So it was with perfect timing that Giritech and the conferencing services division of BT, published the results of “The Costs of Transport on the Environment – The Role of Teleworking in Reducing Carbon Emissions" report which was undertaken …

[FONT=&quot]It seems that everyone and their uncle are doing a Linux deal at the moment, and the latest to hop into the same commercial bed are IBM and Red Hat. Today the companies have announced an initiative to encourage the dramatic growth of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System …

Just a week after Mozilla made the Release Candidate 1 version of the Firefox-alike open source email client available for download, comes the news that the final version is now [URL="http://www.getthunderbird.com"]here[/URL]. Mozilla Thunderbird 2 brings lots of new features to the table, most notably: [LIST] [*]Message Tagging - Organize emails …

How small can a laser get? Good question, and according to the physicists at the [URL="http://www.nist.gov/"]National Institute of Standards and Technology[/URL] (NIST) the answer is very small indeed, one single quantum dot small perhaps. To put this into some perspective, a typical microdisk laser of the type currently used in …

The [URL="http://www.itu.int"]International Telecommunication Union[/URL] (ITU)[URL="http://www.itu.int/"][/URL] and the [URL="http://www.aptsec.org"]Asia Pacific Telecommunity[/URL] (APT)[URL="http://www.aptsec.org/"][/URL] today announced the outcome of a jointly organized workshop in Bangkok, Thailand which addressed plans for the implementation and development of Next-Generation Networks (NGN) in the region. With over 180 experts from 24 countries attending, including representatives of international …