Yes! As the other poster said, account database dumps are commonly broken through brute force attempts. The tools to reverse hashes are not some "super secret cracker-only-thing either, hashcat is the best password-hash reversing brute force tool. It's free and open source and on the right hardware can have amazingly, absurdly, performant performance.
I'm a Linux Consultant/Instructor and often have a need for running many (many) virtual machines simultaneously as I simulate a clients setup and possible setups. Sometimes for larger projects I'll run VMs from a datacenter but often it's much faster and more convenient to have everything local.
I'm running a Lenovo P51 with a Xeon, 64 GB ECC, and two 1TB NVMe drives in a zfs-raid (Hello 4GB/s disk read speeds on a laptop).
I'm totally only replying to this because I wanted to brag about my laptop...
I love the amount of effort some people put into returning defective items. Anytime I purchase something that breaks within it's warranty or return period, I'll make a half-hearted attempt to get it fixed through "proper channels". I'll take it back to the store, I'll contact customer service.
But as soon they tell me, "You have to pay shipping and send it back to us, and if we can confirm it's defective we'll issue a refund.... yada yada yada". Then, then answer is "Nope." And I login into American Express's website, click dispute charge. Done problem solved.
As a company, you have two options: 1) Replace the defective item, and get the dead one back to deal with the manufacturer. 2) Bullshit me, and then you can eat the cost of the dead item and not get it back.
I've said before in previous posts that I personally use Fedora, since my day job revolves around Red Hat based systems. But I LOVE Ubuntu. When I starting using Linux back in 1997 (I was late to the game), the community was toxic.
The choices were basically Slackware, which, while a good distro the SW community really expected you to be a Unix god and was unwilling to provides helpful answers other than "gtfo n00b" and "go use windows".
The other choice was Mandriva which had a better community but just the worst documentation. Which meant, you'd go to the community to ask for help, you'd get a response of "RTFM", which would have been fine, had there been a manual and/or if it had had correct information in it. (Yes, I know there were other distros at the time but those were the two big communities)
So a lot of my time was spent reading/editing source code to learn how to use application which should have "just worked" in the first damn place. Now to be fair, I learned a ton because of that.
Then came Ubuntu, along with its rich sugar-daddy. In came professional tech-writers documenting the system, documenting the applications, writing correct and updated how-to guides. In came professional coders fixing long standing bugs. And I watched many other distros die as they bled users to Ubuntu. Even if you dislike some of the design decisions Ubuntu has made over the years, they greatly increased the quality of the entire Linux ecosystem.
The biggest improvement in the RPi I've been looking forward to is USB3/GBe. It's nice in the model 3 they added GBe, but it's pretty much pointless if you go and plug it into a USB2 port.
Real World Expected Speeds:
100mbps eth = ~8MB/s
1GBe = ~110MB/s
USB2 = ~14MB/s
USB3 = ~250MB/s
Thus, on the RPi3, GBe @ USB2 speeds means, MAYBE 14MB/s, BUT as others have noted, other IO devices on the RPIs share the same bus, so real-world speeds will be less. UGH.
Don't be ridiculous. How are the supposed to datamine every move we make in game and force unwanted patches on us if we're allowed to run our own servers?
I myself switched over to Pale Moon once Firefox started killing off features and pretending to be Chrome.
I would recommend you ditch NoScript and check out uMatrix. It is a full, and better (and without the whole AdBlock controversy) replacement to NoScript. As well as CookieMonster, and other resource blockers, allowing control over loading of not just JS/Cookies but also CSS, images, media, and more.
I thinking I'm missing the point of these.
More expensive than a Samsung EVO 960.
Smaller than a 960.
Half the read performance of a 960.
Half the write performance of a 960.
I was excited when I first read the headline, I thought, FINALLY samsung will have some competition again and prices will come down. So much for that dream
Well, that seems pointless to me. For most of the tools in Kali you need to power of the Linux Kernel to directly control hardware like the wifi card. e.g. Kali/aireplay isn't very useful if you can put the interface into promiscuous mode.
I'm in nearly the same boat as you. I worked from home 90% of the year and travel out of state to random client sites the rest of the time.
I've had job offers from companies, usually for more pay, but none of them let me work from home. So I end up turning them down. It's really hard to beat a 30 second commute from bed to office. Fresh, well made coffee, and a comfortably setup office to my tastes. Best of all is, when I'm done for the day, I have a 30 second commute to home.
In high school (2003), I took a Novell Netware course and at the end of it became a "Certified Novell NetWare Administrator" And, am I ever so glad I got that. Being able to manage a NetWare environment has been a huge boon to my career.
Seriously though, exposure to things is never bad. But, when I think of "computer science", I think of students learning algorithms like when to use a bubble sort vs a quick sort, that's things that at that level most could not care less about. But general computer crap like, wtf is efi, boot process, and basics of wtf an operating system is I think could go a long way. I think teaching students also core concepts like "a file is just data and data is changable" would be very beneficial. Too many people think pdfs are not editable, that video is unfakable, that a picture is absolute evidence of something.
I've been using Fedora exclusively since 2009, my current install (which is cloned across multiple machines) was installed as Fedora 21, and updated through all the releases up to the current 27.
I like Fedora, but it does break random shit on updates, and usually not due to rpm conflicts, though those are easy to fix.
Going from 25 to 26, audio just stopped, and hours were spent learning way more about pulse audio than I ever cared to know.
Going from 26 to 27 the DisplayPort output decided it no longer wanted to work on an AMD video card. Spent awhile researching that and eventually rolling a custom kernel until the fix made it to the official fedora kernel.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes! As the other poster said, account database dumps are commonly broken through brute force attempts. The tools to reverse hashes are not some "super secret cracker-only-thing either, hashcat is the best password-hash reversing brute force tool. It's free and open source and on the right hardware can have amazingly, absurdly, performant performance.
You gotta run the correct command:
uname is the "kernel name" where "Linux" is correct.
uname -o is Operating System, where GNU/Kernel is correct for most Linii.
GNU/Linux
I'm a Linux Consultant/Instructor and often have a need for running many (many) virtual machines simultaneously as I simulate a clients setup and possible setups. Sometimes for larger projects I'll run VMs from a datacenter but often it's much faster and more convenient to have everything local.
I'm running a Lenovo P51 with a Xeon, 64 GB ECC, and two 1TB NVMe drives in a zfs-raid (Hello 4GB/s disk read speeds on a laptop).
I'm totally only replying to this because I wanted to brag about my laptop...
MACOs are a specially trained combat wing of the Earth military.
Since the article is light on actual details of how to find vulnerable machines.
Go to shodan.io and search for '<A HREF="/login.rsp">'
Replace the IP 14.63.122.219:9000 in the example with one from Shodan's results.
It's like when you get hit with a blue shell in Mario Kart. Except now, the kart flips. And I guess you can now buy Mario Kart at Walmart?
I love the amount of effort some people put into returning defective items. Anytime I purchase something that breaks within it's warranty or return period, I'll make a half-hearted attempt to get it fixed through "proper channels". I'll take it back to the store, I'll contact customer service.
But as soon they tell me, "You have to pay shipping and send it back to us, and if we can confirm it's defective we'll issue a refund.... yada yada yada". Then, then answer is "Nope." And I login into American Express's website, click dispute charge. Done problem solved.
As a company, you have two options:
1) Replace the defective item, and get the dead one back to deal with the manufacturer.
2) Bullshit me, and then you can eat the cost of the dead item and not get it back.
I've heard this lie before!
On Slashdot, back in 2014. I'm beginning to suspect there will never be a Foundation movie/series.
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/14/11/11/1811227/hbo-developing-asimovs-foundation-series-as-tv-show
I've said before in previous posts that I personally use Fedora, since my day job revolves around Red Hat based systems. But I LOVE Ubuntu. When I starting using Linux back in 1997 (I was late to the game), the community was toxic.
The choices were basically Slackware, which, while a good distro the SW community really expected you to be a Unix god and was unwilling to provides helpful answers other than "gtfo n00b" and "go use windows".
The other choice was Mandriva which had a better community but just the worst documentation. Which meant, you'd go to the community to ask for help, you'd get a response of "RTFM", which would have been fine, had there been a manual and/or if it had had correct information in it. (Yes, I know there were other distros at the time but those were the two big communities)
So a lot of my time was spent reading/editing source code to learn how to use application which should have "just worked" in the first damn place. Now to be fair, I learned a ton because of that.
Then came Ubuntu, along with its rich sugar-daddy. In came professional tech-writers documenting the system, documenting the applications, writing correct and updated how-to guides. In came professional coders fixing long standing bugs. And I watched many other distros die as they bled users to Ubuntu. Even if you dislike some of the design decisions Ubuntu has made over the years, they greatly increased the quality of the entire Linux ecosystem.
Thank you Ubuntu devs for raising the bar!
Wikipedia has a nice table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_CPU_microarchitectures#Pentium_4_/_Core_Lines
Other easy to remember public DNS Servers
The biggest improvement in the RPi I've been looking forward to is USB3/GBe. It's nice in the model 3 they added GBe, but it's pretty much pointless if you go and plug it into a USB2 port.
Real World Expected Speeds:
Thus, on the RPi3, GBe @ USB2 speeds means, MAYBE 14MB/s, BUT as others have noted, other IO devices on the RPIs share the same bus, so real-world speeds will be less. UGH.
Don't be ridiculous. How are the supposed to datamine every move we make in game and force unwanted patches on us if we're allowed to run our own servers?
I myself switched over to Pale Moon once Firefox started killing off features and pretending to be Chrome.
I would recommend you ditch NoScript and check out uMatrix. It is a full, and better (and without the whole AdBlock controversy) replacement to NoScript. As well as CookieMonster, and other resource blockers, allowing control over loading of not just JS/Cookies but also CSS, images, media, and more.
Why, The Pirates Bay's Top 100 Videos of course. https://thepiratebay.org/top/200/
I thinking I'm missing the point of these.
More expensive than a Samsung EVO 960.
Smaller than a 960.
Half the read performance of a 960.
Half the write performance of a 960.
I was excited when I first read the headline, I thought, FINALLY samsung will have some competition again and prices will come down. So much for that dream
No one has ever thought to take a picture of the area behind a monitor and set it as the wallpaper before.... https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/creative-transparent-screen-trick-photos/
I've been doing this for years in Linux, I even have a shell script for it:
$ cat disable-laptop-keyboardmouse.sh
#!/bin/sh
xinput --disable 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard'
xinput --disable 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'
$ cat enable-laptop-keyboardmouse.sh
#!/bin/sh
xinput --enable 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard'
xinput --enable 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'
At cleaning time:
$ disable-laptop-keyboardmouse.sh; sleep 2m; enable-laptop-keyboardmouse.sh
Well, that seems pointless to me. For most of the tools in Kali you need to power of the Linux Kernel to directly control hardware like the wifi card. e.g. Kali/aireplay isn't very useful if you can put the interface into promiscuous mode.
I'm in nearly the same boat as you. I worked from home 90% of the year and travel out of state to random client sites the rest of the time.
I've had job offers from companies, usually for more pay, but none of them let me work from home. So I end up turning them down. It's really hard to beat a 30 second commute from bed to office. Fresh, well made coffee, and a comfortably setup office to my tastes. Best of all is, when I'm done for the day, I have a 30 second commute to home.
I'm so glad dropbox deletes old files, that way when I go and click on a link from a forum post from 2014 it no longer works. Thanks dropbox!
In high school (2003), I took a Novell Netware course and at the end of it became a "Certified Novell NetWare Administrator" And, am I ever so glad I got that. Being able to manage a NetWare environment has been a huge boon to my career.
Seriously though, exposure to things is never bad. But, when I think of "computer science", I think of students learning algorithms like when to use a bubble sort vs a quick sort, that's things that at that level most could not care less about.
But general computer crap like, wtf is efi, boot process, and basics of wtf an operating system is I think could go a long way. I think teaching students also core concepts like "a file is just data and data is changable" would be very beneficial. Too many people think pdfs are not editable, that video is unfakable, that a picture is absolute evidence of something.
I've been using Fedora exclusively since 2009, my current install (which is cloned across multiple machines) was installed as Fedora 21, and updated through all the releases up to the current 27.
I like Fedora, but it does break random shit on updates, and usually not due to rpm conflicts, though those are easy to fix.
Going from 25 to 26, audio just stopped, and hours were spent learning way more about pulse audio than I ever cared to know.
Going from 26 to 27 the DisplayPort output decided it no longer wanted to work on an AMD video card. Spent awhile researching that and eventually rolling a custom kernel until the fix made it to the official fedora kernel.
I use Fedora, because I like to spend hours fixing things every time I attempt a software upgrade.
I know who didn't read the summary.