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Five Times When Updating Your OS Would Have Saved You From Being Hacked

Every checklist you've ever seen for securing your VPS includes "update your system regularly".  But is that one of those "best practices" that is more theoretical than a real-world necessity? To be honest, it's easy to not get around to running "apt update && apt upgrade".  In my experience, at least with Debian, updates rarely break things but it's always a small risk.  Nevertheless, it requires remembering to do it, spending the commands run, maybe rebooting, etc. Unfortunately, history has shown time and time again that skipping OS updates can leave even the best admins wide open to disaster. 

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Five Times When Updating Your OS Would Have Saved You From Being Hacked

Exim Didn't Fix a Vulnerability for a Year and Now It's Public

Exim has another vulnerability and its owners seem to care even less than they did last time this happened.

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Exim Didn't Fix a Vulnerability for a Year and Now It's Public

LowEndBoxTV: Weekend Update for May 8, 2021

Want to win some cool Star Wars prizes? Looking for a cheap Windows VPS starting at only $4.50/mo? Want shared hosting for $3/year? Want a cheap domain? Do you run exim in a state of security ignoranc...

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LowEndBoxTV: Weekend Update for May 8, 2021

Patch Your Exim Installs: "21 Nails" Vulnerability

Thanks to LowEndTalk administrator emeritus @jar for alerting the community to a range of exim vulnerabilities published by Qualys.  There is a family of both local and remote vulnerabilities. tl;dr:...

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