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 […]
this really raises the question: the mobile (complete computer) phone (number) as key to everything? is it a good idea to rely on smart phones (that are essentially a very small laptop and a cellular modem) and phone numbers to […]
the “perb” seems to be SELinux “missing context”. SELinux vs AppArmor https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/29378/comparison-between-apparmor-and-selinux hostnamectrl; # tested on CentOS Linux 7 (Core) Kernel: Linux 3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64 # with latest updates as available in 2020-02 As told above, try first: setenforce 0; # temporarily […]
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 […]
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 […]
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/ Crysis 1 – was not only – another shooter – it had a unique idea: what if one had a suite – like Iron Man? (why is there no Iron Man game? oh hang on … there is one) […]
Almost 10 years after it’s release – Mass Effect 2 grafix are still pretty pretty 🙂 the Mass Effect 2 setup was not working. When one inserts DVD2 and hits “retry” nothing happens. “simply copy all the files from the […]
firewall & the GNU-Linux Pinguin: firewalls: where do thy go? and does thee protect from DDoS? as always in software development and as always in GNU Linux, there is not “one” firewall system, no, there are many and it is […]
apologize! games = windows, still ? (although there are 6000 steam games running on linux) the very first “Open Source GPU” is in the making: https://www.crowdsupply.com/libre-risc-v/m-class “The Libre RISC-V M-Class is a RISC-V chip that is libre-licensed to the bedrock. […]
update: “The sale was met with significant opposition since it involved the transfer of what is viewed as a public asset to a private equity investment firm.[45] In late January 2020, ICANN halted its final approval of the sale after […]
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 […]
BitPaymer attack has blocked the work of the industrial giant Pilz one of the largest manufacturers of industrial automation tools Pilz GmbH & Co. KG Type GmbH & Co. KG Industry Automation technology Founded 1948 Headquarters Ostfildern , Germany Revenue […]
Another reason to NOT trust EVERY human task to machines… unless one wants to get killed by a robot dressed up as dinosaur. “great” X-D “Japanese travel agent H. I. S. Group ignored warnings about a vulnerability in its Tapia […]
updated:2020-08: it is not easier than ever to find the correct public key. (thanks god! why so complicated f-droid?) md5 signatures could be forged, sha512sums imho not yet, but checking those crc checksums is straight forward, all one needs is […]
https://dwaves.de/2023/08/07/looking-for-a-new-soc-or-sbc-new-version-of-starfive-visionfive-2-risc-v-sob-soc-battle-rages-on-raspberry-pi-4-vs-odroid-n2l/ Update: 2023: there seems to be a new version “StarFive VisionFive 2 JH7110 64bit SoC” with 4GB RAM for 84,49 Bucks or 114,49 Bucks for the 8GB RAM version CPU performance is between Raspberry Pi3 and Pi34 also remarkable: price-wise it […]
spoiler alert: this is work in progress… was told by Adaptec support to upgrade firmware. did not do that yet – because firmware upgrades on production systems are sometimes very risky endeavors. one of the most important features of a […]
Stay up to date on IT-Security: SmartPhones sind wie komplette Computer – Plus: noch weiterer Funktionen. D.h. eigentlich muss man die IT-Security von SmartPhones genauso handhaben wie die aller anderer Computer. D.h. Regelmäßige Updates (automatisch oder halb-automatisch, Virenscanner, Firewall… you […]
running esxi inside virtualbox vm is just a test, to play with it, unfortunately one will not be able to start vms on it, because of the lack of nested virtualization. (could/should work nested inside quemu-kvm?) the problem: should have […]
Update: kvm is also a good alternative, but only on linux hosts, so if the user plans to move vms between linux and windows hosts, virtualbox is the way to go. Update: 2020-02: VirtualBox 6.1 is available in repository “Debian […]
screw Qualcomm, what one wants is should work out of the box with recent Linux kernels on Open Source drivers only: https://dwaves.de/2019/07/03/recommended-tested-hardware-superb-wifi-wlan-adapter-chipset-atheros-ar9285-mini-pcie-for-gnu-linux-debian-10-ubuntu-and-trisquel-8-0-test-run-on-lenovo-t440-and-librebooted-lenovo-x60s/ as far as i understand this… if you are concerned about the security of your phone… (banking apps… […]
“Linux desktop remains an unpopular choice among mainstream desktop users, making up a little more than 2% of the desktop operating system market share. This is in contrast to the web server market share, which consists of 70% of Linux-based operating systems. […]
servers/clients/computers/programs/services/webservers need accurate time… they usually get it from time servers that have an atomic clock attached to their USB port. (just guessing) ping time.google.com PING time.google.com (216.239.35.4) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from time2.google.com (216.239.35.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=43.5 […]
update: 2020-05 for whatever reason the following SSHDroid app does not work anymore. please checkout the even easier to use (default port: 2222) and setup: SimpleSSHD (Easy to use SSH server) – https://f-droid.org/app/org.galexander.sshd # start the ssh server app # […]
to be straight: have not managed yet to unlock a pin locked ipad 3 and ipad 4 and/or recover the data. it is easy to just overwrite the ipad with the latest firmware via itunes. but i want to backup […]
were you annoyed by Youtube Ads? Me not. thanks to addons like uBlock. don’t know about u but imho ads blocking imho is “SELF DEFENSE” against trash for the brain. “show me the src” https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/tree/master/dist#build-instructions-for-developers Firefox Addons & Privacy – […]
2018-04: RISC-V CPUs not affected by spectre & meltdown “No announced RISC-V silicon is susceptible, and the popular open-source RISC-V Rocket processor is unaffected as it does not perform memory accesses speculatively.” (2018-01-05 src) “If you’re selling an IoT sensor […]
… this is why no usb stick and no cable can be trusted… Thunderbolt / PCI-Express is having similar issues “Abstract—Direct Memory Access (DMA) attacks have beenknown for many years: DMA-enabled I/O peripherals have com-plete access to the state of […]
the affordable 100% Open Source phone: update: 2021-01 “the best (most privacy & security & usability) Smart Phone solution” is yet to be found (PinePhone (yet untested) comes close) and it would be like: runs standard unmodified GNU Linux kernel […]
really don’t understand how a SoC with 3GB of RAM (!) and a 8x Core ARM can be put to the bin (as Debian GNU Linux runs on devices with as little as 1GB RAM and 2x Cores) because there […]
are tool to bring you this cool gnome based file indexing and searching tool… that i generally distrust X-D funny enough: windows and osx come with such “we index and md5sum every single file on your computer” as well… suspiciously. […]