Miscellaneous Tech News

[dbeato]

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/wordpress-warning-major-hole-serious-risk-cve/

Here's a fix for it until WordPress fixes it: https://github.com/Quitten/WordPress/blob/master/wp-dos-patch.sh

I got that from here: http://baraktawily.blogspot.com/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html

Awesome.

[Obsolesce]

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/wordpress-warning-major-hole-serious-risk-cve/

Oh I didn't read your link all the way to the bottom, the same fix is linked there too.

[JaredBusch]

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/wordpress-warning-major-hole-serious-risk-cve/

WTF WordPress.

[dbeato]

@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/wordpress-warning-major-hole-serious-risk-cve/

WTF WordPress.

Yeah, I was surprised by their answer as if it was not a security vulnerability at all...

[scottalanmiller]

What's new in the Linux 4.16 kernel.

[scottalanmiller]

AMD Raven Ridge APUs due out tomorrow.

[scottalanmiller]

What's coming in Kodi 18 due later this year?

[scottalanmiller]

Oracle still trying to get DTrace on Linux.

[Obsolesce]

Cryptomining Supply Chain Attack Hits Government Websites

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2018/02/cryptomining-javascript-supply-chain-attack/?utm_source=list&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=021118

[scottalanmiller]

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Cryptomining Supply Chain Attack Hits Government Websites

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2018/02/cryptomining-javascript-supply-chain-attack/?utm_source=list&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=021118

So surprised...

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/617/851/56d.gif

[dbeato]

Telegram Zero Day Vulnerability
https://securelist.com/zero-day-vulnerability-in-telegram/83800/

[scottalanmiller]

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Telegram Zero Day Vulnerability
https://securelist.com/zero-day-vulnerability-in-telegram/83800/

[JaredBusch]

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Telegram Zero Day Vulnerability
https://securelist.com/zero-day-vulnerability-in-telegram/83800/

Patched prior to release of article. Telegram accepted the security researchers data and fixed the application.

[dbeato]

http://www.zdnet.com/article/skype-cannot-fix-security-bug-without-a-massive-code-rewrite/

[JaredBusch]

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/skype-cannot-fix-security-bug-without-a-massive-code-rewrite/

Hahahaha and that is atotally different answer from a different company..

WTF, who cares about security.

[Obsolesce]

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/skype-cannot-fix-security-bug-without-a-massive-code-rewrite/

At least the System account doesn't have network share access (typically).

[DustinB3403]

Another Zero Day, this time with Adobe Flash and IE.

[black3dynamite]

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/ubuntu-18-04-minimal-install-option

Should've removed Amazon web app too.

[black3dynamite]

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/ubuntu-data-collection-opt-out

[NashBrydges]

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/ubuntu-data-collection-opt-out

This is probably one of the least invasive data collection templates I've seen.