Security: Patch Management, Windows Keyloggers, and Fingerprinting MySQL
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Open Source Patch Management: Options for DIYers [Ed: "Linux comes with patch management," it says, which defeats much of the point of this article...]
CVE-2017-5638 is the code vulnerability that will long live in the corporate memory of Equifax, the credit ratings agency. A simple patch management system might have kept that vulnerability from turning into one of the most high-profile data breaches in recent memory.
CVE-2017-5638 is a remote code execution bug that affects the Jakarta Multipart parser in Apache Struts, an open source application framework for developing Java EE web applications. Remote code execution bugs are generally extremely serious, and for that reason, when the vulnerability was discovered, the Apache Foundation recommended that any developers or users of affected versions of Struts upgrade to later versions that had been patched to close the vulnerability.
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HP laptops found to have hidden keylogger
HP said more than 460 models of laptop were affected by the "potential [sic] security vulnerability".
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In May, a similar keylogger was discovered in the audio drivers pre-installed on several HP laptop models.
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Fingerprinting MySQL with scannerl
The goal here is to identify the version of MySQL running on a remote host.
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