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The news that XZ Utils, a compression utility present in most Linux distributions, has been backdoored by a supposedly trusted maintainer has rattled the open-source software community on Friday, mere hours until the beginning of a long weekend for man… Continue reading XZ Utils backdoor update: Which Linux distros are affected and what can you do?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from GamingOnLinux: After repeatedly suffering issues with scam apps making it onto the Snap Store, Canonical maker of Ubuntu Linux have now decided to manually look over submissions. I’ve covered the issues with the… Continue reading Canonical Now Doing Manual Reviews For New Packages Due To Scam Apps
In this article, we share our analysis of a recent version of the DinodasRAT implant for Linux, which may have been active since 2022. Continue reading DinodasRAT Linux implant targeting entities worldwide
BrianFagioli shares a report from BetaNews: Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu operating system, has announced a significant extension to the support lifecycle of its long-term support (LTS) releases. The new paid Legacy Support add-on fo… Continue reading Ubuntu Linux LTS Releases Get Up To 12 Years of Support
On my fresh Hetzner Cloud server, the ufw seems to be ineffective. The status output is the following:
Status: active
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OpenSSH ALLOW… Continue reading UFW does not block any ports (Ubuntu 22.04) [migrated]
“2004 was already an eventful year for Linux,” writes ZDNet’s Jack Wallen. “As I reported at the time, SCO was trying to drive Linux out of business. Red Hat was abandoning Linux end-user fans for enterprise customers by closing down Red Hat Linux 9 an… Continue reading ‘Canonical Turns 20: Shaping the Ubuntu Linux World’
I am testing this VMBR concept in my environment (for research purposes).
Since I am very new to this concept, want to understand how this VMBR or Subvirt and Bluepill can be implemented; is it possible?
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To start, I am working with CoV… Continue reading Want to know about Virtual Machine Based Rootkit (Subvirt & Blue Pill rootkits) [closed]
I have found out that a strangers printer had been connected to my localhost:631. How do I use Lynis to retrieve any possible information about it’s interactions with my computer from system logs? Is it even possible?
Are there any other s… Continue reading Can you use Lynis to retrieve data on connected printers from the system logs? [closed]
If we buy for instance a laptop with an OS pre-installed e.g. Ubuntu and but the original seller was not reputable and there are doubts with the preinstall.
My question is: if we use the laptop to download Ubuntu and create a USB bootable … Continue reading Creating bootable USB from a compromised OS. Is it safe?
If we buy for instance a laptop with an OS pre-installed e.g. Ubuntu and but the original seller was not reputable and there are doubts with the preinstall.
My question is: if we use the laptop to download Ubuntu and create a USB bootable … Continue reading Creating bootable USB from a compromised OS. Is it safe?