In the last few days a serious bug, nicknamed Heartbleed, has been found in the cryptographic software library OpenSSL.
This bug allows any ill-intentioned hacker to read the memory of the systems with the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software installed; with this kind of access an attacker can read the secret keys used to encrypt the traffic to the server including the usernames and passwords of the users and the actual content.
Fortunately only the 1.0.1 series (up to 1.0.1f) and 1.0.2-beta series (up to 1.0.2-beta1) of OpenSSL are affected by the Heartbleed bug.
Increase the camera distance in Star Wars: The Old Republic
Do you play Star Wars: The Old Republic and you are not happy with the limited camera distance? There is a way to increase it beyond the limit offered by the game configuration window.
How to play DVD on Ubuntu
Surely most of you have some, if not many, movies on DVD and you are used to watch them on the PC.
Unfortunately, due to licensing Ubuntu is released only with free codecs for multimedia playback and therefore it requires few additional steps to have the codecs for proprietary formats (DVD, mp3, avi, etc.).