This is the final summary of our 2021 security hardening holiday calendar. We wanted to provide educational, useful, and actionable security advice, and we’re really pleased with the reception! Thank you for reading and following along. Week 1-3 summary (1-21/25) We posted summaries for the 3 …
The internet has been ablaze since the announcement of Log4Shell, the nickname for CVE-2021-44228, an arbitrary remote code execution vulnerability in the Java logging utility Log4j. So far two additional vulnerabilities (CVE 2021-45046, CVE-2021-45105) have been identified. If you are interested in …
This December, we are posting security advice and modules, every day until December 25th. Now, it’s December 21st, and we’ve gotten through most of the security hardening holiday calendar: Week 1 & 2 summary (1-14/25) We posted summaries for the 2 first weeks of the calendar: Week 1 …
In January of 2021 Qualys security researchers discovered a heap overflow vulnerability in sudo, an extremely common tool installed in most Unix and Linux operating systems. Sudo allows users to execute programs with the privileges of another user but the vulnerability allows any unprivileged user …
This December, we are posting security advice and modules, every day until December 25th. Now, it’s December 14th, and we’ve gotten to the fourteenth day of the security hardening holiday calendar: Week 1 summary (1-7/25) If you didn’t see it yet, we posted a summary last week. …
Today, we are pleased to announce the release of CFEngine 3.19.0! In 2021, for this release, and the launch of CFEngine Build, our focus has been on collaboration. We want to deliver a lot of value to our users through modules, and enable you to share and cooperate on policy, promise types, …
Software quality has been a topic and an area of interest since the dawn of software itself. And as software evolved so did the techniques and approaches to assuring its high quality. Better computers providing more computing power, bigger storage and faster communication have allowed software …
This year we decided to provide security focused modules and content for the holiday season. These are parts of the security configuration we implement on our own infrastructure, based on OpenSCAP and other sources. By putting these into easy to use modules and writing about it, we hope to give our …
We are pleased to announce two new patch releases for CFEngine, version 3.15.5 and 3.18.1! These releases mainly contain bug fixes and dependency updates. What’s new In addition to bug fixes, some smaller features and improvements were added to 3.18.1. These additions are focused on the …
Join us as we embark on an adventure to create and publish a new CFEngine Build module. Nick (Doer of Things) demonstrates he knows the proper offerings the gods require by writing and publishing a new CFEngine Build Module from scratch, live, with no safety net! Video The video recording is …
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