I’m a security professional and former sysadmin in the Midwest USA. I like technology and what you can do with it.
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On this channel I upload videos about using technology to do cool things. These often involve automations with tools like Ansible, Terraform, Powershell, Bash, or Python. Some videos have a security focus, others are about building infrastructure.
Here you’ll learn about how to use virtualization, Linux, servers, the cloud, and how to secure it all.
On distrowatch Linux Mint is number two ubuntu's number 5 it's almost twice as popular. I think with updates your quick to be notified but having the option to install that's on the user in my humble opinion which is the way it should be as opposed to something like Windows which does whatever it wants! They also have Debian edition!
Ah Linux Mint as someone who ran arch, ubuntu and fedora. This distro is by far the most hated distro for me as whenever I try to run it I always come across problems that I can't fix. Yet on arch I can fix them....
First video I've disagreed with you on. While I do think Zorin OS is better I would still recommend Mint over Unbuntu any day. For most people system stability is more important than having the latest security updates. Most people do not need the latest kernel either and will get no benefit from it while the potential for problems is pretty high.
I see what you're saying but I like Mint. No issues; just works. When I use Fedora as a desktop, I'm constantly running into issues watching RU-vid. Mint's a good desktop.
Windows 11 sucks and everybody hates it. Why would you want cinnamon to resemble it? There's no point in scrambling the menus all over the place just to pretend like you're innovating.
To a new user, having the system working is generally more important than having the latest security. One of the biggest problems for newbies is "I don't know why it's not working". Obscure outdated exploits is not an usual one.
Mint always got the criticism about the dependency of Ubuntu and I agree with that, but lot of people forget, they launched LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) for a while, which forked directly from Debian instead of Ubuntu and I think it's a really safe and yet a good for beginners whom came from Windows environment, but I agree, Cinnamon is not the best, it's better to getting into more common Linux desktops, but for older people (or any non-power users) who are just using their PCs for browsing, etc LMDE is still a safe and easier transition.
There's a flag you can put on a powershell script to hide the window on the victim machine. I don't recall how it works, just wanted to mention that it's a thing you can do.
@@CybersecPat I don't remember; I think you can launch powershell with something like -WindowsStyle Hidden or something to that effect. So you could have your malware dump a shortcut in a user's startup folder to launch a powershell script with that argument and it would open a reverse shell in the background, but without actually displaying an interactive window.
Finally, I'm trying to explain to one of my older colleague why he shouldn't use Win7, just "because it's still working", I sent him this video, I hope he'll change his mind!
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Lots of great info on your channel, thanks! Does the .sh file execute remotely like in Linux Mint I cant run an sh file without enabling it or making executable by default they don't run correct? Curious how all these test would work on the mainstream distros like Fedora 40, Arch or Deb12 by default the Ubuntu forks dont enable the firewall where Fedora 40 does!
Yeah, but you're logged into Ubuntu using a username and password w acess to the home directory. You bypassed the permissions security by doing it to your own computer. I'm not saying it's impossible and it can't happen, but if you didn't have the password and access, your encryption program wouldn't have execution permissions, neither would your external shell.
That is accurate! I suppose you can compare this to a tutorial on hotwiring a car. I’m not showing how to get into the car, just what can be done to gain control over it if someone leaves their’s unlocked.
Thanks for the upload. No OS in the world is truly foolproof, not even badware block DNS on your router. The one sitting in front of the computer has to be responsible, always. 🫶
Yes if someone with a brain is in your computer it's over and that will always be true. But there is no way to easily do that especially once you turn off ssh server which is silly to even run on a home machine. And even the antivirus won't stop ransomware except by having it in some list so it is pretty useless, and in windows you can skip that too.
@@fflecker The world is not limited to Windows, in fact there are superior solutions with RHEL, Suse, RockyLinux or Alma which have 10 years of support guaranteed instead of rubbish Debian and Ubuntu which love to accumulate vulnerabilities by only supporting them for 2 years
@@fflecker It's not even necessary, why use something that only guarantees 2 years of support and allows you to add a thousand and one vulnerabilities? It's crazy to use Debian and Ubuntu since there are superior distributions in security such as RHEL, Fedora, RockyLinux or AlmaLinux, security is not the point of Debian and its workarounds
@@fflecker It's not even necessary, why use something that only guarantees 2 years of support and allows you to add a thousand and one vulnerabilities? It's crazy to use Debian and Ubuntu since there are superior distributions in security such as RHEL, Fedora, RockyLinux or AlmaLinux, security is not the point of Debian and its workarounds
@@fflecker It's not even necessary, why use something that only guarantees 2 years of support and allows you to add a thousand and one vulnerabilities? It's crazy to use Debian and Ubuntu since there are superior distributions in security such as RHEL, Fedora, RockyLinux or AlmaLinux, security is not the point of Debian and its workarounds
It's very similar like Linux (Unix-like vs Unix :) ), and it's a huge different to ask the password vs click OK if you want to run as administrator like Windows do, but if the user get used to it, because have admin privilege anyway, it's not real different between any OS in relation of security. The key is still the (power-/end-)user awareness and the good user-right management (not just in companies, but at home too eg if kids also using the same PC).
There are plenty of security applications for Linux (which includes Ubuntu), including anti-virus. Please do your due diligence before putting a video of this quality.
