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[reedphish]

Hackfest 2016 Sedna – walkthrough

Enjoying some days off from work. Here's a walkthrough for #Hackfest 2016 #Sedna!

At the moment I am enjoying some days off from work because of Easter holiday. To fill my time I decided to spend some time with the hackfest2016: Sedna game. The difficulty level on this one is rated medium, I expect it to be somewhat harder the hackfest2016: Quaoar game. Description From Vulnhub: There are multiple way to root this box, if it should work but doesn’t try to gather more info…

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[nexuve-blog]

Late night reading... CHIP (February 2017)...

[goandroidapps]

December Android Security Update Includes Dirty Cow Fix

December Android Security Update Includes Dirty Cow Fix

The December Android security update was just released, and one of the major things this update will fix is the Dirty Cow vulnerabilities. The Dirty Cow vulnerability could allow various malicious apps to take over your Android device. This security issue among others was a priority for the December Security Update from Android. December Android Security Update Fixes Dirty Cow Dirty Cow is among…

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[gazettereview]

Dirty COW – Security Risk or White Hat Delight? -Read more at http://gazettereview.com/2016/11/dirty-cow-security-risk-white-hat-delight/ - http://gazettereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/dirty-cow-linux-kernel-exploit-e1478184160338.png #DirtyCow, #Linux, #Security #Technology

Dirty COW – Security Risk or White Hat Delight?

Recently, a 9 year old bug has been discovered in the core of the Linux framework. Affecting every Linux PC and any device that runs off Linux based software (including Android phones), this root hole is about as wide spread as a Day Zero bug can be. But what is it and more importantly, what can...

http://gazettereview.com/2016/11/dirty-cow-security-risk-white-hat-delight/

[dogsbodytech]

Reboot of Purple Server

The Purple server will be rebooted tonight between 21:00 and 23:00 UTC on Wed 26th Oct 2016 to load new a new kernel.

This update fixes the the Dirty COW vulnerability.

The outage should only last around 5 minutes while the systems reboots.

[linux-ubuntu-it]

DirtyCOW: bug del kernel di 11 anni Il ciclo di sviluppo del kernel è continuo, e la maggior parte dello sforzo riguarda la correzione degli errori; sapendo questo, è strano scoprire che settimana scorsa è stato sistemato un bug presente da ben 11 anni. Cominciamo spiegando di cosa si ... [Visita il sito per leggere tutto l'articolo]

[nixcraft]

How To Patch and Protect Linux Kernel Zero Day Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability CVE-2016-5195 [ 21/Oct/2016 ]

The Linux kernel Local privilege escalation zero-day (CVE-2016-5195) is a serious bug and need to be fixed ASAP.

CVE-2016-5195: A serious Linux privilege-escalation zero day bug exists since last 9 years. Any user can become root in less than 5 seconds. Fix it ASAP. #