Thanks to BeF we discovered (and fixed) a XSS vulnerability in MUCkl yesterday. Now there’s a new release of MUCkl (v0.4.3) available for you to download which fixes this issue (and some more bugs too). If you’re hosting an instance of MUCkl somewhere please upgrade!

Today I migrated jwchat.org from good old jabberd-1.4.3 to ejabberd-1.1.2 for various reasons. First and foremost because ejabberd is easier to manage and because I’m developing components for ejabberd myself. All services are back online again and hopefully working fine. If you’ve got any problems connecting or using services at jwchat.org please drop me a [...]

Something a sysadmin don’t wants to miss anymore: MidpSSH is an SSH and Telnet client for MIDP 1.0 / 2.0 (J2ME) devices such as Java(tm)-capable cellphones and other mobile devices. MidpSSH is developed by Karl von Randow www.xk72.com and released under the GPL. +1 from me – real cool stuff

gnurps ~ # emerge -uD –newuse world [...] !!! Security Violation: A file exists that is not in the manifest. !!! File: files/awk/fixlafiles.awk-no_gcc_la gnurps ~ #

Due to increasing traffic at blogsport my server hosting this service ran into trouble more and more as it’s got not enough RAM as an increasing number of apache processes kept eating it up. Sure I just could have spent some money into new hardware but this seemed not to be adequate to me as [...]