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.
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 analysis of code is a great tool to use whether for unit testing or in this case security vulnerabilities and malware infestations.
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 protocol that carries the vast majority of Web traffic. HTTP/3 only runs over QUIC. Why do we need this? Blame the xennials.
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 like Twitter—short messages, followers, hashtags, all that. But Mastodon is much better than Twitter, and not just because being totally ad-free and
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/
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” == “” ]; then echo ‘Usage: check.sh hostname.com fi if [ “$PORT” == “” ]; then PORT=”443″ fi CMD=`echo “” | $OPENSSL s_client -connect $HOST:$PORT
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 system is that you are relying on Linode’s latest backup whenever that was (usually within 24 hours). For some a ~24 code