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  1. FBnil

    Hardening the Pyra (by hardening systemd services). Intended audience: Linux intermediate

    The Pyra, which has a modified build based on Debian, has systemd. The Linux Journal, now resurrected, has a nice article about hardening your Linux Installation. https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/systemd-service-strengthening Basically you can run the following command to check what the...
  2. K

    HP laptops coming with keylogger

    http://redirect.viglink.com/?key=bbb516d91daee20498798694a42dd559&u=https%3A//arstechnica.com/security/2017/05/hp-laptops-covert-log-every-keystroke-researchers-warn/
  3. klapse

    Computer Security and OS Design Videos by Joanna

    youtube search Joanna Rutkowska http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Joanna-Rutkowska.jpg great lectures and cool young lady.
  4. ible

    Talos - IBM power8 based cpu, less blobs?

    https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/talos-secure-workstation $4100 just for a motherboard, or $7500 for a beefy desktop (motherboard, 128GB ram, some HDD, a chassis, a $250 AMD GPU, etc.) but besides the above investment, you need to buy a CPU...
  5. levi

    ASN1C preprocessor bug - does this affect the GSM Pyra?

    See https://github.com/programa-stic/security-advisories/tree/master/ObjSys/CVE-2016-5080 The Pyra's GSM chip presumably runs some sort of OS to parse AT commands and deal with real-time parts of phone connectivity. If the source for that OS was built using a preprocessor named ASN1C to...
  6. K

    Linux Mint site and forum hacked, contaminated ISOs and stolen passwords

    I've just gotten an eMail from the boards to change my password anywhere in the net where I might have used the same one as on the Mint boards and wonder why it came so late: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=143&t=217298
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