Security
"A Unix socket and a FIFO both transfer bytes from one end to another, but that’s pretty much all they have in common."
"Shopify's build system automatically installed a Ruby gem only a few hours after I had uploaded it, and then tried to run the code inside it."
FBI investigating after thwarted breach.
Cisco product security continues to demand regular urgent patching from users: the company last week pushing out an advisory after multiple critical (CVSS 9.8) vulnerabilities were found in a family of VPN routers. The bugs grant any unauthenticated, remote attacker the ability to execute code as all-powerful root user.
An NDA among the documents leaked.
Full root privileges on Ubuntu 20.04, Debian 10, and Fedora 33 demonstrated.
