July 2021 – /dev/dg

GootLoader

2021-07-27 (2021-08-10) dg

A lot has been written about GootLoader and the eventual malware that it drops (GootKit and/or REvil) by researchers far more knowledgable than myself – so I won’t tread too much on old ground. I happened to come across an incident involving GootLoader recently and was impressed at the level […]

Persistent iptables

2021-07-10 (2021-08-10) dg

Out of the box, any changes you make to your iptables on Linux will be discarded on reboot. That might not always be desirable. There’s a package sitting in the repos for Ubuntu that allows your changes to persist. sudo apt install iptables-persistent On install it offers the option to […]