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NTP DDoS STILL Ongoing A few years later and there is still an old time DDoS lingering on abusing part of the NTP protocol: This DDoS abuses the “ntpdc monlist” command to generate a DDoS “Amplification Attack” All this has been long ago known and long ago fixed 2010/04/24: ntp.org – Amplification Attack using ntpdc . . . → Read More: An old time NTP DDoS lingering on CardDAV. Heard of it? It’s a standard way to transmit information about a contact back and forth. Name, Title, D.o.B etc. There no fixed list of attributes, so things are a bit more complex than they might first appear, but on the whole it works. It’s also a standard. An open standard. Anything that chooses . . . → Read More: Android, HTC and CardDav contacts So, you find in your kernel logs or elsewhere some error message something like: bnx2: Can’t load firmware file “bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw” That indicates there is a binary blob (or whatever firmware) missing that is needed for that device. The fix is to load up the Gentoo packaged firmware files. Most are in (surprise, surprise 😉 ) . . . → Read More: Gentoo-isms #2 – Can’t load firmware file Many laptops these days come without LEDs to indicate if “Caps Lock” or other lock keys are on. This saves the manufacturer about 0.001p per keyboard and allows them to wax lyrical about their new clean design and how the elegance of the implementation delivers the message of their core company culture (i.e. copy everything . . . → Read More: Recreating missing keyboard inidcator lights There are a multitude of clients to poll/read/display RSS feeds to keep you up-to-the-minute for any and all updates and whatever might be new on your favorite websites and whatever other channels… So why rss2email? If you already abuse your email system to receive maillists, then you can use rss2email to keep all your . . . → Read More: rss2email for getting news from RSS feeds |
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