Holy Sh** #Microsoft has installed the simplest backdoor in your #Linux VMs without you knowing about it.
Microsoft Azure silently install management agents on your Linux VMs without an auto update mechanism, so you have to update manually but you don't know they exist because you didn't install them? 🤔
Simply remove the auth header and you are root. Remotely on all machines.🤯
https://www.wiz.io/blog/secret-agent-exposes-azure-customers-to-unauthorized-code-execution
@thomasfuchs I'd put that one in one class with "CUPS not printing Cairo-generated PDFs on tuesdays" and that old 500-mile bug. :D
pam-duress: A Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) which allows the establishment of alternate passwords that can be used to perform actions to clear sensitive data, notify IT/Security staff, close off sensitive network connections, etc if a user is coerced into giving a threat actor a password.
I'm pretty sure this is how flat earthers and COVID deniers started. It was an absurd joke someone made to make fun of conspiracy theorists. It underestimated the stupidity of these people and became a real thing...
How long before we hear the fediverse filled with people thinking this shit is legit too.
QT: https://shitposter.club/objects/4d54af72-3e72-483d-9e1b-84220b50248a
Just a reminder, historic climate change predictions modeling human caused global warming has turned out to be surprisingly accurate.
The attached image shows the average of the leading predictions from 2004 and how it tracks to the actual observed climate change. The accuracy turned out to be quite exceptional.
Popular webcomic "The Oatmeal" no longer asks people to follow them on #Facebook, #Twitter, #instagram etc. Here's their explanation as to why (contains minor swearing):
(from https://theoatmeal.com/comics/reaching_people )
PS Currently if you want to follow them, visit here:
https://theoatmeal.com/pages/subscribe
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