Entries by hansb

MyFitnessPal Data Breach

n February 2018, the diet and exercise service MyFitnessPal suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 144 million unique email addresses alongside usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored as SHA-1 and bcrypt hashes (the former for earlier accounts, the latter for newer accounts).

Ubuntu Firewall: Basic Introduction

This is a basic introduction to Ubuntu firewall using the terminal commands. This tutorial requires you have administrative access to your Ubuntu system. If you installed Ubuntu the first account created by default has administrative access via sudo. You will need to type sudo for each command illustrated below.