Yesterday Apple released a security update for a number of critical flaws found in the NTP (Network Time Protocol) service that OS X utilizes. The most worrisome of these is a buffer overflow that allows an attacker to remotely send specially crafted packets to a system, resulting in them being able to run malicious code with the privileges of the ntpd service (system level privileges on OS X). Be aware though, since NTP is an open source protocol more than just Macs are affected. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2014
How to use LFTP
This guide is going to cover using LFTP as an FTP client. The primary reason for using LFTP over something like Transmit is because it supports file segmentation. I will first give a very brief explanation of what file segmentation is, how it differs than normal transfers, and how it may help you. Continue reading