Collaborate Disseminate
Luna (Slashdot reader #20,969) quotes the Devuan web site.
“Dear Friends and Software Freedom Lovers,” its announcement begins:
“Devuan Developers are delighted to announce the release of Devuan Chimaera 4.0 as the project’s new stable release. This… Continue reading Systemd-Free Devuan 4.0 ‘Chimaera’ Officially Released
In September 2021 Black Lotus Labs (BLL) posted a blog entry discussing a payload loader that was:
written in Python
compiled to an ELF exe using PyInstaller in Debian in WSL
and "injected into a running process using Windows API cal… Continue reading How can an ELF binary call a Windows API from WSL(2) to deploy a payload?
I recently found that the latest release of a major Linux distribution (MX Linux) uses DSA-1024 in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg and in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/*.gpg
It also probably uses SHA-1 as the signature algorithm (which is the most common on… Continue reading Is DSA-1024 safe to sign package repositories ? What are the reasons?
I recently set up a freeradius server and would like to change the user password that is presently in cleartext to encrypted in the /etc/freeradius/3.0/users file.
This is what it looks like on the server.
When I authenticate on the serve… Continue reading How to encrypt user password in Freeradius [migrated]
I’m trying to configure a
SecAction rule to help me tune ModSecurity 3 following this How to tune your WAF installation to reduce false positives tutorial, but the rule seems to be ignored and the msg is not printed either on access.log or… Continue reading Why is my SecAction rule being ignored?
On FreeBSD and recent releases of macOS, Fortuna is used.
What about Debian?
“One of the oldest and most renowned distributions of Linux has been released!” âwrites Slashdot reader Washuu2.
Phoronix reports it took “just over two years in development.”
Debian 11 brings many new features as outlined this morning with the b… Continue reading Debian 11 ‘Bullseye’ Released As Stable
A vulnerability (CVE-2021-33909) in the Linux kernel’s filesystem layer that may allow local, unprivileged attackers to gain root privileges on a vulnerable host has been unearthed by researchers. “Qualys security researchers have been able to in… Continue reading Researchers flag 7-years-old privilege escalation flaw in Linux kernel (CVE-2021-33909)
I need to create a virtual machine (Debian 10) with Virtualbox on a Linux host system. The VM will be used as an office desktop to access the Internet via browser and therefore needs to use the Internet-connection that is provided by the h… Continue reading How to protect the host system against a rootkit on a virtual machine?
I noticed that if I grep the system.map in Parrot Sec 4.10 for sys_call_table it returns three results. I have reason to believe the workstation I first did this on was compromised, so I installed a fresh copy of Parrot on another workstat… Continue reading Should Parrot Sec Contain 3 sys_call_table?