Scary Beasts Security

APRIL 9, 2012

vsftpd-3.0.0 is released. Aside from the usual few fixes, I'm excited about built-in support for Will Drewry's seccomp filter, which landed in Ubuntu. To give it a whirl, you'll need a 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 (beta at time of writing), and a 64-bit build of vsftpd. Why all the excitement? vsftpd has always piled on all of the Linux sandboxing / privilege facilities available, including chroot, capabilities, file descriptor passing, pid / network / etc. namespaces, rlimits, and even a ptrace-based de

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

APRIL 17, 2012

With a little over a month until the ICO’s self-imposed 12 month moratorium on enforcement of the new cookies rule […].

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Scary Beasts Security

APRIL 3, 2012

Just a quick note that vsftpd-3.0.0 is imminent. The big-ticket item is the new seccomp filter sandboxing support. Please test this, particularly on 64-bit Ubuntu Precise Beta 2 (or newer) or if you use SSL support. I would love to get a quick note (e-mail or comment here) even if just to say it seems to work in your configuration.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

APRIL 3, 2012

There are certainly many headline-grabbing elements in the European Commission’s proposed Data Protection Regulation – a directly applicable regulation replacing […].

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