QNAP has fixed six rsync vulnerabilities that could let attackers gain remote code execution on unpatched Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. Rsync is an open-source file synchronization tool that ...

Looks like Rsync is my best option for backing up a couple of remote servers.<BR><BR>My question for Ars is this: what's the most secure way to do ownership and permissions?<BR><BR>I'm going to be ...

Topic ===== remote exploit in rsync server Problem Description ===== The rsync suite provides client and server tools to easily support an administrator keeping the files of different machines in sync ...

Rysinc was found to be vulnerable to at least six flaws One of the bugs is a critical-severity RCE, experts warn Users and vendors are advised to update to version 3.4.0 immediately Rsync, a popular ...

Andrew Tridgell's rsync is a useful file-transfer tool, one that has no encryption support of its own but is easily “wrapped” (tunneled) by encryption tools such as SSH and Stunnel. What ...

I hate to admit it, but I’ve screwed up many times throughout the years when it’s come to using computers. My first big “Oh shi!” moment came when I was about 8-years-old, goofing around on my ...

Maybe you want the directories that you synchronize to be exact copies of each other or maybe you just don’t. Let’s dig a little more deeply into the rsync command and see if we can’t find just the ...

Last month we covered setting up an rsync server for anonymous access. Listing 1 shows the sample rsyncd.conf file from last month, illustrating some options particularly useful for tightening ...