a well faked Mail Attachment.pdf.zip was opened by a team member, infecting a (Windows 10?) PC in the background browser login tokens in the form of cookies & browser passwords were exfiltrated mail attachments are STILL the #No1 threat in […]
Pwn2Own 2020: opening a pdf can be enough to compromise system! https://youtu.be/u1udr7j9MQA?t=359 90% of companies DO NOT NEED JavaScript or macros to run in PDF but still it is there… and Adobe knows about it: “JavaScripts in PDFs as a […]
Update: 2021-02 “A statement from the German Federal Criminal Police Office about their participation in Operation Ladybird said prosecutors seized 17 servers in Germany that acted as Emotet controllers.” and many bars of gold and cash were seized in Ukraine… […]
Pwn2Own 2020: opening a pdf can be enough to compromise system! https://youtu.be/u1udr7j9MQA?t=359 thank you ccc you are doing a lovely work – make this planet more interesting by creativity and more informed about security 🙂 keep it up 🙂 https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/gpn/gpn19/h264-hd/gpn19-45-eng-BADPDF_-_Stealing_Windows_Credentials_via_PDF_Files_hd.mp4 […]
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sudo apt-get install calibre To actually convert the EPUB file you can use the following command: ebook-convert file.epub file.pdf (For details, check this other answer)
Update: 2020-05 PDF are important file formats for document exchange, but in 2020 PDF as Mail-Attachments can not be 100% trusted anymore. how to create PDF under Linux? there are various programs that support export to PDF format least but […]
if you want to update / migrate to new version: i would use the live-update over backup-old-version and restore-on-new-version. But test this first on a local php xdebug test-server! (manually ftp / mysql copy all files / databases to your […]
There are not a lot of cross OS and cross CPU benchmarks and the user might know https://www.userbenchmark.com/ which is like Geekbench but only for windows geekbench.com is multi OS (not all) and multi (not all) CPU (developed by primatelabs.com […]
unable to pair? before feeling like a fool, because it won’t pair: fully charge the device (front led is green) Bluetooth pairing only works if the USB-to-analog mode is off via the switch on the side of the case: then […]
in 2021 wrote this article. “Open Letter to Mozilla – Google’s Browser dominance – is Firefox not listening to user’s needs/requests?” They at least – pretend to. Google says: Thank You Mrs Baker – you successfully destroyed the Firefox browser! […]
For inspiration to space travel, it is enough to watch the excellent-music scifi intros 😀 space travel inspirations – best most epic Sci Fi theme songs and intros current status quo of propulsion: SpaceX’s Starship 33x raptors (go raptors! go!) […]
(knowing that manually auto-translating Russian CyberSec news to English, is not a feasable concept and need to be automated, but as this blog is non-profit, it is for curiosity.) Booking.com found an authentication vulnerability that allows account hijacking A vulnerability […]
“WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin and Verizon are experimenting with 5G-enabled drones and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance payloads in an effort that could ultimately enhance U.S. military command and control and in-the-field targeting abilities. The two companies on Sept. 28 said […]
hardware used: AMD Ryzen 5600G Gigabyte Aorus B550 Elite AX v1 (Rev 1.1) 2x NVMe Kingston SA2000M81000G those are DATACENTER capable NVMes! (at a pretty nice price!) energy meassurements: meassured wattage when PC was idle (doing nothing): GNU Linux Debian […]
JavaScript screwed up …. AGAIN! (another example for “why is it NOT cool for executable script languages to be allowed to embedd into PDF or any other file format”) used to steal BILLIONS of NF… ucking Ts: https://research.checkpoint.com/2022/how-hackers-make-nfts-disappear/ really should […]
OF COURSE Dennis Ritchie is the father of C. (An appreciation of the late Dennis Ritchie) (src of the src) Ken Thompson: “was writing FORTRAN in TMG” “when it finally got down to 4k, called it B“ “B and C were […]
Efficiency is good in terms of: saving resources. Same results with less (power and other) input. BUT: good people need to be cultivated, by culture. Culture does not simply mean “gifts on Christmas” and “Lederhosen”. (that’s what it has become, […]
as most users know, Ubuntu (a Nguni Bantu term meaning “humanity”) is, still (luckily) based on GNU Linux Debian. But more software is not necessarily better. What Ubuntu nicely does: more recent kernel it aims for even greater hardware compatibility […]
# this will create a new compressed version of ‘folder-to-pack’ # but will not include any pdf fiels tar fcvz /path/to/package.tar.gz –exclude=’*.pdf’ /path/to/folder-to-pack # automatically include the current date in filename of backup file: tar fcvz /backups/$(date ‘+%Y-%m-%d’).filename.tar.gz –exclude=’*.pdf’ /path/to/backup
login to mysql: su – root; list all available databases: # login & send command to mysql & logout mysql -u root -e ‘show databases’ -s –skip-column-names # or login mysql -u root -p; # enter command mysql> show databases; […]
they are fast, they are small, they use very little energy (less than 30W), the Lenovo ThinkCentre M92p Tiny despite being also pretty old (2012/2013) it still rocks, the naming ain’t sexy, but they work very well. now let’s look […]
Brother HL-5450DN most older laser printers are pretty reliable and can made to work with GNU Linux (if they support App Socket / HP JetDirect (asigned fixed IP to printer and give exact IP)) there is even a firmware update, […]
Open Source is about enabling users “Amazon, Microsoft, Google” and the White House, want to help make Open Source more secure… https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-150-millionen-us-dollar-sollen-open-source-absichern-2205-165382.html https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-linux-foundation-will-security-praxis-vereinheitlichen-2008-150036.html src of src: “White House OSS Mobilization Plan” 2022: https://openssf.org/blog/2022/05/11/testimony-to-the-us-house-committee-on-science-and-technology/ 2020: “The OpenSSF is a cross-industry collaboration […]
IDE, SCSI, SATA, SAS now U.2 M.2… that reminds of… USB Cable Salad of Madness – USB 3.0 and WiFi interference – Micro-USB USB-C mess has finally arrived the list of interfaces grows by the year? no U.2 is not: […]
“FOSS means that effort is shared across organizations and lowers maintenance costs significantly” (src: comment by JohnFOSS on itsfoss.com) getting the naming right: Why is it GNU Linux and not just Linux? because it would given the developers who wrote […]
(might be already a bit older) Thunderbird – Hotkeys Shortcuts Cheatsheet.pdf
ZFS is probably THE most controversial filesytem in the known universe: “FOSS means that effort is shared across organizations and lowers maintenance costs significantly” (src: comment by JohnFOSS on itsfoss.com) “Mathematicians have a term for this. When you rearrange the […]
update: 2022: ah oh: Pine community in Pain? https://blog.brixit.nl/why-i-left-pine64/ “In February 2021, PINE64 announced the end of the community editions. At this moment, PINE64’s focus shifted from supporting a diverse ecosystem of distributions and software projects around the PinePhone to […]
the positive vision (always start with something positive) if big data about every keystroke every step we make (the police: every step you make) algorithms determine how mankind will live and thus: technology is “neutral” until it is used for […]