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How to turn a Raspberry Pi into a powerful Wi-Fi extender?

A Raspberry Pi board, a spare USB Wi-Fi adapter, and a few terminal commands can turn a credit-card-sized computer into a functioning wireless access point that rebroadcasts your router’s signal to ...

Who remembers IRC? Clearly some hackers, as a new Linux botnet uses some incredibly old-school methods to cut costs

Hackers resurrect 90s IRC tricks with SSHStalker, using old exploits to quietly compromise thousands of Linux servers globally ...
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Cool Linux distributions you should try out this weekend

And no, I'm not talking about Ubuntu ...
Network World

SSHStalker botnet brute-forces its way onto 7,000 Linux machines

A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login authentication. Researchers at Canada-based Flare Systems, who discovered the botnet, ...

New Linux botnet SSHStalker uses old-school IRC for C2 comms

A newly documented Linux botnet named SSHStalker is using the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) communication protocol for command-and-control (C2) operations.
Network World

NetBox Labs ships AI copilot designed for network engineers, not developers

As infrastructure automation demand surges, NetBox Labs is delivering an AI agent that enables natural language interaction ...