So Linux Live CDs based around hacking or penetration testing used to be a super big deal, they died down a bit in the last few years. The king of the hill back in 2011 used to be BackTrack and the last time we mentioned it was when BackTrack 5 came out. This article is […]
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Serious Linux/UNIX FTP Flaw Allows Command Execution
A lot of old bugs have been biting us on the butt lately, and here’s another to add to the list. This week it was discovered a fairly nasty FTP Flaw Allows Command Execution when using the old but still fairly widely used. tnftp client It’s a fairly unlikely set of circumstances however, and it […]
OpenVPN Vulnerable To Shellshock Exploit
So last week the big news was about the cross platform exploit in BASH that we covered in our article – Everything You NEED To Know About Shellshock Bug In BASH. As mentioned in the comments, a certain combination of circumstances and configuration options can leave OpenVPN vulnerable to Shellshock. This could be a pretty […]
Everything You NEED To Know About Shellshock Bug In BASH
Shellshock (CVE-2014-6271) the bug in BASH is causing havoc on the Internet this week, as far as I’m concerned it’s a bit overstated – seriously how many people are still using cgi scripts? None I hope. I do suspect though a lot of shared hosts might get owned by this as most commercial control panel […]
Lynis v1.6.0 Released For Download – Linux Security Auditing Tool
Lynis is an open source linux security auditing tool. The primary goal is to help users with auditing and hardening of Unix and Linux based systems. The software is very flexible and runs on almost every Unix based system (including Mac). Even the installation of the software itself is optional! It’s a great tool for […]