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A vulnerability in GNOME Display Manager could allow a standard user to create accounts with increased privileges, giving a local attacker a path to run code with administrator permissions. The process involves running a few simple commands in the terminal and modifying general system settings that do not require increased rights.
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If you're looking for a platform to help with the collection and sharing of cybersecurity events, you need not look any further than MISP. Jack Wallen shows you how to install this tool.
Learn how to enable passwordless SSH authentication on both Linux and macOS. You probably secure shell into your Linux servers throughout the day. Hopefully, you've set those servers up such that you're using SSH Key Authentication.
If you're looking for a platform to help with the collection and sharing of cybersecurity events, you need not look any further than MISP. Jack Wallen shows you how to install this tool. Malware Information Sharing Platform is a tool for the collection, storing, distributing, and sharing of cybersecurity indicators and threats.
All Ubuntu appliances are "Free to download and install" but may include an up-sell to paid-for services. The idea of the Ubuntu Appliance Portfolio is to "Enable secure, self-healing, single-purpose devices," according to Canonical product manager Rhys Davies.
When that software requires SSL, you can enable a snake oil SSL key for testing purposes. I cannot tell you how many times I've installed a web-based application for testing purposes, only to find that application requires SSL to function.
Sometimes admins need to be able to test a web-based solution before deciding it's worth using. When that software requires SSL, you can enable a snake-oil SSL key for testing purposes.
On the first day of the Pwn2Own 2020 hacking competition, participants earned a total of $180,000 for demonstrating exploits targeting Windows 10, Ubuntu Desktop and macOS. Pwn2Own typically takes place at the CanSecWest cybersecurity conference in Vancouver, Canada, and participants have to attend in person. On the first day of Pwn2Own 2020, a team from the Georgia Tech Systems Software & Security Lab successfully executed code on macOS through Safari.
An unknown hacker yesterday successfully managed to hack into the official GitHub account of Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux project and created 11 new empty repositories. It...