Told You So

The Internet of Things is a security nightmare reveals latest real-world analysis: unencrypted traffic, network crossover, vulnerable OSes

And the best part of it? Hospitals are most at risk

US telcos tossed yet another extension to keep going with Huawei kit despite America's 'security threat' concerns   Yes, we're damn serious about security.

This after we gave them $1 billion to help them change gear.

Anonymous secret sharing app Whisper left sensitive profile data exposed for years   The database was not password protected and anyone could search and download it

Who are they hiring to do this stuff?

Nobody. Bob the janitor did it for free.

Some mobile ad-blockers and VPNs siphoning user data, report finds

Who coulda seen that coming? It's just an analytics company....

L1ght Looks to Protect Internet Users from Toxic and Predatory Behavior

I can guarantee no good will come of this. But it's for the children......

LINUX  

How to Start Linux Command in Background and Detach Process in Terminal

You-Get – downloader that scrapes the web

How to Enable Nested Virtualization in VirtualBox on Linux

Would that be a swallow's nest? Swallows are non-migratory

Automatically Optimize CPU Speed And Power With Auto-cpufreq In Linux

7 tips to speed up your Linux command line navigation

Your spouse yelling "HURRY UP" is not one of them

Symantec Won't Defend Against Coronavirus

7 Cloud Attack Techniques You Should Worry About

US Govt Shares Tips to Defend Against Coronavirus Cyber Scams

AMD Ryzen 4000 Laptops Will Allegedly Last up to 18 Hours

provided you don't turn it on.....

New AMD Side Channel Attacks Discovered, Impacts Zen Architecture (AMD Responds)

'Unfixable' boot ROM security flaw in millions of Intel chips could spell 'utter chaos' for DRM, file encryption, etc

McAfee doesn't protect against coronavirus

Coronavirus warning spreads computer virus

Zynga faces class action suit over massive Words With Friends hack

Windows Explorer Used by Mailto Ransomware to Evade Detection

Carnival Cruise Line Operator Discloses Potential Data Breach

The Linux Foundation is Sometimes Against Linux and Its Official Blog Posts Come From Microsoft Veterans This Month (Nowadays It's Not Even Shocking)

You can now jailbreak an iPhone with an Android phone

Open Snitching

Let's (not) Encrypt discovers CAA bug, must revoke customer certificates






LINUX

Are you ready?
Open Snitch is available, forked from the original, which went tits-up.
It monitors outgoing traffic, like a firewall. You can control connections per app.

Ubuntu shortcuts everyone should know
except, possibly, non-Ubuntu users


Bash script to check how long the high CPU/memory consumption processes runs


Pkill command
killall is much more satisfying


Wine 5.3 released.
Comes with much stuff


Watching activity with watch and tail commands

Set Up the Jails!

WireGuard - fast, modern and secure VPN tunnel


How to set up chroot jails


How to create and launch Ubuntu VMs with Multipass


Android-x86 9.0 released - run Android 9 Pie on your pc


Hiding Windows file extensions is a security risk - enable now
This title was brought to you by 1998


Windows 10 1909 starts getting Microsoft's fluent icons
Users who have updates turned off will get these first


Hackers can use ultrasonic waves to secretly control voice assistant devices
If these things murdered family members, people wouldn't unplug them...


GhostCat - high risk vuln affects servers running Apache Tomcat

Internet of Shit Strikes Again

New wifi vulnerability only affects over a billion devices. Not to worry.

Unpatched security flaws open connected vacuum to takeover

Internet of Flaws for me, please. A huge frickin slow motion train wreck.

Hackers scanning for vulnerable MS Exchange Servers - patch now

Or, you know, use linux





LINUX


How to recover a root password in Red Hat based systems

How to clear swap memory

swap it out.

How to create a user that cannot log in

Sysadmins - your troubles are over  

Red Hat enterprise 7 and CentOS 7 receive important kernel security update

Microsoft wants to do away with Windows 10 local accounts.
Suggestion: do away with Windows 10.


Multiple WordPress plugin vulnerabilities actively being attacked
I feel safe with WordPress because it gets patches out quickly.
I'd rather not patch WordPress every week.


How to install PHP7 on CentOS 7
very carefully


MySQL create user accounts and grant privileges


Firefox now getting its own sandbox
In which you cannot play




LINUX

Top 48 linux interview questions and answers

1. Do you use linux?
2. Ever see a server?
3. HIRED!

Wait command with examples
Nah -I don't wait well.