How to patch Sudo
CVE-2021-3156: Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in Sudo (Baron Samedit) made itself known over the past few days and admins everywhere are rushing to patch it. Ill skip the analysis, watch the video below for that, and get right to patching.
Free PHP Malware and Security scanners [Part 1]
Exakat Exakat is a tool for analyzing, reporting and assessing PHP code source efficiently and systematically. Exakat processes PHP 5.2 to 7.4 and 8.0 code, as well as reporting on security, performance, code quality, migration. –Exakat docs Static… Read More
HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC coming to a chrome near you
But first…. Are we really at http/3? and what the heck is IETF QUIC? QUIC is a new networking transport protocol that combines the features of TCP, TLS, and more. HTTP/3 is the latest version of HTTP, the… Read More
Mastodon Is Better than Twitter: Elevator Pitch
Great article on why you should choose Mastodon (not the band even though they are great and I would choose them over Twitter any day) Vs Twitter Mastodon is a newcomer social media platform that is a lot… Read More
Politicians Concerned Crypto can Influence Elections – Should Focus on Firing Politicians Instead
There are many great arguments here posted hee brings up some great ideas. what do you think? 100% via (decentralized tv) https://decentralized.tv/politicians-concerned-crypto-can-influence-elections-should-focus-on-firing-politicians-instead/
Simple Script to check sha certificate expiration date
I came across this problem over the weekend. I needed to know quickly the expiry date for our new SHA-2 certificate. After some googleing I patched together this script. OPENSSL=”/usr/bin/openssl” HOST=$1 PORT=$2 if [ “$HOST” == “” ];… Read More
Configuring RSYNC for backups to AWS
Backups are important, we all understand this. Backups are also offered by most major services like Linode, which is a great failsafe. The problem that occurs when you have a need to use that backup to restore your… Read More