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21 Mar

#cybersecurity | #hackerspace | Tips for Remote Troubleshooting Mac, Windows, and Linux Systems

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans We’re prepared to help with your COVID-19 response. Learn more. Troubleshooting end users’ computer issues doesn’t have to be tedious or time consuming. The right combination of tools and soft skills...
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9 Mar

#cybersecurity | hacker | Why Microsoft’s decision to seek security advice from Linux is a good first step

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans In July, Microsoft announced it is now seeking advice from the Linux development community. The company has now officially been admitted to the closed Linux-distro list. The news was met with...
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5 Mar

Critical PPP Daemon Flaw Opens Most Linux Systems to Remote Hackers

The US-CERT today issued advisory warning users of a new dangerous 17-year-old remote code execution vulnerability affecting the PPP daemon (pppd) software that comes installed on almost all Linux based operating systems, as well as powers the firmware of many...
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26 Feb

New OpenSMTPD RCE Flaw Affects Linux and OpenBSD Email Servers

OpenSMTPD has been found vulnerable to yet another critical vulnerability that could allow remote attackers to take complete control over email servers running BSD or Linux operating systems. OpenSMTPD, also known as OpenBSD SMTP Server, is an open-source implementation of...
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21 Feb

Microsoft Brings Defender Antivirus for Linux, Coming Soon for Android and iOS

Almost within a year after releasing Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) for macOS computers, Microsoft today announced a public preview of its antivirus software for various Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS and Debian. If this news hasn’t gotten...
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3 Feb

Sudo Bug Lets Non-Privileged Linux and macOS Users Run Commands as Root

Joe Vennix of Apple security has found another significant vulnerability in sudo utility that under a specific configuration could allow low privileged users or malicious programs to execute arbitrary commands with administrative (‘root’) privileges on Linux or macOS systems. Sudo...
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1 Feb

#cybersecurity | #hackerspace | Configuring AWS Linux Servers With LDAP

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans By Ryan Squires Posted February 1, 2020 A significant number of servers in the AWS® cloud run on Linux®. As such, DevOps engineers want to pair the open source OS with...
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30 Jan

Critical OpenSMTPD Bug Opens Linux and OpenBSD Mail Servers to Hackers

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-7247) in the OpenSMTPD email server that could allow remote attackers to take complete control over BSD and many Linux based servers. OpenSMTPD is an open-source implementation of the server-side SMTP protocol...
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6 Dec

New Linux Bug Lets Attackers Hijack Encrypted VPN Connections

A team of cybersecurity researchers has disclosed a new severe vulnerability affecting most Linux and Unix-like operating systems, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, macOS, iOS, and Android, that could allow remote ‘network adjacent attackers’ to spy on and tamper with encrypted VPN...
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27 Nov

Latest Kali Linux OS Added Windows-Style Undercover Theme for Hackers

You can relate this: While working on my laptop, I usually prefer sitting at a corner in the room from where no one should be able to easily stare at my screen, and if you’re a hacker, you must have...
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