Wim Coekaerts: ksplice
As many of you probably know by now, a few days ago there was a report of an old long-standing Linux bug that got fixed. Going back to kernels even down to 2.6.18 and possible earlier. This bug was...
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Xavier Mertens: [SANS ISC Diary] Analysis of a Simple PHP Backdoor
I published the following diary on isc.sans.org: “Analysis of a Simple PHP Backdoor“.With the huge surface attack provided by CMS like Drupal or WordPress, webshells remain a classic attack scenario. A...
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Mattias Geniar: Mitigating PHP’s long standing issue with OPCache leaking...
The post Mitigating PHP’s long standing issue with OPCache leaking sensitive data appeared first on ma.ttias.be.A very old security vulnerability has been fixed in PHP regarding the way it handles its...
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Lionel Dricot: Printeurs 44
Ceci est le billet 44 sur 44 dans la série PrinteursNellio, Eva, Max et Junior sont dans la zone contrôlée par le conglomérat industriel.Dans un silence religieux, nous descendons tous les quatre de la...
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Mattias Geniar: DNS Spy enters public beta
The post DNS Spy enters public beta appeared first on ma.ttias.be.Here's an exciting announcement I've been dying to make: DNS Spy, a new DNS monitoring and alerting tool I've been working on, has...
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Julien Pivotto: mgmt
At Config Management Camp, James was once again presenting mgmt. He presented the project one year ago, on his blog. There are multiple ideas behind mgmt (as you can read on his blog):Parallel...
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Julien Pivotto: Augeas resource for mgmt
Last week, I joined the mgmt hackathon, just after Config Management Camp Ghent. It helped me understanding how mgmt actually works and that helped me to introduce two improvements in the codebase:...
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Sven Vermeulen: cvechecker 3.7 released
After a long time of getting too little attention from me, I decided to make a new cvechecker release. There are few changes in it, but I am planning on making a new release soon with lots of...
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Mattias Geniar: Log all queries in a Laravel CLI command
The post Log all queries in a Laravel CLI command appeared first on ma.ttias.be.For most web-based Laravel projects, you can use the excellent laravel-debugbar package to have an in-browser overview of...
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Xavier Mertens: [SANS ISC Diary] How your pictures may affect your website...
I published the following diary on isc.sans.org: “How your pictures may affect your website reputation“.In a previous diary, I explained why the automatic processing of IOC’s (“Indicator of...
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Claudio Ramirez: Split one flac (+ cue) file into separate tracks (update:...
You may have backupped your music cd’s using a single flac file instead of a file for each track. In case you need to split the cd-flac, do this:Install the needed software:$ sudo apt-get install...
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Sven Vermeulen: Handling certificates in Gentoo Linux
I recently created a new article on the Gentoo Wiki titled Certificates which talks about how to handle certificate stores on Gentoo Linux. The write-up of the article (which might still change name...
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Xavier Mertens: [SANS ISC Diary] Not All Malware Samples Are Complex
I published the following diary on isc.sans.org: “Not All Malware Samples Are Complex“.Everyday we hear about new pieces of malware which implement new techniques to hide themselves and defeat...
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Dries Buytaert: Making Drupal upgrades easy forever
One of the key reasons that Drupal has been successful is because we always made big, forward-looking changes. As a result, Drupal is one of very few CMSes that has stayed relevant for 15+ years. The...
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Mattias Geniar: CVE-2017-2636: Linux local privilege escalation flaw in ‘n_hdlc’
The post CVE-2017-2636: Linux local privilege escalation flaw in ‘n_hdlc’ appeared first on ma.ttias.be.This comes just weeks after the previous local root exploit (CVE-2017-6074 – local privilege...
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Mattias Geniar: WordPress on PHP 7.1
The post WordPress on PHP 7.1 appeared first on ma.ttias.be.Since I care about performance, features and security, I decided to upgrade my webservers' PHP version from 5.6 to the latest PHP 7.1.2. I...
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Xavier Mertens: [SANS ISC Diary] The Side Effect of GeoIP Filters
I published the following diary on isc.sans.org: “The Side Effect of GeoIP Filters“.IP location, GeoIP or Geolocalization are terms used to describe techniques to assign geographic locations to IP...
View ArticlePhilip Van Hoof: Binaries in git, release numbering, Git-Flow and Scrum at...
Funny how even the software developers at the CIA have problems with idiots who want to put binaries in git. They also know about Git-Flow, my preferred git branching workflow. I kind of wonder how...
View ArticleWim Coekaerts: Oracle Linux and Software Collections make it a great...
Oracle Linux major releases happen every few years. Oracle Linux 7 is the current version and this was released back in 2014, Oracle Linux 6 is from 2011, etc... When a major release goes out the door,...
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Mark Van den Borre: Google Summer of Code: play with embedded and FPGAs at...
Are you a Uni student and interested in hardware, FPGAs or embedded programming? You could get paid to hack by applying to the TimVideos.us organisation for Google Summer of Code!The TimVideos.us...
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