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The maintainers of the FreeBSD operating system have released updates to remediate a security vulnerability impacting the ping module that could be potentially exploited to crash the program or trigger remote code execution. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2022-23093, impacts all supported versions of FreeBSD and concerns a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the ping […]
Researchers have found a vulnerability on most Linux distros and *NIX devices which allow hackers to hijack the VPN connections and inject malicious data into the TCP stream. The security researchers found the vulnerability in most Linux distributions and operating systems such as Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, macOS, iOS, and Android. How does it work? According […]
OpenBSD, an open-source operating system built with security in mind, has been found vulnerable to four new high-severity security vulnerabilities, one of which is an old-school type authentication bypass vulnerability in BSD Auth framework. The other three vulnerabilities are privilege escalation issues that could allow local users or malicious software to gain privileges of an […]
We are excited to announce this major release of auditing tool Lynis. Several big changes have been made to core functions of Lynis. These changes are the next of simplification improvements we made. There is a risk of breaking your existing configuration. Lynis is an open source security auditing tool. Used by system administrators, security […]
Auto Root Exploit Tool Author : Nilotpal Biswas Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/nilotpal.biswas.73 Twitter : https://twitter.com/nilotpalhacker USAGE : for kernel version 2.6 all bash autoroot.sh 2 for kernel version 3 all bash autoroot.sh 3 for kernel version 4 all bash autoroot.sh 4 for freebsd & openbsd all bash autoroot.sh bsd for apple macos all bash autoroot.sh app […]
The corporation says that version 390 of its GPU video driver will be the last to carry 32-bit platforms. “Later driver release reports will not operate, nor install, on 32-bit operating systems,” an organization spokesperson said. “Driver enhancements, driver optimizations, and operating system feature in driver iterations after Release 390 will not be included back […]
Fedora 27 Beta After a few hiccups and delays, the Fedora Project has finally shipped the beta release for Fedora 27 Linux distro. This is a major milestone before the final version ships later this year in November. A major change that comes with Fedora 27 Beta Workstation is a shift to the latest GNOME 3.26 […]
Short Bytes: Linux and BSD are two open source operating system families inspired by the 20th-century operating system Unix. Several things set the two apart like hardware support, development philosophy, etc. Also, Linux is more popular than BSD. When you start to get out of the Windows ecosystem, the very first thing you see is […]
Short Bytes: FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has announced the general availability of FreeBSD 11 open source operating system. This is the first release of the stable/11 branch and it comes with many security improvements and better hardware support. Towards the end of the last month, we reported that the final images of FreeBSD 11 have […]
Short Bytes: The Final Release of FreeBSD 11.0 is scheduled for Wednesday, September 28, 2016. However, the release builds have started to appear on FreeBSD’s FTP mirrors and you can download the final ISO right now. The BSD fans were disappointed when the FreeBSD 11.0 final release didn’t arrive on September 12, 2016, probably due […]
Short Bytes: FreeBSD foundation has announced the code freeze for the FreeBSD 11 release, marking the start of the Alpha 1 release. This release brings many features, especially for the system administrators and super users. For those unfamiliar with FreeBSD, it is considered one of the few operating systems left to be true UNIX. It […]
Short Bytes: Microsoft has released its own FreeBSD distribution and offered official support to Azure users. The kernel level changes/investments made by Redmond will be up-streamed into the official FreeBSD 10.3 release. Justin T. Gibbs, the FreeBSD Foundation’s President, called its an important milestone for the community. Wwriting the latest chapter of its love affair with open […]