Cloudbleed aka Cloudleak is a bug in Cloudflare which is a CDN service, a proxy service, and a DNS provider… well to be honest cloudflare is a LOT of things these days and provides a freemium set of services, you can run your site using their DNS, proxy / CDN service for free or pay $20-$200, to […]
Category Archives: Security
Mooooo linux Dirty cow vulnerbility cve-2016-5195
What is Dirty Cow CVE-2016-5195 is a bug in the Copy On Write mechanism of the Kernel. Any user or user owned process can gain write access to memory mappings which should be read only for the end user. This allows them to interact with otherwise root only files. Should you worry about it? YES. you […]
virustotal api policy changes to curb one sided usage
Virustotal is a webapp that lets you upload files to check them for viruses before you install them. You can also scan a URL directly or search the VirusTotal database. The great thing about virustotal is that it checks the uploaded file against many commercial antivirus and malware detection engines not just one, and then […]
Cisco Anyconnect VPN issues
I had to use cisco Anyconnect VPN client on windows 8 X64 and it was giving me errors. usually something like : “The VPN Client driver has encountered an error” when I was trying to connect. well found the fix by stalking cisco forums. Go to the Windows 8 Start Screen by pressing the Windows key. Type regedit to initiate an […]