Wednesday, 28 June 2017

Arrests in UK over Microsoft scam calls

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At least one person I know will be happy to read about this. I had to wipe their PCs drive due to infection which resulted in this attempted...

How to see Debian/Ubuntu Security advisories and receive email alerts

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Security advisories are published by leading Linux O.S. distributors, announcing important security patches that should be applied as a matt...
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'Vaccine' created for yesterdays Petya (NotPetya) Ransomware attack

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This latest ransomware attack will encrypt your Windows files and demand a ransom to have your files restored. Researchers have found a way...
Monday, 29 May 2017

Trying to mount a Windows NTFS HDD on linux errors, "The disk contains an unclean file system"

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I had a friend ask me to copy files from her old dying laptop of a spec that was only suitable for Windows XP. She had upgraded it to Windo...

How to protect your Samba from the latest ransomware SambaCry Vulnerability (CVE-2017-7494)

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In May 2017 systems worldwide were hit by the WannaCry ransomware. If you get infected then, then your personal files will be encrypted and...
Saturday, 22 October 2016

Dirty COW exploit and Automatic Security Updates

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The announcement this week of the Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195), a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel reminded me to check m...
Saturday, 25 June 2016

Using sed to search and replace text in files within a directory

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I needed to edit all files within a directory, replacing an ip address '10.0.7.52' with 'localhost'. sed is a very powerful...