It’s important to understand that security is an emergent property of your overall product or system health — it’s not an isolated feature that gets shipped and is then relegated to minor upkeep. Rather, similar to your own personal health, security requires ongoing maintenance and consistently applied proactive care.
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If you have access to a cloud server or a hosted platform, or a thin client which you could only interact with via some web view, but desperately need the data off it, fret not. Even if the system has no way of communicating via the network in or out to you, other than displaying a desktop, you can still get what you want. All you need is a shell prompt access and a GUI to display images.
… [Read More]First check what your commands and environment limitations are with
sudo -l
Then check permissions on the files you are allowed to run and on the folders that contain them
If you can modify file you already know what to do. If the folder is wide open remove and create a link from the file you can run to your code.
If environment is inherited from the user, set PS4, LD_PRELOAD, PERL5OPT, PYTHONINSPECT etc.
The best proactive defense against potential credit abuse and identity theft as a result of this data breach is a credit freeze. It’s been proven time and again as the most effective way to stop anyone tampering with your hard earned credit score, opening credit cards or loans in your name and other credit related abuse. Credit freeze stops anyone from accessing credit information. The downside is that it costs around $10, needs to be done with each credit scoring agency individually, and
… [Read More]If you have overly friendly, or overly open or just plain stupid (looking at you Comcast xfinity) wifi hotspots near you and you want to stop your kids/family/employees from using them, so they always use the WIFI you control, I’ve got a solution for you.
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