Messages like the ones in the article list, originated from a cron job, could be generated on debian systems:
/etc/cron.daily/amavisd-new: Please run this cronjob as user amavis run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/amavisd-new exited with return code 1 |
Imagine to have a full MySQL DB Dump (containing a lot of Single Database Dumps) and imagine also to need the extraction or restoration of a single one. This is a quite common task that can be accomplished using some shell commands.
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On September 24, 2014, a GNU Bash vulnerability (Shellshock or “Bash Bug”), was discovered and published.
The vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code given specific conditions, by injecting strings of code following environment variable assignments.
Because of Bash’s large utilization (Ex: Linux, BSD, OsX), many computers are vulnerable to Shellshock Bash Bug.
All unpatched Bash versions between 1.14 through 4.3 seems to be compromised.
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Upgrading from Apache 2.2 to 2.4 is simply but some configuration updates are necessary, because a working Apache 2.2 VirtualHost setup will break silently when you upgrade to Apache 2.4.
A full and comprehensive guide to updating from Apache 2.2 to 2.4 is available in the apache.org website.
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PGP keys and SSH keys can share the same RSA algorithm and for this reason, with some little tuning it is possible to use a PGP SubKey to authenticate users into SSH Servers.
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