Category: Scripting & Security

Warning: Change your Google Account Password
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Warning: Change your Google Account Password

By ben.kevan on Apr 22, 2010 in Vulnerabilities

Today my gmail account was commandeered by a spammer, and spam emails were sent from it to many mailing lists, along with all my contacts. [ continue reading... ]

KDE KDM Vulnerability Elevation of Privilage
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KDE KDM Vulnerability Elevation of Privilage

By ben.kevan on Apr 13, 2010 in Vulnerabilities

Sebastian Krahmer from the SUSE Security team has found a vulnerability in KDM which will allow a local user to elevate their privileges to root [ continue reading... ]

VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2010-0007
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VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2010-0007

By ben.kevan on Apr 09, 2010 in Scripting & Security, Vulnerabilities

VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2010-0007 Synopsis: VMware hosted products, vCenter Server and ESX patches resolve multiple security issues Issue date: 2010-04-09 Updated on: 2010-04-09 [ continue reading... ]

Firefox 3.5 and Xulrunner Ubuntu vulnerabilities
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Firefox 3.5 and Xulrunner Ubuntu vulnerabilities

By ben.kevan on Apr 09, 2010 in Scripting & Security, Vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-921-1 April 09, 2010 firefox-3.5, xulrunner-1.9.1 vulnerabilities CVE-2010-0173, CVE-2010-0174, CVE-2010-0175, CVE-2010-0176, CVE-2010-0177, CVE-2010-0178, CVE-2010-0179, CVE-2010-0181, CVE-2010-0182 =========================================================== A security issue affects the [ continue reading... ]

WordPress Drop Down JavaScript jQuery Issue
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WordPress Drop Down JavaScript jQuery Issue

By ben.kevan on Jan 23, 2010 in Scripting & Security

While building / fixing a few things on the websites new template, I ran across an interesting problem with the drop down menu’s. Originally the [ continue reading... ]

Microsoft Emergency Out-of-Band Security Update
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Microsoft Emergency Out-of-Band Security Update

By ben.kevan on Jan 21, 2010 in Scripting & Security, Vulnerabilities

As most of you have heard there has recently been an exploit in Internet Explorer that caused data breaches at some of the largest companies [ continue reading... ]

How to find out how long a process has been running (elapsed time)
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How to find out how long a process has been running (elapsed time)

By ben.kevan on May 27, 2009 in Scripting & Security, Shell Scrips

Ever wondered how long a process has been running? Did you know how to find it? Well, it’s actually quite simple and can be done [ continue reading... ]

Script to look for file modified in the last minute while loop
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Script to look for file modified in the last minute while loop

By ben.kevan on Feb 12, 2009 in Scripting & Security, Shell Scrips

I was on a journey to get a script that would check to see if a file (with wildcard) has changed in the last minute, [ continue reading... ]

Script for adding new users
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Script for adding new users

By ben.kevan on Oct 25, 2008 in Scripting & Security, Shell Scrips

A few people have asked about scripting new user installation for your needs so I thought I would share the script I have made and [ continue reading... ]

RedHat.com Servers Infiltrated – Time for Novell’s big move?
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RedHat.com Servers Infiltrated – Time for Novell’s big move?

By ben.kevan on Aug 25, 2008 in Vulnerabilities

I was going about my day at work and went to go on www.redhat.com, only to find out that “The site is temporarily unavaliable. Please [ continue reading... ]

Converting your m4a music files to mp3
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Converting your m4a music files to mp3

By ben.kevan on Jun 29, 2008 in Scripting & Security, Shell Scrips

Have you found yourself in posession of music or audio files that were in m4a format and wanted them as mp3′s? Well good thing it [ continue reading... ]