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Category: Security

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.

JetBrains software Teamcity possibly used in Solarwinds hack

In a New York Times article released on January 6, 2021, JetBrains and their Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/C) application Teamcity were confirmed to be used by recently hacked software company SolarWinds.

Cryptocurrency Users Targeted in Cross-Platform ElectroRAT Malware

Using Pastebin unique visitor counts for tracking, over 6,500 victims are estimated to be affected after detection of this malware in December. These numbers may…

Stop spammers commenting on WordPress media files

A website I worked on last year, recently had a wave of media spam comments hit my inbox. There is no easy way within WordPress to turn off commenting for media items, especially if you have >100 items and just want it DONE! The solution I found was a quick SQL query:

British court rejects extradition to U.S. of Julian Assange

The U.S. government has been waiting the British court’s ruling for some time now and on Monday (1/4/21) the court made their announcement. No extradition for Julian Assange on charges pertaining to illegally obtaining and sharing classified material related to national security.

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,…