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over a month ago was found and reported a serious vulnerability the NVIDIA proprietary drivers to Linux, through which an attacker could escalate privileges and gain root access.

NVIDIA Linux drivers proprietary 500x357 NVIDIA have a serious vulnerability unresolved

MuySeguridad our colleagues have, where they state that “failure is possible because the nVidia driver can move the window memory (memory area) VGA to the area reserved for the kernel and modify it. Writing in this area, you can perform any action with highest privileges “. Find more technical details Hispasec failure, the source of the news.

The question that matters here, beyond the hole found is that a month ago that the finder reported the bug to NVIDIA, without getting an answer today, let alone update. Total that person is tired of waiting and has posted information is supposed to react to NVIDIA.

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avisabais in the comments that we had passed this news post, so the error subsanamos now. After Left 4 Dead 2, Serious Sam 3 is the second title confirmed for Steam on Linux .

 Serious Sam 3 SeriousSamBFE3250712 500x295 Linux reach with the launch of Steam

Serious Sam 3: BFE is an action game in first person , quite violent so comment on Joystiq, and focused on the multiplayer. Of course, as in ‘L4D2′ has its history, which is one of the things that is missing in FPS available on Linux. Its release is expected the last months of the year , and will do with all the extras of the versions of Windows and Mac OS X.

the press release issued by Croteam and Return Digital , responsible for the title, have ensured that Serious Sam 3 will Linux “ because the penguins also love to blow things Gross “. They add, “We are conducting the Steamworks integration process and the achievements and the whole thing, but still can not keep the damn penguin .”

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The first Serious Sam 3 running on Linux-Ubuntu in particular, can be found in Phoronix, with the following image:
500x312 Serious Sam 3 SS3 will come to Linux with the release of Steam

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Over recent years showed that Android operating system is a great phone, but its security problems have become a big headache. The main drawback that Google had faced so far was the malware, although other vulnerabilities have also said this. Researchers at the University …

When launched the Galaxy Nexus, and the new Android Ice Cream Sandwich, we were introduced Unlock Face, software that will unlock the phone through facial recognition, ie only show our face to the camera phone. Unlock Face But it is not safe. As seen in …

android rendered found a serious flaw in Android 2.3

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Android 2.3 is a software platform for advanced smart phones at the moment. However, that does not mean the Google operating system does not have some bugs .

Some time ago we told you that Android showed a very serious problem in the system for sending text messages. But now they have found a bug even worse. flaw is a vulnerability squeezing micro SD card phone .

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The flaw was found by a researcher at the University of North Carolina State, who said bug allows malicious websites to access the memory card and steal the contents stored on it to upload to servers remote .

The biggest danger is the possibility to collect voice messages or information stored online bank transfers. According to the developer who found the problem, there are several temporary solutions to this problem, such as remove the micro SD card, turn off JavaScript or switch to an Internet browser developed by third .

So far, since Google said they are working on a fix for this bug. But it is unclear when may access it through an update . Hopefully they fix this problem soon, since it is a flaw inherited from the previous version of Android.

Source: Engadget.

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