Security: Penetration Testing, IPFire and Microsoft/NSA Back Doors in Baltimore

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9 List of Best Free Penetration Testing tools
Things you need to know about Pentesting: Penetration Testing or often called PenTesting tools are basic utility applications for any Ethical Hacker job. To be clear we are not promoting any hacking crime or breaking digital security rules, this article is completely for educational purposes.
In this article, we will be discussing Penetration Testing methods and about the needed useful utilities for that purpose.
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Bug fest
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IPFire 2.23 - Core Update 132 is available for testing
Two new types of vulnerabilities have been found in Intel processors. They cannot be fixed unless the hardware is changed, but can be somewhat mitigated through some changes in the Linux kernel (4.14.120) and an update microcode (version 20190514). Both is shipped in this release.
Additionally, to mitigate this bug which cannot be fixed at all, SMT is disabled by default on all affected processors which has significant performance impacts.
Please note, that Intel unfortunately is not releasing microcode for all processors any more and so you might still be vulnerable.
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[Attackers] reportedly used a tool developed by the NSA to attack Baltimore’s computer systems
Baltimore’s [Windows] computers were hit with the [Windows] ransomware attack earlier this month, and city officials have said that they won’t pay (via The New York Times) the $76,000 ransom demand. The city has begun to implement some workarounds, manually processing real estate transactions and setting up a Gmail system for city workers, which Google initially shut down, but has since restored. In the meantime, The Baltimore Sun reports that the city’s IT department is working to restore access to the city’s systems while improving their security while they do so.
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