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Let‘s Encrypt

A free TLS certificate from Let's Encrypt means you can add encryption to your network for no cost, so you don't have any more excuses for failing to encrypt. (more)

Ubuntu Forums Breached Again

Canonical’s failure to patch the forum software leads to the intrusion (more)

Pokemon Go Hacked by OurMine

Cell phone game sensation raises questions about security and privacy (more)

Extract Pages from a PDF File with a GUI Bash Script

Every now and then I need to extract individual pages from PDF files. Usually, I use a one-line pdftk command that uses the pdftk toolkit to pull a range of pages out of a specified PDF file.

(more)

Google Authenticator

Google Authenticator provides one-time passwords to smartphone owners for multifactor authentication, or you can integrate it into other applications, such as blogs. (more)

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Linux Filesystem Admin

Linux filesystems range from block-based network filesystems, to temporary filesystems in RAM, to pseudo filesystems. We explain how filesystems are set up and how to manage them. (more)

Zero Day UEFI Exploit Affecting Lenovo, HP, and Gigabyte Laptops

There is no fix for the vulnerability yet. (more)

Millions of Android Devices Affected by Chinese Malware

China-based advertising firm has close ties with the group behind this malware. (more)

Altaro VM Backup

Running VMware or Hyper-V? Backup up VMs for Free!

With an easy setup you will be scheduling your first virtual machine backups in a matter of minutes. Replicate backups offsite and restore files and Exchange emails directly from your backups. One management console to manage all backup jobs and hosts.

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