Caching best practices & max-age gotchas

Getting caching right yields huge performance benefits, saves bandwidth, and reduces server costs, but many sites half-arse their caching, creating race conditions resulting in interdependent resources getting out of sync. The vast majority of best-practice caching falls into one of two patterns:...

SUSE-SU-2016:0923-1 Security update for libvirt

This update to libvirt 1.2.18.2 fixes the following minor security issue: - CVE-2015-5313: Directory traversal allowed privilege escalation bsc953110 The following bugs were fixed: - bsc952849: Don't add apparmor deny rw rule for 9P readonly mounts. - bsc960305: libxl: support parsing and...

SUSE-SU-2016:0911-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Following feature was added to kernel-xen: - A improved XEN blkfront module was added, which allows more I/O bandwidth. FATE320200 It is called xen-blkfront in PV, and xen-vbd-upstream in HVM mode. The...

New Relic: Too many included lookups

Your SPF record required more than 10 DNS Lookups to be performed during the test. The number of "include" mechanisms and chained "redirect' modifiers should be kept to a minimum. According to RFC 4408, 'SPF implementations MUST limit the number of mechanisms and modifiers that do DNS Lookups to ...

Juniper Networks Junos OS EX4300 Series Network Topology DoS Vulnerability

Junos OS on EX4300 Series is prone to a Denial of Service vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

Design/Logic Flaw

Juniper Junos OS before 13.2X51-D36, 14.1X53 before 14.1X53-D25, and 15.2 before 15.2R1 on EX4300 series switches allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service network loop and bandwidth consumption via unspecified vectors related to Spanning Tree Protocol STP traffic...

CVE-2016-1260: Undefined Security Weakness

Juniper Junos OS before 13.2X51-D36, 14.1X53 before 14.1X53-D25, and 15.2 before 15.2R1 on EX4300 series switches allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service network loop and bandwidth consumption via unspecified vectors related to Spanning Tree Protocol STP traffic...

All Drupal Versions Open to Code Execution, Credential Theft Vulnerabilities

A number of issues exist in the content management system Drupal that could lead to code execution and the theft of database credentials via a man-in-the-middle attack, a researcher warns. The vulnerabilities lie in the way Drupal processes updates, according to Fernando Arnaboldi, senior securit...

Kerio Control 8.6.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Kerio Control 8.6.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities IntelliSec Security Advisory ============================================================================================== Title: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Kerio Control Virtual Appliance Vulnerabilities: SQL Injection, Remote Code Execution throu...

Kerio Control 8.6.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Title: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Kerio Control Virtual Appliance Vulnerabilities: SQL Injection, Remote Code Execution through CSRF Product: Kerio Control Homepage: http://www.kerio.com Affected Version: = 8.6.1 Fixed Version: 8.6.2 partiall...

Network Security Toolkit: NST

Network Security Toolkit NST is a bootable ISO image Live DVD based on Fedora providing easy access to best-of-breed Open Source Network Security Applications and should run on most x86/x8664 platforms. The main intent of developing this toolkit was to provide the security professional and networ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: xpra-0.15.6-1.fc22

Xpra is "screen for X": it allows you to run X programs, usually on a remote host, direct their display to your local machine, and then to disconnect fr om these programs and reconnect from the same or another machine, without losi ng any state. It gives you remote access to individual...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: xpra-0.15.6-1.fc23

Xpra is "screen for X": it allows you to run X programs, usually on a remote host, direct their display to your local machine, and then to disconnect fr om these programs and reconnect from the same or another machine, without losi ng any state. It gives you remote access to individual...

Speedtest - Command Line Interface for Testing Internet Bandwidth

speedtest-cli is a command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net Installation pip / easyinstall pip install speedtest-cli or easyinstall speedtest-cli Github pip install git+https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli.git or git clone...

Here's How to Stop Windows 7 or 8 from Downloading Windows 10 Automatically

Yesterday we reported you that Microsoft is auto-downloading Windows 10 installation files — between 3.5GB and 6GB — onto users' PCs even if they have not opted into the upgrade. Microsoft plans to deploy Windows 10 on over 1 Billion devices worldwide, and this auto-downloading Windows 10 could b...

Microsoft is Auto-Downloading Windows 10 to PCs, Even If You Don't Want it

Microsoft wholeheartedly wants you to upgrade to Windows 10. So much that even if you have not opted-in for Windows 10 upgrade, you will get it the other way. Surprised? If you have Windows Update enabled on your PCs running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, you’ll notice a large file — between 3.5GB and...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: pure-ftpd-1.0.36-7.fc21

Pure-FTPd is a fast, production-quality, standard-comformant FTP server, based upon Troll-FTPd. Unlike other popular FTP servers, it has no known security flaw, it is really trivial to set up and it is especially designed for modern Linux and FreeBSD kernels setfsuid, sendfile, capabilities...

RPC Portmapper Reflective DDoS Attacks

A number web hosting providers and businesses in the gaming industry were last month guinea pigs for a new type of amplified DDoS attack. Attackers have figured out how to use Portmapper, or RPC Portmapper, in reflection attacks where victims are sent copious amounts of responses from Portmapper...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: pure-ftpd-1.0.36-7.fc22

Pure-FTPd is a fast, production-quality, standard-comformant FTP server, based upon Troll-FTPd. Unlike other popular FTP servers, it has no known security flaw, it is really trivial to set up and it is especially designed for modern Linux and FreeBSD kernels setfsuid, sendfile, capabilities...

Sadly, Windows 10 Is Stealing Your Bandwidth 'By Default' — Disable It Immediately

After installing Windows 10, Feeling like your Internet Bandwidth is dropping away? Windows 10 is stealing your network bandwidth. Along with the privacy features related to Wi-Fi Sense, Windows 10 users should check for another hidden by default feature that uses your network bandwidth to share...