LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Cups”

582: On the CUPS of Disaster

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:00:00 -0700

We explain the one-packet attack on CUPS and discuss its real-world implications. Plus, a Meshtastic update and more.

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Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS — A remote unauthenticated attacker can silently replace existing printers’ (or install new ones) IPP urls with a malicious one, resulting in arbitrary command execution (on the computer) when a print job is started (from that computer).
Marcus Hutchins Scan finds 107,287 servers responding to the UDP port 631 — Instead of relying on Shodan data, I performed my own internet-wide scan using a distributed network of servers. This resulted in discovering drastically more exposed cups-browsed instances, causing my total count to rise from 13,289 to 107,287.
Shodan on X: 75,000 exposed CUPS daemons on the Internet
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nodeboard — Your Ultimate Digital Inventory Manager
Lightning Pay
activate-linux — The "Activate Windows" watermark ported to Linux
Install Frog on Linux | Flathub — Extract text from images, websites, videos, and QR codes by taking a picture of the source.
Clapgrep — Ever had a folder full of PDF files, where you knew, somewhere in there, is what you're looking for. But you did not know in which file. So you had to search each of them at a time...

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 12:00:00 -0700

Is the Linux desktop hard to love? A long-time user experience developer argues it is, and we respond to his criticisms.

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 18:30:00 -0800

We get into the Linux Mint mindset after years away and share our take on Cinnamon's many improvements.

Plus news that'll have knock-on effects for the rest of the year, and more.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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