Tag: security
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Win 10 Only Has A Year of Support Left
Windows 10 only has a year of support: 12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux! Have you been putting off upgrading to Windows 11 ever since it launched? If you want your rig to be as secure as possible, you don’t have long left until you pretty much have to.…
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Switching Linux to BSD because boring is Good
One of Stefano Marinelli’s NetBSD boxes sat quietly serving for a decade, because everyone forgot about it. This is how Unix is meant to be. After this year’s Open Source Summit in Vienna, the Reg FOSS desk travelled to Dublin for the 2024 EuroBSDCon. One of the talks at the event was from the man who built that…
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API Gateway Checklist
Your API gateway orchestrates traffic, enforces security, optimizes performance and welcomes users. Use this checklist to assess how well it’s doing. Every API needs a front door. A welcoming threshold for the handshakes of requests and responses. A solid construction that won’t fall apart with all the traffic. And wouldn’t a screen door be nice…
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Malware on Millions of Nix Servers
Armed with a staggering arsenal of at least 20,000 different exploits for various Linux server misconfigurations, the malware known as “perfctl” is everywhere, annoying, and tough to get rid of. Talk about ‘persistent’… A multipurpose and mysterious malware dropper has been terrorizing Linux servers worldwide for years, infecting untold thousands of victims with cryptomining and…
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Checking NVMe SSD Temps
This simple tutorial shows how you can check the temperature of your NVMe SSD on Linux using both terminal and GUI methods. Recently, NVMe, short for Non-Volatile Memory Express drives, has become the go-to storage option for modern desktops. Unlike traditional hard drives, NVMe drives are significantly faster, allowing for quicker boot times, faster file…
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CUPS Linux Printer Exploit
Critical Linux CUPS Printing System Flaws Could Allow Remote Command Execution A new set of security vulnerabilities has been disclosed in the OpenPrinting Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) on Linux systems that could permit remote command execution under certain conditions. “A remote unauthenticated attacker can silently replace existing printers’ (or install new ones) IPP urls…
