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Security and Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) Tactics

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  • Security updates for Wednesday

    Security updates have been issued by Debian (kernel and privoxy), Fedora (libtpms, privoxy, and x11vnc), openSUSE (chromium), Red Hat (.NET 5.0, .NET Core, .NET Core 2.1, .NET Core 3.1, dotnet, and dotnet3.1), SUSE (git, kernel, openssl-1_1, and wpa_supplicant), and Ubuntu (git and openssh).

  • [Older] Use JoomScan to scan Joomla for vulnerabilities on Kali

    When installing a content management system for your website, it's easy to get lazy and assume that it's going to do all the work for you. A CMS like Joomla certainly does make things more convenient, and lets you publish a polished website very quickly, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't take some extra time to secure it.

  • Microsoft Security Researcher Proposes Unprivileged Chroot For Linux [Ed: The same company that puts back doors in everythinfg for the NSA is now posing as "security"; watch the replies in comments]

    Security researcher and Microsoft engineer Mickaël Salaün is proposing unprivileged chroot support for the Linux kernel.

  • Scanning for Secrets in Source Code [Ed: Wrongly insinuating people all use Microsoft proprietary software (NSA PRISM) prison called GitHub]

    As a developer, I admit that I’ve committed secrets to public Github repositories before. Hardcoded secrets have always been a problem in organizations and are one of the first things I look for during a penetration test.
    When developers write secrets such as passwords and API keys directly into source code, these secrets can make their way to public repos or application packages, then into an attacker’s hands. As microservice architectures and API-centric applications become mainstream, developers often need to exchange credentials and other secrets programmatically. This means that developers can sometimes make mistakes when handling sensitive data.

  • Researchers Unveil New Linux Malware Linked to Chinese Hackers [Ed: It seems possible that right about now, in order to distract from the Microsoft Exchange catastrophe (Microsoft uses xenophobia for blame-passing), they will spam or Googlebomb "Linux" with China malware something]

    Cybersecurity researchers on Wednesday shed light on a new sophisticated backdoor targeting Linux endpoints and servers that's believed to be the work of Chinese nation-state actors.

Feels like distraction

Way to distract from what happened to Microsoft Exchange

Chinese state hackers target Linux systems with new malware

The author worked many years

The author worked many years for Softpedia, so it’s no wonder...

Wow

I did not even remember that...

More FUD

More FUD

  • Linux systems targeted with dangerous new Chinese malware [Ed: Mayank Sharma participates in an apparent attempt to deflect/distract from the Microsoft scandal, which it blames on China instead of its own incompetence. They badmouth Linux using phony non-news and manufactured drama. Shame on them.]

Indian media adopts Microsoft slant that blames "China"

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today's howtos

  • How to install go1.19beta on Ubuntu 22.04 – NextGenTips

    In this tutorial, we are going to explore how to install go on Ubuntu 22.04 Golang is an open-source programming language that is easy to learn and use. It is built-in concurrency and has a robust standard library. It is reliable, builds fast, and efficient software that scales fast. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel-type systems enable flexible and modular program constructions. Go compiles quickly to machine code and has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. In this guide, we are going to learn how to install golang 1.19beta on Ubuntu 22.04. Go 1.19beta1 is not yet released. There is so much work in progress with all the documentation.

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  • How To Install MongoDB on AlmaLinux 9 - idroot

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  • An introduction (and how-to) to Plugin Loader for the Steam Deck. - Invidious
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    Ghost is a very popular open-source content management system. Started as an alternative to WordPress and it went on to become an alternative to Substack by focusing on membership and newsletter. The creators of Ghost offer managed Pro hosting but it may not fit everyone's budget. Alternatively, you can self-host it on your own cloud servers. On Linux handbook, we already have a guide on deploying Ghost with Docker in a reverse proxy setup. Instead of Ngnix reverse proxy, you can also use another software called Traefik with Docker. It is a popular open-source cloud-native application proxy, API Gateway, Edge-router, and more. I use Traefik to secure my websites using an SSL certificate obtained from Let's Encrypt. Once deployed, Traefik can automatically manage your certificates and their renewals. In this tutorial, I'll share the necessary steps for deploying a Ghost blog with Docker and Traefik.