Everyone’s trying to do everything, which gives the big people a major advantage
China melted GitHub
MiTM’d Baidu traffic and modified its analytics JavaScript to make constant requests to GitHub
They did it because GitHub was hosting two mirror repos for content that is banned in China
Also highlights the need for encryption, so that the JS couldn’t have been injected
Obama just came out and said that if you attack us, we’ll sanction you
How does that work exactly, when China makes everything we use?
Then we just found out Russia hacked us through the State Department issue
A major vulnerability was revealed in Inngate routers used in the US and Europe.
It allows attackers to browse and write to the root file system of the devices, changing configuration, distributing malware, etc.
Mostly used in US and European hotels
Attackers are compromising IRS accounts in large numbers. Claim yours to avoid it happening to you
Featuring Brooks Garrett
He’s a friend and co-worker going back 8 years
He’s the smartest IT guy I’ve ever known: sick programmer, Linux ninja, database, networking, everything. Full stack, real deal.
He’s a volunteer firefighter
He blogs at http://brooksgarrett.com: latest posts are Remote Streaming with Pi and MPD, Nagios SMS alerts with Amazon SNS, Cleaning Passwords from Logs, Fixing OhMyZSH prompts in PuTTY
His Twitter is @brooksgarrett
If you’re not following his stuff, you should be
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Notes
Intro track is from one of my favorite EDM artists: Zomby. The song is ‘Orion’, and it’s from the ‘With Love’ album. Highly recommended if you like chill EDM.
