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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

Irritation Removed: You Do Everything As Root And Hate Manually Removing Sudo From Copy-Paste Commands

You don't use sudo, but you're constantly coming across commands that are prefixed with sudo. Tired of having to first edit them to remove the sudo? We have a one-time solution for you.

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Irritation Removed: You Do Everything As Root And Hate Manually Removing Sudo From Copy-Paste Commands

Huge sudo Security Issue - Update Your Systems Now!

News broke today of a new security vulnerability in sudo, a widely used Linux/BSD/Unix utility that allows regular users to execute commands with elevated privileges. Typically, a user may need elevat...

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Huge sudo Security Issue - Update Your Systems Now!

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