Tag archives for security
Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021: Would you have expected me to write about it?
Strange things are happening: I wanted to try Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC (which is still horrendous, because it's Win11), and I learned about Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021. As…
The CPU Apocalypse: Yet Another Effect of Greed
I am sick of the endless string of vulnerabilities because of CPU design flaws. A recent sampler: Meltdown (2018), Spectre (v1, v2, v3, v4, v5, and SpectreRSB in 2018, SWAPGS…
One more reason to use Ubuntu LTS (regardless of flavor)
Just as it was with the CUPS hysteria, a set of rsync vulnerabilities have been promptly patched for all supported LTS versions of Ubuntu, even LTS and LTS for the…
DistroWatch Weekly as a shithole (plus two tips)
I am banned from commenting on DWW for years, and I don't remember exactly why. I don't remember to have had any interaction with Jesse Smith, but Ladislav Bodnar didn't…
Luddism #1: From passwords to passkeys
In the context of the passwordless desideratum that might be achieved by the generalization of solutions based on standards aimed at improving authentication security by moving away from passwords and…
Is this the CUPS hell? Maybe not for everyone, methinks
I don't address security issues. I don't fix vulnerabilities. But I am so tired of reading about such things! And believe me, I read about them a lot. For decades…
Pavel Durov: criminal, martyr, or double agent?
The current affair of Telegram’s founder and CEO, Pavel Durov, is stinking big time. This case is absolutely baffling, and I don't trust in the least what the French authorities…
UEFI was already broken, but Microsoft perfected the breakage
I'm fundamentally against UEFI, against Secure Boot, against encrypted partitions and against a number of other modern obsessions. But let's talk a bit about the way Microsoft recently broke GRUB.…
Security is a joke. Networking is a joke. Experts are a joke.
I'm so tired of reading all the time about IT security issues. The tissue of our society, which is networked computing, is a Gruyère cheese; it's Achilles' heel. When it…
Microsoft + CloudStrike = Death
The culprit for the current global Windows outage that affected banks, airlines, hospitals, and many other services and industries since the early morning of Friday, July 19, CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor,…
Open-source software: the road to hell?
I'm hyperbolizing, but still. Open source was supposed to be the best possible software development model. Even those not into the GPL vs BSD war, or more generally, the copyleft…
Et tu, KDE? Vulnerable by design?
I never thought I'd discover such a stupid design decision in KDE. I didn't even learn about it on Planet KDE, but on KDE's Facebook public group, which I joined…
Cybersecurity, VPN myths, and the GDPR idiocy
These are three distinct topics, but in my opinion they all deserve attention, and once you consider all the facts, you might conclude that so many people are barking at…
Windscribe VPN: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
When I wrote The VPN Myth half a year ago, I expressed my preference for Windscribe VPN, which includes features such as , a customizable advanced DNS and IP level…
The Ongoing Cyberwar Nobody Talks About
No, this is not about the overall increase in malware and ransomware attacks we're witnessing on in recent years. It's about something that I believe has happened in the last…
Bitcoin’s evilness is more than Ransomware
I wanted to avoid writing about Bitcoin, for it's too ample a subject, and even a book wouldn't persuade some people on how many level Bitcoin is morally wrong and…
I had forgotten why I shouldn’t trust Ubuntu… but neither many other distros!
Security, security, security! Patches, patches, patches! This happened to me before, but poor me, I forgot about it, for it's been years since I wasn't into Ubuntu anymore. Updated with…
The VPN Myth
I'm sick of how many people are still believing that, if they use an open public network without a VPN, their credentials might be stolen. Smart, educated people believe this…
Back to China
Qihoo 360, which now offers even a vacuum cleaner, and an expensive one at that; and whose antivirus is hated or at least not trusted by many. And yet, I've…
24 h with Huorong, a week with Comodo 12, a year with Bitdefender 2019 (or not)
While not being that much in the mood for writing, I had to clarify that I put a halt on my CCAV journey. It worked well, but I wanted to…