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  1. Yes, I Know IT ! 🎓 (yesiknowit@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Apr-2018 07:19:48 EDT Yes, I Know IT ! 🎓 Yes, I Know IT ! 🎓

    "Keep your system up to date and apply security patches," said the TV after the Meltdown story.

    "Review the patch before applying them," said the security expert. Indeed, the satirical (?) website https://holeybeep.ninja/ try to convince you to apply a patch supposedly improving the security of your system.

    But this is the exact same opposite: by exploiting a bug in the patch program itself, it will execute arbitrary code on your system.

    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=894667#19
    #CVE #IT #Security #Tojan #Hoax

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