How to Make Lando Work with Ubuntu 20.04

How to Make Lando Work with Ubuntu 20.04

Lando is a local development environment and DevOps tool built on Docker container technology, aimed at providing an easy way for developers to specify requirements for their projects. It provides installation packages for various operating systems, including Ubuntu. However, if you are not using the official Docker distribution, Lando will likely fail to install.

In this article, we describe two workarounds on how to install Lando on Ubuntu.

ConfigServer’s Login Failure Daemon is Vulnerable to Denial of Service Attacks

ConfigServer’s Login Failure Daemon is Vulnerable to Denial of Service Attacks

Login Failure Daemon (lfd) is a process that monitors the authentication log and matches all its lines against the set of regular expressions to detect login attempts that continually fail within a short period of time. It is often used to detect login failures of SSH connections. However, the regular expressions lfd uses to detect brute force attacks contain severe errors, and an attacker can exploit those bugs to cause a denial of service attack.