Friday, December 31, 2021

libera.chat: new irc environment for opensource communities

In the past I was using Freenode IRC server for getting support from open-source communities. After freenode I saw that some important communities moved this environment. I want to share details with you.

Server address:
/server irc.libera.chat 6667


You can connect with an irc client. IRC client suggestion: hexchat

Stats:

Saturday, December 11, 2021

CVE-2021-44228: Proof-of-Concept for Critical Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Available (Log4Shell)

 Plugin:

https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/155999

 POC - Blog post:

https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2021-44228-proof-of-concept-for-critical-apache-log4j-remote-code-execution-vulnerability

Log4Shell: RCE 0-day exploit found in log4j2, a popular Java logging package

Who is impacted?​

Many, many services are vulnerable to this exploit. Cloud services like Steam, Apple iCloud, and apps like Minecraft have already been found to be vulnerable.

https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day/


X-Force Report URL:

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/collection/Log4Shell-Zero-Day-Targeting-Java-Package-4daa3df4f73a51590efced7fb90bc949

netmiko: Multi-vendor network device library for python

 github.com/ktbyers/netmiko Multi-vendor library to simplify CLI connections to network devices; can be helpful espacially for SOAR projects

Create bootable Windows 11 iso on Ubuntu 20.04

 ❯ sudo dd bs=4M if=/mnt/hgfs/Ddd/Win11_English_x64v1.iso of=/dev/sdc conv=fdatasync  status=progress