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How to Set Up Privileged Access Workstations on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Privileged Access Workstations on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Set Up Privileged Access Workstations on Windows Server 2012 R2 Privileged Access Workstations (PAWs) are dedicated, hardened workstations used exclusively for administrative tasks, isolating high-privilege credentials from the threats present on general-purpose workstations used for email, web browsing, and productivity applications. The PAW model is a critical defense against credential theft attacks, where […]

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Einrichtung von SSH-Schlüsseln unter Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Einrichtung von SSH-Schlüsseln unter Ubuntu 18.04

SSH oder Secure Shell ist ein verschlüsseltes Protokoll zur Verwaltung und Kommunikation mit Servern. Wenn Sie mit einem Ubuntu-Server arbeiten, verbringen Sie wahrscheinlich die meiste Zeit in einer Terminalsitzung, die über SSH mit Ihrem Server verbunden ist. In diesem…

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How to Perform a Security Audit on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Perform a Security Audit on FreeBSD 12

Introduction Deploying perform a security audit on freebsd 12 on a FreeBSD 12 machine differs from Linux in several important ways: packages come from the FreeBSD Ports Collection or the binary pkg repository, services are registered in /etc/rc.conf via sysrc(8), and firewall rules are written in pf.conf(5) syntax. This tutorial stays entirely within the standard […]

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FreeBSD 12 — py37-buildbot — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — py37-buildbot — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 17 September 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: buildbot — OAuth Authentication Vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2019-12300 CVE-2019-7313 Upstream summary: Buildbot accepted user-submitted authorization token from OAuth and used it to authenticate user. The vulnerability can lead to malicious […]

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FreeBSD 12 — ctorrent — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — ctorrent — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 17 September 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Enhanced cTorrent — stack-based overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2009-1759 Upstream summary: Securityfocus reports: cTorrent and dTorrent are prone to a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability because the software fails to properly bounds-check user-supplied […]

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FreeBSD 12 — mysql55-client — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — mysql55-client — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 17 September 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: mysql — denial of service vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2015-4792 CVE-2015-4802 CVE-2015-4807 CVE-2015-4815 CVE-2015-4826 CVE-2015-4830 CVE-2015-4836 CVE-2015-4858  +12 more Upstream summary: Openwall reports: C client library for MySQL (libmysqlclient.so) has use-after-free […]

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FreeBSD 12 — bogofilter-tdb — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — bogofilter-tdb — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 17 September 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: bogofilter — RFC 2047 decoder denial-of-service vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2004-1007 Upstream summary: The bogofilter team has been provided with a test case of a malformatted (non-conformant) RFC-2047 encoded word that […]

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Установка и использование TimescaleDB в Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Установка и использование TimescaleDB в Ubuntu 18.04

Автор выбрал Computer History Museum для получения пожертвования в рамках программы Write for DOnations. Многие приложения, в том числе системы мониторинга и сбора данных, собирают данные для дальнейшего анализа. В…

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