Episode 263: Log4Shell Security Alert‪!‬ Ask Noah Show

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00:45 Steve's OpenSuse Experience


Splash Screen
Kernel Panic


03:10 Caller Ed


Best VM server
Proxmox
Libvirt + Cockpit
Ovirt


08:08 Sleuth Asked


Is there software to send and receive audio over the network that work on phones and Linux machines? My usecase is I want to listen to podcasts from antennapod on my computer and to monitor jitsi and mumble from my phone.
Alsa Mixer
IceCast


09:58 TwoBit Asked


Still using the Google Glass?
Yes


10:43 Docker Server - Mathieu


TLS/HTTPS is more than a cert
HAProxy/Nginx Reverse Proxy
Check documentation for the project
Security is more than closing ports
LetsEncrypt


19:25 Archiving Emails? - Jose


Download an archive + Thunderbird


23:26 SIP Questions - Andrew


3CX SBC
Upgrade Router to PFSense/OPNSense


28:10 Pick of the Week


CasaOS
Help Net Security Article
Based on Docker
Easy Self Hosted Services


30:23 Gadget of the Week


M5stick
$14 ESP32 Dev Kit


32:52 Centos 8 EOL


ZDNet Article
CentOS EOL Dec 31 2021
Zero Day security patches until Jan 31 2022
Options


Red Hat Proper
Free Red Hat Developer License's
CentOS Stream
Alma Linux
Cloud Linux OS
Rocky Linux



38:00 Toyota Makes Keyfob a Service


The Drive Article
Requiring subscription to use local keyfob functions


40:38 Pop!_OS 21.10 Released


System76 Blog Post
Tech preview of Pop!_OS 21.10 for the RaspberryPi
System Refresh feature
Lots of new features


42:44 Main Segment - log4j Vulnerability


CVE-2021-44228
Remote Code Execution
Actively being exploited in the wild
Used in embedded and IOT devices as well
Minecraft Exploit Example
2.14.1 and earlier vulnerable
Fixed in Log4j 2.15.0
Github Attack Surface List
Responsible disclosure was not followed
Alternative mitigations available
Flip the environmental variable ES JAVA OPTS= -D log4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=True
Cloudflare Mitigation
Help Net Security Article
Fortune Article
We Live Securtiy Article
The Next Web Article


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