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Let's act just for once as a Computer Security Incident Response Team member. What a great pleasure... An user called the helpdesk because the antivirus was yelling about a supposed malicious PDF file. The only problem was: this alert was happening while...
Lire la suiteNoticing the fact that APT upgrades were becoming slower for a while, I started to investigate further. After checking all the configuration files of APT and its logs, it became clear that the problem was not on the hosts that used the APT-proxy running...
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This started when I wanted to try to run a BSD system inside a MS Virtual machine (Virtual PC 2007). Just to know for example, if the same problems as for Ubuntu occur (special command line options for the kernel needed to start the VM). But... the only...
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Hey as people say: never say never, or never say "it'll never happen to them". Nonetheless, even an AV vendor may not apply the basics of web server security: non-disclosure of versions information. This URL comes from the virus sginatures added and listed...
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