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  • Security advisories for Wednesday
  • Google: QuadRooter Threat Blocked On Most Android Devices
  • Linux Distributions Vulnerable to Cyber-Attacks: Report
  • Windows 10 Attack Surface Grows with Linux Support in Anniversary Update [Ed: Does Kaspersky not know CrowdStrike is a Microsoft-connected firm that spreads Linux FUD?]
  • Web pages, Word docs, PDF files, fonts – behold your latest keys to infecting Windows PCs

    Microsoft has fixed 38 CVE-listed security vulnerabilities in Edge, Internet Explorer, and Office, as well as high-profile flaws that have allowed researchers to circumvent Windows boot protections.

    None of the programming blunders were publicly disclosed or actively exploited in the wild prior to today's patch release.

  • If census site was taken down after DDoS attack it wasn't prepared: expert

    The attack against the census website that resulted in it being taken down last night appears, at face value, to have been nothing more than the standard attack perpetrated against countless sites every day by everyone from children to malcontents with an axe to grind, an expert says.

    That the site was attacked is not in the least bit surprising, security adviser Troy Hunt told Fairfax Media, but it was unexpected that an attack of this kind would result in the site going down.

  • Census 2016: ABS needs to provide proof of DDoS

    Technical people like him are what we need to cut through all the bulldust. One person who is an expert in this art is Craig Sanders, a systems administrator of many decades, and one who can speak plainly. Many years ago, following a major distributed denial of service of attack on the Internet's root name servers, he was one who educated me on the phenomenon. This time was no different with Sanders; he calmly and clearly pointed me in the direction of the evidence that was needed.

    If the census website crashed due to foreign intervention — either through a denial of service or a distributed denial of service — how is it that none of the major security companies around the world did not notice it? You would need an attack of some magnitude to take down the ABS census site.

  • Researchers crack Microsoft feature, say encryption backdoors similarly crackable [Ed: by design]

    Researchers who uncovered a security key that protects Windows devices as they boot up say their discovery is proof that encryption backdoors do not work.

    The pair of researchers, credited by their hacker nicknames MY123 and Slipstream, found the cryptographic key protecting a feature called Secure Boot.

    They believe the discovery highlights a problem with requests law enforcement officials have made for technology companies to provide police with some form of access to otherwise virtually unbreakable encryption that might be used by criminals.

    “Microsoft implemented a ‘secure golden key’ system. And the golden keys got released from [Microsoft's] own stupidity,” wrote the researchers in their report, in a section addressed by name to the FBI.

    “Now, what happens if you tell everyone to make a ‘secure golden key’ system? Hopefully you can add 2+2.”

    Secure Boot is a built into the firmware of computer — software unique to different types of hardware that exists outside the operating system and is used to boot the OS.

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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.

  • molecule test: failed to connect to bus in systemd container - openQA bites

    Ansible Molecule is a project to help you test your ansible roles. I’m using molecule for automatically testing the ansible roles of geekoops.

  • How To Install MongoDB on AlmaLinux 9 - idroot

    In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MongoDB on AlmaLinux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, MongoDB is a high-performance, highly scalable document-oriented NoSQL database. Unlike in SQL databases where data is stored in rows and columns inside tables, in MongoDB, data is structured in JSON-like format inside records which are referred to as documents. The open-source attribute of MongoDB as a database software makes it an ideal candidate for almost any database-related project. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the MongoDB NoSQL database on AlmaLinux 9. You can follow the same instructions for CentOS and Rocky Linux.

  • An introduction (and how-to) to Plugin Loader for the Steam Deck. - Invidious
  • Self-host a Ghost Blog With Traefik

    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.