Nerd Stuff. Please ignore.
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IT & Asking someone for help – up next on Booty Chopper!
Its all in the details. I can’t stress this enough. There is little to no point in saying to your geeky friend “My computer is fucked, can you fix it.” Aside from the unnecessary use of the word “fucked”, it leaves a great many things up to the Geek’s imagination and given that they spend 95%…
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ANOTHER Trojan?! on MAC?!
Another trojan for MAC has been seen in the wild. Like its sister “flashback” the SX/Sabpab-A / virus exploits vulnerabilities in Apple’s version of Java. Apple dev their own version of Java and, it would seem, are not as quick to patch the vulnerabilities. Kaspersky estimated that 670,000 Macs running OS X were infected with flashback…
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Apple Mac Virus – the Flashback Trojan and your face!
Ok kiddies, While I think you’re all tards for owning Apple products, I do care. So if you have a mac and you’re concerned about your apple mac having an STD, I’ve added a link below to NixCraft’s article on making sure your mac is as “secure” as you believe it to be. First you…
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Connect, SSH & TOR – another guide for the paranoid, and the tinfoil hats.
Uber paranoid? Want to completely hide your tracks when SSH’ing across the planet? You will Need: Connect SSH TOR The Spell: ssh -l username -2 xxx.xxx.x.x -o ProxyCommand=”/usr/local/bin/connect -4 -S localhost:9050 %h %p” The Guts – what’s doin what? -l says “use this username” -2 says use protocol 2 (dont use 1. Why? SSH1…
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Creating an Ubuntu Server with Webmin – Easy Peasy
Install Ubuntu Server: For detailed instructions on performing the base install, just head over to the ubuntu forums. They’re very informative, well presented, and easy to read. If you have any problems, comment below and I’ll see if I can be of any help. Once Ubuntu Server has been installed, login and do an apt-get…
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Deny Hosts – Installation and Overview (Paranoid Much? o.O)
Deny Hosts Overview In setting up an ubuntu server, one of the first packages I install is denyhosts. This daemon monitors access attempts to your server and blacklists ip’s whose access has been denied based on variables you determine in the config file. The config file allows you to, among other things, block based on…