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Sysadmin Ramblings Basic Installation Install Ubuntu 16.04LTS Make sure you update your newly installed system with the latest patches – security updates. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Openvas9 is available a… Continue reading Openvas 9 on Ubuntu Setup
Once you have install OpenVAS it is a good idea to ensure it is kept up to date and running the latest security scripts to find the latest vulnerabilities as well as sync to the […]
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10-year-old Cassidy Warner says she has been bullied since the first grade and made a public plea on Facebook to put an end to it. In an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo, she said that […]
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The password to access OpenVas vulnerability scanner with username ‘admin’ is created during the initial setup. At times you forget the password or want to reset it. This can be accomplished by resetting the password using […]
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Starting this past Monday, Facebook started to inform users if their data may have been shared with Cambridge Analytica. The social media company is informing affected users at the top of “News Feeds.” The alert, […]
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NOTICE OF DATA BREACH To the MyFitnessPal Community: We are writing to notify you about an issue that may involve your MyFitnessPal account information. We understand that you value your privacy and we take the […]
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An article by Julius White at WEAA.org: Ransomware. Privacy. User Data. Facebook. Hacked. Those words and phrases have been all over the news in the past couple of weeks. Just last week, the City of […]
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The accounts of about 150 million users of nutrition-tracking app MyFitnessPal were breached last month, Under Armour (UAA) said Thursday, adding its name to the list of corporations targeted by hackers. Hackers gained access to […]
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The OpenVAS developers are happy to announce a round of maintenance releases for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System release 9 (OpenVAS-9). This round includes the following releases: – OpenVAS Libraries 9.0.2 – OpenVAS Scanner 5.1.2 [… Continue reading Open Vulnerability Assessment System release 9 (OpenVAS-9)
p-smash DoS (ICMP 9 flood) Vulnerability Severity p-smash DoS (ICMP 9 flood) 7.8 (High) Summary – It was possible to crash the remote machine by flooding it with ICMP type 9 packets. Vulnerability Detection Result […]
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