I recently came across an issue where an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server wasn't syncing the time so the jitter and drifting of the time wasn't correcting itself. This caused issues with some of the applications running on the server because the time would be off as much as 45 minutes after a week or two [...]
If you're a Linux Systems Administrator or run an Ubuntu Linux Server for a small website somewhere, now would be a good time to plan an upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus if you're currently running Ubuntu 14.04. You can read the Ubuntu Release Notes to see some of the new features available. Ubuntu has [...]
YAWAST is an application meant to simplify initial analysis and information gathering for penetration testers and security auditors. It performs basic checks in these categories: TLS/SSL - Versions and cipher suites supported; common issues. Information Disclosure - Checks for common information leaks. Presence of Files or Directories - Checks for files or directories that could [...]
A zero-day local privilege escalation vulnerability has been found in the Linux kernel that has existed since 2005, being called DirtyCow. This bug affects a large number of popular Linux distros as well as Android devices. By exploiting the DirtyCow vulnerability, any user can become root (admin) in less than 5 seconds. The vulnerability has [...]
System Administrator Andrew Ayer has discovered a system crippling bug in systemd that affects multiple Linux distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu, and CentOS. The bug has existed for more than two years and does not require root access to exploit. According to the article: After running this command, PID 1 is hung in the pause [...]
If you're a blogger or a web developer, there will hopefully come a time when you out-grow a shared host and need either a VPS or a dedicated server to run your website. In this article, I'll walk you through the steps to do a LEMP install on Ubuntu 16.04 Server. A LEMP install will [...]
If you're using a version of Debian Linux like Ubuntu, Kali, Mint, etc, then this tutorial will help you in getting Google Chrome running on your system. The commands will work regardless of if you're using 32-bit or 64-bit, only the .deb package you download will have either i386 (32-bit) or amd64 (64-bit) in the [...]
One of the easiest ways to get started with Linux besides using a LiveCD is to install it as a virtual machine if you have supported hardware. You can use the free Oracle VirtualBox to run multiple operating systems on your host machine. My configuration is a Windows 10 laptop with 8GB of RAM, an [...]
Last month, Ubuntu announced their smartphone OS, which would be released later this year. Today they're announcing their tablet OS, which will be available to developers this Thursday for the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets (the same day Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 developers can get the smartphone version). Just like the smartphone version, [...]
Today, Ubuntu (a major distro for Linux), has announced its upcoming operating systems for smartphones. It is based off of the Android kernel and drivers, but will not run on Java Virtual Machine (JVM), which means it should offer a smoother experience on lower end hardware. It will also support both ARM and full x86 [...]
