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I always had a loose understanding that a CVE score gave a broad-brush overview of how impactful a vulnerability is and how urgently it needs to be addressed – however I am questioning my understanding based on CVE-2024-10957 (Vulnerabilit… Continue reading Understanding CVE score
I have searched online, but have not been able to find anything about this.
I understand the PKFail can compromise the boot process by allowing a signed key to sign malware to insert into the UEFI, and I can understand that this can compro… Continue reading Does Bitlocker provide a degree of protection from PKFail?
I’ve recently been tightening up drive-by hacking on my systems, and a legitimate (but relatively technically illiterate user) was banned by a fail2ban rule which detected something a bit weird. The log file looks like –
websitename.nz:44… Continue reading Weird traffic pattern on HTTPS . Can anyone identify what is going on?
This question relates to a comment on a question I posted at https://askubuntu.com/questions/1426688/sudo-with-a-userid-reverting-old-behaviour?noredirect=1#comment2484447_1426688
Specifically, in Ubuntu 18.04 I could run a command like &q… Continue reading sudo with a USERID
I live in a location which is semi-rural. I also share this Internet access with some people nearby. Although bandwidth is a bit limited (VDSL), other then those imposed by the connection speed there are no data limits, and I’m not ove… Continue reading Is using my address for WIFI SSID a bad idea?
I have an acquaintance that has lost USD 10k – 20k in a Cryptocurrency Investment scam. I strongly suspect he is about to get involved in what in my mind would be a "Crypto Currency Scam Recovery Scam" – which I posit to be a… Continue reading Are Bitcoin Scam Recovery business a scam? [closed]
Among other things, I use clamscan on my web servers website directories to help find compromised websites. Unfortunately the time to do this scan is becoming onerous.
Are there any good reasons not to ignore the scanning of .jpg and .pn… Continue reading Is is safe to skip virus scanning for image files?
I received a notice from maldetect on an Apache machine I’m running, and I’ve not seen an advice like this before. I’d like to get a better understanding of exactly what I am looking at. I received the following email from the system:
H… Continue reading Explanation for maldetect advice
I am running an Android One (ie vanilla Android supported by Google) phone which has Android 8.1. I have unlocked the bootloader and rooted my device.
Because I’ve rooted my device I have not been able to apply “System Upda… Continue reading Quantifying risk of not upgrading Android (ie Android 8.1 to newer version)
I am running an Android One (ie vanilla Android supported by Google) phone which has Android 8.1. I have unlocked the bootloader and rooted my device.
Because I’ve rooted my device I have not been able to apply “System Upda… Continue reading Quantifying risk of not upgrading Android (ie Android 8.1 to newer version)