According to the change log, OpenSSH 9.0 suffered a "near miss" - a potential vulnerability that was found and fixed before anyone could attempt to exploit it: "Near miss in sshd(8): fix an integer overflow in the user authentication path that, in conjunction with other logic errors, could have yielded unauthenticated access under difficult to exploit conditions. This situation is not exploitable because of independent c...
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Happy Easter! Did you know there's an "Easter Megathread" on LowEndTalk right now? There will be exclusive deals published directly by our community hosts, so be sure to check out the deals and show s...
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When I heard that Elon Musk is toying with the idea of buying Twitter, I wondered why he'd want it. I suppose he thinks on grander societal scales than I do, and perhaps he sees some strategic use fo...
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The Phishing Attack On April 9, 2022, some not-so-nice ungentleman went phishing. As announced on Low End Talk, phishing emails were received by several Low End Talk members. The phishing emails false...
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India's Criminal Procedure Identification bill passed in parliament last week and is raising concerns about government snooping. The law requires those arrested or detained to provide biometric data (...
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Ok...just kidding. There are no benchmark wars. But if you're into benchmarking, you should check out LowEndTalk member @Liso's fork of the famous YABS script, which is getting some discussion over t...
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This Editorial is @Not_Oles' personal opinion. Although this Editorial is published here at Low End Box, nobody but @Not_Oles participated in the selection of the topic or in the writing. Hello! Recen...
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To continue LowEndBox’s new “interesting news” series, we recently received a new submission from Dustin B. Cisneros over at RackNerd to let us know that their highly anticipated Windows VPS product l...
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Are you getting enough LowEnd in your life? If you're already obsessively hitting refresh on LowEndBox.com but still want more, we have some things you might be interested in. First, if you're not re...
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If you’re a hosting provider around these parts, chances are you’ve heard of Clientexec by now. If you haven’t, Clientexec is a web hosting billing & support system, and is considered one of the t...
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Today's the last day to enter our amazing giveaway! Community provider RackNerd, recently voted Best Provider and Most Professional Provider, is giving away: A 2021 Apple 10.2-inch iPad (Wi-Fi, 64GB,...
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I have a set of domains that I renew every year and this year I decided not to renew them at NameSilo. As a registrar, I've never had an issue with NameSilo. However, their service has some things th...
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Word is out of a new vulnerability in Chrome, and it sounds serious. If your browser has an update, you should definitely restart to apply to reach version 99.0.4844.84. New updates are out for Wind...
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In the past 30 days, over 70,000 IT professionals have fled Russia. The Russian Association of Electronic Communications (RAEC) expects them to be joined by an additional 100,00 by end of April. Acco...
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Okta (NASDAQ:OKTA), which provides digital identity authentication services to big companies, confirmed Tuesday that it had suffered a security breach. Their stock plunged nearly 9% as reports piled...
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Sometime in "late 2023", Google will finally phase out third party cookie for Chrome. Finally. Firefox has been blocking them since 2019, and Safari does as well. No one uses Edge, which leaves Chro...
Read MoreIBM is planning to scale their Q System One quantum computing platform rather dramatically, according to their published roadmap. The QSO (surely there is a product number for this like 9184 - everyth...
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The community's favorite CDN provider, Bunny.net, has introduced BunnyDNS. So for 99% of us, it's another option for DNS hosting, and because it's Bunny and they have a premium CDN network through the...
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Recently I purchased a copy of the hoary old tome you see pictured to the right on Amazon: "A Guide to FORTRAN IV Programming" by Daniel D. McCraken, 2nd edition, 1967. For those who have never heard...
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You might have noticed that LowEndBox has been publishing some really awesome content recently -- news, interviews and hosting deals. We've also welcomed another content contributor to our ranks recen...
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According to news reports, demand for VPN services by Russians is surging. Between February 24 and March 8, the top VPN apps in various mobile app stores saw nearly 6 million downloads, an increase o...
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The U.S. federal government is poised to plan to ask for money form a group to admire the problem of regulating cryptocurrency. That's essentially what the news is about this morning. Major news agen...
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Last year, on May 26, 2021 @alvin posted on Low End Talk about Oracle releasing 200 GB of storage for Oracle Free Tier VMs. Beginning last year, according to the screenshot @alvin posted, the Oracle F...
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LowEndTalk Administrator emeritus @jar drew the community's attention to a change that could affect you if you run DirectAdmin. DA has moved to a key-based licensing infrastructure, and they shut off...
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According to Rolling Stone (paywall'd now), Ukraine has asked ICANN to disconnect Russia from the Internet. This is not something ICANN is capable of doing. The reporting by RS was not entirely clear...
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...down the toilet. A legal firm named Chimicles, Schwartz, Kriner and Donaldson is taking a break from chasing ambulances to conduct a "class action investigation" to decide if it will commence a cla...
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I was so excited a few days ago to see a great offer from Interserver posted over at Low End Talk! Haha, in my excitement, I read too fast! I skipped important words in the offer! Those important word...
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Invitation To Join Me For MIT's Free Online Operating System Course!
Did you ever have something you wanted to do for a long time but never actually started? Maybe something that seemed too big or too difficult? For a long time I've wanted to take MIT's Operating Syste...
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