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Thursday, March 11th, 2021
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Event |
| 1:33a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 11, 2021
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 11, 2021 is available. | | 2:48p |
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (zeromq3), Oracle (dotnet, dotnet3.1, python3, and wpa_supplicant), and Red Hat (wpa_supplicant). | | 3:03p |
[$] Creating an SSH honeypot Many developers use SSH to access their systems, so it is not surprising that SSH servers are widely attacked. During the FOSDEM 2021 conference, Sanja Bonic and Janos Pasztor reported on their experiment using containers as a way to easily create SSH honeypots — fake servers that allow administrators to observe the actions of attackers without risking a production system. The conversational-style talk walked the audience through the process of setting up an SSH server to play the role of the honeypot, showed what SSH attacks look like, and gave a number of suggestions on how to improve the security of SSH servers. | | 3:49p |
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Asahi Linux progress report The Asahi Linux project, which is working to build a distribution for M1-based Apple systems, has published a
progress report for January and February. " Apple Silicon Macs
boot in a completely different way from PCs. The way they work is more akin
to embedded platforms (like Android phones, or, of course, iOS devices),
but with quite a few bespoke mechanisms thrown in. However, Apple has taken
a few steps to make this boot process feel closer to that of an Intel Mac,
so there has been a lot of confusion around how things actually work. For
example, did you know that Apple Silicon Macs cannot boot from external
storage at all, in the traditional sense? Or that the bootloader on Apple
Silicon Macs cannot show a graphical user interface at all, and that the
“Boot Picker” is in fact a full-screen macOS app, not part of the
bootloader?" |
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