The love for Linux continues under Nadella’s stewardship. Microsoft SQL Server now available on Linux. Who would have thought. In separate news, Microsoft joins Linux foundation.
Microsoft’s announcement that it was bringing its flagship SQL Server database software to Linux came as a major surprise when the company first announced..
Source: Microsoft announces the next version SQL Server for Windows and Linux
Survival skills in the modern digital world. Someone should turn this into a mandatory course in school.
Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications
Source: Surveillance Self-Defense
Modern computers and web browsers have gotten powerful enough to allow you to enjoy those old DOS games in your browser! No need to download anything.
Archon for DOS
Source: Play DOS games online
IoT is increasingly becoming a dirty word for botnet.
Researchers have found ways to hijack a specific type of IoT device – the popular Philips Hue lamp – via ZigBee to do what they want, and make the attack spread wirelessly.
The worm spreads by jumping directly from one lamp to its neighbors, using only their built-in ZigBee wireless connectivity and their physical proximity. The attack can start by plugging in a single infected bulb anywhere in the city, and then catastrophically spread everywhere within minutes, enabling the attacker to turn all the city lights on or off, permanently brick them, or exploit them in a massive DDOS attack.
LOL. Microsoft accidentally “DDoS” npmjs.org in the new VS Code release. This is due to a feature in VS Code 1.7 sending a lot of non-cacheable requests. Thankfully they responded quickly and reverted VS Code to the old version.
These typings files drive the IntelliSense (code completions) experience in VS Code. The feature was so great that we started to overload the npmjs.org service.
This is serious. Dubbed “Dirty Cow“, there are already exploit kits out there for Android and possibly others.
Lurking in the kernel for nine years, flaw gives untrusted users unfettered root access.
Source: “Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug ever is under active exploit (updated)
A massive DDoS attack on key DNS infrastructure happened last Friday. It appears that one of Singapore’s telco – Starhub – was also under attacked on Saturday and Monday. There was no further information whether it is from the same attackers or whether it was a copycat attack.
The company said it analysed network logs of the disruptions and found that it had experienced intentional and likely malicious distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on its domain name servers (DNS).
Source: UPDATE 1-Singapore telco StarHub says hit by cyber attacks | Reuters
Well, it didn’t take long to up the ante.
Major websites were down for a period of time due to DDoS attack. This time featuring tens of millions of IoT devices.
This is a fascinating expose of a card game cheating device straight out of a spy movie.
This post exposes how real-world highly advanced poker cheating devices work.
Source: Full(er) House: Exposing high-end poker cheating devices
A very clear explanation to the DDoS problem that has been plaguing the Internet and recent advances in DDoS techniques.
The internet was originally created as a collection of equal connected peers. Everyone connected had equal rights, could consume content, produce content.
It was normal to host DNS or HTTP services on your home land-line.
But this is not possible anymore. It’s just too easy to knock unprotected websites off line.