@itsfoss LTS releases are only every 2 years. Even numbers 22.04, 20.04 etc. If I used Ubuntu, I would only use the LTS releases. I would be ready to nuke it and start fresh every couple of years. Not out of necessity but just because that's how my mind works.
Block Lemmy instances because a couple of them got hacked? Please don't break federation unnecessarily.
#Lemmy has been around for about 4 years but obviously just started getting some real attention so there will be more vulnerabilities found and exploited.
My point was that all of these applications are not well audited and almost certainly contain vulnerabilities. Lemmy isn't more of a security risk than any other application so I wouldn't advocate for defederating Lemmy instances.
The #lemmy issue is patched in 0.18.2-rc.1. Not sure why that's a rc but ok. 🤔
I've been toying with setting up Lemmy and Mastodon instances just for my own use and I think I've decided against it. I deal with this bs all day for a living. I don't think I want to mess with it more when I get off work.
Maybe I'm paranoid but I don't think I'd even try without a properly hardened server, heavily firewalled and running behind a WAF/CDN. Once you do all of that you've pretty much taken all of the fun out of running an instance IMO.
Mad respect for anyone who does run their own #lemmy, #mastodon, #kbin instances though. Seriously. That's a lot of work to do it properly. I'm not going to do it myself so thanks to you guys for opening your instances to all of the insanity that comes with running a publicly accessible service.
What are your thoughts on the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)? If you were offered a scholarship to take the cert for $200 instead of the standard $1k would you take it? Would you say it would benefit someone’s efforts towards getting interviews for a role in vulnerability analysis/pentesting? Asking for a friend, I’m trying to help her rn 🥴 #infosec#cybersecurity
@taeluralexis It's not very well-respected anymore but for $200? I'd probably do it for $200 just so I can say I did. I don't think having a CEH will help get a foot in the door many places anymore.
@taeluralexis@giffengrabber That's elitist gatekeeping nonsense. The CISSP is a test that focuses on your ability to retain information and "think like a manger". I would avoid working with anyone with that attitude. I have nothing but respect for the certification but it's not for everyone, especially someone looking for an entry-level security engineer type role.
@CenturyAvocado Look into catfish if you'd like a GUI. Catfish can serve as a frontend for the find and locate commands. Locate will index files daily and maintain a DB that can be used to search more quickly than your standard find command.
Poll: Have you ever run the command "rm -rf /" as a root user on your #Linux, #FreeBSD (or *BSD), #macOS, or #Unix system? Please share if you have and how it happened. Let's be honest. Please boost for reach. TIA.
@boilingsteam If you're fortunate enough to live close to a Microcenter, they sell refurbished Thinkpads on occasion. Right now they have a T480 for $350 and a T460 for $330. 16G of RAM.
That will end your current shell before it has a chance to save history. I would prefer that to deleting history.
I worked for a company that leased self-managed servers. Clients would email our CEO & tell him we wouldn't perform management tasks on their unmanaged servers for free. E.g. set up a LAMP server, full email stack. CEO would call us and tell us to do it for them at no charge. We used this trick to prevent giving the customers free training.