2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
2.5 Admins 204: Maybe Don’t 5
A widely-used login system is still using MD5 which is bad news, miscreants took over some domains when they moved from Google to Squarespace, Linksys’ sloppy app isn’t a huge problem but is a bad sign, and why backing up an Android phone in one go is pretty much impossible without root.
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New Blast-RADIUS attack breaks 30-year-old protocol used in networks everywhere
Squarespace migration linked to DNS hijacking, claims report
Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers
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