Grim, Vim, & Neovim – Paul’s Security Weekly #608

    In the Security News, the rise of purple teaming, the World’s largest beer brewer sets up a Cyber-security team, a mystery signal shutting down key fobs in an Ohio neighborhood, why hackers ignore most security flaws, and warnings of real wor… Continue reading Grim, Vim, & Neovim – Paul’s Security Weekly #608

Your Linux Can Get Hacked Just by Opening a File in Vim or Neovim Editor

Linux users, beware!

If you haven’t recently updated your Linux operating system, especially the command-line text editor utility, do not even try to view the content of a file using Vim or Neovim.

Security researcher Armin Razmjou recently discovere… Continue reading Your Linux Can Get Hacked Just by Opening a File in Vim or Neovim Editor

VIM Normalization

Linux users–including the ones at the Hackaday underground bunker–tend to fall into two groups: those that use vi and those that use emacs. We aren’t going to open that debate up again, but we couldn’t help but notice a new item on GitHub that potentially negates one of the biggest complaints non-vi users have, at least for vim which is the most common variant of vi in use on most modern systems. The vim keybinding makes vim behave like a “normal” editor (and to forestall flames, that’s a quote from the project page).

Normally vi starts out in a command …read more

Continue reading VIM Normalization