Category: General / Allgemein

what if – instead of security – Google wants mass surveillance and a direct uplink to the US-Pentagon to blow all “terrorists” (basically anyone who is against Google) to hell? What if? as long as EVIL pays off (incentive) this […]

the for loop when the user wants a command to be run exactly x times for i in $(seq 1 5); do echo $i; done # for example generate a file with 1 million lines # and messure the time […]

The Great A.I. Awakening: A Conversation with Eric Schmidt Feb 23, 2017 as user might have noticed, the battle Amazon vs Microsoft who will get the $10Billion DoD cloud computing contract is still hot. And maybe the contract is split. […]

SecurityLab, [04.06.20 15:05] The Chinese-language cybercrime group Cycldek (also known as Goblin Panda or Conimes) has developed the malicious tool USBCulprit to carry out attacks on physically isolated systems and steal confidential data. Cycldek APT has developed a malware for […]

the nice: NAT is nice as it provides some form of protection/shielding of vms from the internet, by placing the host between (doing all the fire walling) the problem: server is exposed to regular dovecot and exim password bruteforce attempts, […]

KEEP BLUETOOTH OFF AT ALL TIMES! (switch it on when you need it and off when done (file transfer etc)) also saves energy on phones does usage of stylish ear bud bluetooth headsets increases security risk? (Bluetooth permanent on) this […]

versus is the wrong word. They are both great great GNU Linux distributions with a different focus and imho the perfect combination. Debian (apt based) “the universal operating system” (because has great hardware compatibility amd64 (64Bit intel) arm64 armel armhf […]

the idea is: ssh is running on 22 what if user can connect localport 2222<->22 and user can then connect to localport:2222 and it will be forwarded to localport:22? and YES IT IS POSSIBLE 🙂 which the massively complex socat: […]

The Future of rpm package management: dnf DNF is the next generation of package management for redhat based operating systems. Currently, it exists as a fork of yum 3.4 that use libsolv as its dependency solver. It is currently in […]

update: 2020-05: printer works – with ubuntu 12 as virtualbox 6.1 vm (should also work with ubuntu 16, untested) with printers and GNU Linux it is usually like this: plug & print … 3 days later, it actually printed a […]

guess with it-security and internet-security (internet = roads, cars = computers that users use every day) it is like with real-life-security – there is no 100% security. all users of a system are in constant potential danger of having an […]

setup LAMP Linux Apache2 MariaDB PHP7.3 su – root; # become root apt update; # update system to latest apt upgrade; # database first apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client # set root pwd for database (can be root on dev test […]

As part of the April “fix Tuesday”, Microsoft fixed 113 vulnerabilities in various products, including three zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows that were used in attacks to execute arbitrary code and increase privileges. Two zero-day issues (CVE-2020-1020 and CVE-2020-0938) were contained […]

sorry this post will have to do nothing with linux X-D (unless one is pretty sure all those corona overview and prediction dashboards run on gnu linux servers) … what Mr Gates probably underestimated, that because of globalization and maximizing […]

1984 mass surveillance: for a better world? as people might have noticed: privacy is survival critical when a state becomes tyranny. WARNING! violent and disturbing! but highly recommend to anyone to watch it – at least once – the “middle […]

recompressing mobile phone videos can save significant amount of (precious ssd) disk space. it is very cpu intense – so either bring massive amounts of cpu power or massive amounts of runtime 🙂 on 4x threads Core(TM) i5-4200U CPU the […]

https://theintercept.com/2020/04/03/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover/ hm…. let me think where one has seen this before: TELEGRAM! Zoom’s service is “not suited for secrets” “The researchers also found that Zoom protects video and audio content using a home-grown encryption scheme, that there is a vulnerability […]

check it out on: https://nmap.org/favicon/ done with nmap, pretty NOICE! how is it created? “scanning the top million web sites for 2013 (as ranked by the analytics company Alexa). (bought up by Amazon in 1996) We then downloaded each site’s […]

SecurityLab, [26.03.20 08:10] The largest free hosting provider on the darknet, Daniel’s Hosting, was hacked for the second time in 16 months, and stopped working on Wednesday, March 25. Unknown attackers deleted the entire database of the hosting provider, as […]

SecurityLab, [24.03.20 08: 05] Cybercriminals hack Windows PCs through a previously unknown vulnerability in the Adobe Type Manager library (atmfd.dll) used by the operating system to process PostScript type 1 fonts. Microsoft described attacks exploiting this vulnerability as “targeted” and […]

SecurityLab, [24.12.19 10: 05] An attempt by Chinese farmers to fight drones infecting pigs with African plague has disabled the navigation systems of some aircraft. According to the South China Morning Post, an unauthorized GPS signal jamming device was installed […]

First of: Love Libre Office! Use it on daily basis 🙂 Absolutely fantastic job! THANKS ALL INVOLVED! Tested with: To install an extension, follow these steps: Download an extension and save it anywhere on your computer. current as of writing […]

2012: Die FritzFax Software läuft gut unter Win XP. 2020: Die altbewährte und gut gemachte FritzFax software, welche 2012 so wunderbar ihren Dienst verrichtet hat, funktioniert, trotz gegenteiliger Aussage von Support und Internet… nicht. Die Software lies sich auf 3x […]

hostnamectl; # tested on Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-8-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 # find the umount binary /usr/bin/umount # this spelling problem # can drive one mad # if in a hurry ln -sv /usr/bin/umount /usr/bin/unmount # […]

Update: 2020-02 added “geany” is there an ideal IDE for every task? Nope. Of course just as programming languages every IDE has their pros and cons. (build for a specific purpose? might serve other purposes also) There is not a […]

pros: easy to use cons: too much GUI changes will piss off all people that got used to the GUI of Win XP and Win 7 congratulations! not Open Source not Free updates will cost money (Win 10 is just […]

# become root su – root; # rpm based yum install nmap # apt based apt install nmap # find snmp enabled devices # (UDP port 161, can not be tested with telnet (can only do TCP)) nmap -sU -p […]

  hostnamectl; # tested on Static hostname: debian Virtualization: oracle Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 # will install qcreator and qt5 library apt-get install qcreator qt5-default # “no valid kits found” # is due […]

“first Benchmarks of the KX-6780A. China just developed it’s own x86 CPU with the performance of a Intel Core i7 2600 (4C/8T, 1,401 points) from 2011 the eight-core CPU-Z achieves 171 points in single-core and 1,396 points in Multi-Core comparison […]

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