Linux
Basic Linux Commands

List of Basic Linux Commands

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Vulnerability & Threat Report
CentOS Update for bpftool CESA-2018:3651 centos7

The remote host is missing an update for the 'bpftool' package(s) announced via the CESA-2018:3651 advisory.

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General Security
Mitigating Buffer Overflow Attacks in Linux/Unix

A buffer overflow is the most common and the most serious threat to Linux/Unix operating systems. Buffer overflows occur when code running in unprotected memory in a buffer overwrites memory in an adjacent location.

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How-to
Linux Commands - Run .bin file in Linux / UNIX

Run .bin file in Linux / UNIX Change the permission of the file you downloaded to be executable by typing the following command: $ chmod +x file.bin Start the installation process or run .bin file by typing the following command: $ sudo ./file.bin For example if .bin file name is program.bin. Then type the following […]

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Malware
JS.Alescurf Trojan

Systems Affected:

Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows XP, Solaris, Windows Me, Windows Vista, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Linux, Windows 2000

JS.Alescurf is a detection for malicious code that can be injected in to vulnerable Internet Web pages.

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Linux
Enabling DVD playback in Ubuntu 9.04

I have just finished installing Ubuntu 9.04 on a Gateway laptop, everything worked well from video to wireless until I popped in a DVD to watch. Did the updates and still nothing, until I ran across this command on the Internet, tried it and everything is golden now.

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General Security
Linux Security, Then and Now

Linux is inherently not a secure operating system. The reason it's not secure is because Linux was based on the architectural design of UNIX, and the creators of UNIX didn't care about security – it was 1969 after all.

"The first fact to face is that UNIX was not developed with security, in any realistic sense, in mind; this fact alone guarantees a vast number of holes," Dennis Ritchie wrote in his paper, "On the Security of UNIX" in 1979.

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