AJAX call creates a user named wpservices with the email wpservices@yandex.com and the password w0rdpr3ss. With this user in place, the attacker is free to install further backdoors or perform other malicious activity. Defense: Block these IPs in cPanel / IP Blocker:
Category: Technical
VMs on AMD EPYC server platforms compromised
AMD EPYC server platforms (codename “Naples”) running SEV firmware version 0.17 build 11 and below. SEV protects guest virtual machines from the hypervisor, provides confidentiality guarantees at runtime and remote attestation at launch time. SEV key management code runs inside the Platform Security Processor (PSP). The SEV elliptic-curve (ECC) implementation was found to be vulnerable to an invalid curve attack.
Windows 10 Feature Update 1903 is available
Windows 10 Feature Update 1903 is available. If your Windows 10 PC does not automatically start this update, noted as a FEATURE update instead of the usual CUMULATIVE update, then you can force it yourself by browsing to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 on the Microsoft web site.
Jetpack locks out administrators after update
JetPack locks you out of your WordPress site after updating. My approach to solving this problem, took two (2) minutes.
fsck update needed GNU/Linux Mint v18 -> v19 file systems
GNU/Linux is built of many programs around a kernel. One of those programs is used to check your file system for errors before mounting it while booting. If errors are detected then the boot process stops and places you at a command line where you must somehow repair your disk so that your system can…