PSA: CVE-2016-0718 Libexpat Bug Out The Expat XML Parser is a ubiquitous parser written in C that is included in a number of projects. If you have a C program that uses an XML parser it’s plausible that it could be included in your project. Links to patches to major distributions are below. Please patch… Read More »
BadLock Patches Links Hey there. I’ve been tracking packages for Badlock. All systems I’m tracking have now recieved patches. I’m not longer updating this page. Have a good one. Main Informational Links: Badlock Mitre Link Samba Release Notes Organization Notification Patches Available Canonical (Ubunutu) USN-2950-1 Yes Red Hat RH Notice Yes Microsoft MS16-047 Yes Samba… Read More »
AB-1681 is a controversial change and an undeniably bad one. However a recent modification to the bill has mad it worse. Originally Section 2-b (now Section 2-c) of the bill specified that just the manufacturer of a phone would be required to unencypt a phone. Putting big names like Apple, Google (with the Nexus) or… Read More »
Forbes, This is rediculous. I don’t use an adblocker. I will view your ads however at this moment you load 45 different javascript libraries that make your site as slow as dog shit. I will not disable my javascript library blocker for your “ad-light” experience that is rediculously slow. How slow? I have a fiber… Read More »
Using LVM Snapshots to do a Backup At my former job we had a process that required the main system to be stopped before the backup could begin. The model the built in backup script followed was: Shut down Software Backup Software Location(s) Start Software Back Up This piece of software wasn’t something where it… Read More »
So a couple of people on my team have been quoting a section of A Few Good Men recently. Additionally during a Pen test our pen tester was able to take out a number of our IP Phones. In response the following adaptaion of the the iconic response was created. I thought I’d share. Son,… Read More »
FreeBSD 10 Setup Virtualbox Guest Additions : Reprint Note for Visitors I’ve had to recover my website and this was one of my most popular posts. However between when I originally published this and now the FreeBSD handbook has come out with a page explicitly describing how to accomplish this task (Linked here for your… Read More »
How to Refresh a Non-Prod MySQL Database Hey guys just a quick tip I wanted to toss up there about refreshing Prod to Non-Prod Databases. Assuming that you’ve setup a system for pulling your Personal Information out of your production database (ideally through some sort of data masking script or via an update/insert trigger) you… Read More »
I’m in the process of recovering content. I was hit as a part of BitVPS’s falling apart. I’ve recoverd my backups but unfortunately my backups are a little old. –mwguy
Hey guys I was doing some of my spreadsheet fu on Google Sheets and I came across a problem. I needed a way to bring API data into my spreadsheet for a Bitcoin address I was trying to track. In the process I came up with a Google script way to pull a basic list… Read More »