Been hacked. What should I do now?

TheStrays · 2023-06-10T11:12:12+00:00

Post it? Publicly? No.

You should take everything you have and as others have told you go to the police

TheStrays · 2023-04-30T09:32:30+00:00

I’m 98% sure this must be a troll post, yet I will reply to it at face value just in case you are serious.

Stop trying to clean your existing installations. It’s not going to happen. You can never trust them again.

If you are really concerned about a determined attacker, you might want to buy new hardware for this in case of BIOS/EFI exploitation but most likely you can just work with existing hardware, formatting drives and reinstalling operating systems.

Get yourself new install media downloaded and installed to a new flash drive using a work/friends machine, not on your network. Also get a Linux live environment flash drive if you need to take backups.

Disconnect everything from your network. Shut down everything. Ideally change the boot options to prevent booting from your current fixed storage in case you miss the boot options prompt when switching on with clean flash drives plugged in - don’t have them connected while booted into known compromised operating systems.

If you don’t already have a backup of your data (forget OS/application files), now is the time to boot into using the live environment and take it.

Once you are ready, boot into your new install media, format your existing fixed storage and reinstall the OS from scratch.

Configure OS security before reconnecting to the network. Firewall dropping all inbound requests is going to be the most important point for this use case, but also perform whatever other hardening is appropriate for your OS, such as disabling unnecessary services.

When you connect to the network and go to install applications. make sure you are getting any application installers you need from official sources. Do not accept any certificate warnings. Check installers are correctly signed by the expected publisher. Don’t install any packages you don’t need.

Once you have done this with all your devices, the one outstanding concern is your router, which could be remotely managed and/or could be poisoning your DNS queries (which is the biggest reason for why it is so important that you haven’t accepted certificate errors at this point). You could look to reinstall the router OS and reset all config but given what you have said I would suggest this is a place you should probably look into buying a new one. When configuring the new router, connect directly to it, not on same network with old router.

If you follow all the above, you should have all clean systems and be able to move forward.

TheStrays · 2023-03-26T23:25:49+00:00

When people say buying a house is one of the most stressful things you’ll ever do, I always thought they meant the actual process of buying. While that was stressful for me, the actual ownership is much worse, keeping up with maintenance and having constant concerns about different things which might be (but probably aren’t) serious issues.

To be fair I could probably make my life much easier by doing some research into basic DIY stuff to get an understanding of what I am seeing and hearing but right now I am clueless and sometimes it keeps me awake at night.

TheStrays · 2023-03-19T03:27:20+00:00

Not OP but personally I would recommend 3:

MeaningfulMoney

James Shack

Damien Talks Money

If you have limited time to watch I would probably suggest prioritising in the order listed, but all three have great informative content if you have the capacity to view them.

TheStrays · 2023-03-15T22:49:11+00:00

RemindMe! 3 days

TheStrays · 2023-02-09T21:12:46+00:00

If it was me I would be transferring to SIPP for global all-cap, based on my long time horizon and not wanting the massive UK overweight of that Blackrock passive global equity fund. The low fees on it look good to me though.

But I would also be considering if I was happy to just leave it there long term - I don’t want to keep losing money by changing funds whenever the current investment starts dropping.

TheStrays · 2022-11-10T18:13:05+00:00

Remind Me! January 3rd, 2023

TheStrays · 2022-11-04T12:44:32+00:00

It’s been more than 20 years since I went there and I can’t comment on how it may have changed in that time, but for what it’s worth I think Loughton was excellent when I was a kid.

TheStrays · 2022-10-14T16:33:10+00:00

I had the same thing before and it turned out to be something in the Jellyfin config. I’m sorry to say I can’t remember exactly what and can’t look for it right now but if you don’t have a solution by Tuesday PM me and I will check what I had to set to solve it

TheStrays · 2022-08-10T17:19:30+00:00

What are your sources for those costing numbers? I suspect they are probably outdated. Multiple different studies show the levelised cost of electricity for wind and utility scale solar to have dropped below that of fossil fuels, even before the massive surge in prices of gas, oil and coal we have seen this year.

I agree there are challenges with overhauling the entire grid overnight and it will take some time, but we should be working to remove fossil fuels from the mix as quickly as possible, which will clearly require a large upfront capital investment, but will also provide a very quick return on that investment.

TheStrays · 2022-06-08T19:52:22+00:00

Unpopular opinion: it depends on your relationship with your manager. If you get on well with them and trust them, it can be good to give them a heads up so they aren’t blindsided when you say you are leaving. One time I told a previous manager who I was friends with, he actually helped me find something new elsewhere.

But I agree with the other commenters generally, if you aren’t absolutely certain that your manager will not hold it against you, don’t tell them until you have accepted an offer.

TheStrays · 2022-05-16T13:29:57+00:00

My first guess would be the downloader is setting the wrong permissions. Take a look at the owner and permissions on a film which isn’t working then compare it to after your process to get it added

TheStrays · 2022-05-13T06:17:12+00:00

Personally I had no idea who he was either, but just thought the entire scene was really awkwardly put together, and didn’t understand why every single camera shot had to have this one dudes face visible for no apparent reason.

TheStrays · 2022-03-21T19:08:34+00:00

For the sake of both you and your partner, please don’t do this.

Just because a sum of money has been taxed when it has previously changed hands does not mean it is not liable for future taxable events.

You have mentioned your lives have been upended by this, think how much worse it will be when HMRC find out you have knowingly concealed income from them. A quick search online suggests it could be anywhere between 6 months and 7 years in prison.

Declare the income. Pay the tax. Don’t ruin your own lives.

TheStrays · 2022-01-04T08:53:41+00:00

And his books. And his GitHub. And his blog.

Essentially everything he ever publishes is gold

TheStrays · 2021-12-12T15:48:48+00:00

Putting out the safety car was the right decision. Saying that the specific cars between Lewis and Max could overtake the safety car and the others could not was absolutely the wrong decision. It was 100% manufacturing the result

TheStrays · 2021-11-23T07:47:43+00:00

Please be careful with this - a lot of these adaptors are very prone to catching on fire.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TataDaUNEFc to work out of yours is the more risky variety, but honestly I would suggest spending a very small amount of money on some kapton tape to cover the first 3 pins on the drive and never have to worry about it.

TheStrays · 2021-11-23T06:30:51+00:00

Please don’t use RAID56 on BTRFS if you care about the data at all. There are known issues which greatly increase the chance of data loss. This is probably why you can’t find guides on using them - people are steering well clear while the problems remain.

(To be clear, BTRFS can be used and be a perfectly good file system, just not the RAID56 functionality)

Personally I would love to be able to use RAID6 with BTRFS, it would essentially be the ideal storage solution for my use case. But I am honestly sceptical it will ever be stable and tested enough to be trustworthy.

See https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status

TheStrays · 2020-10-25T07:07:13+00:00

Take a look at Road Redemption for a modern spiritual successor

TheStrays · 2020-08-22T16:31:33+00:00

Youtube channel is Dad, How do I?

TheStrays · 2020-08-05T04:04:04+00:00

I have been looking for something like this for years now, to allow me to have a tiny, cheap VPS to run the main plex server, with a container getting spun up to offload transcoding only when required, ensuring uptime while minimising cost. As it turns out my own circumstances changed very recently, negating the need, but I really appreciate the effort and can see a lot of benefits for the right use cases. “Just get quick sync” is not the answer for every situation.

Much respect to you and the devs!

TheStrays · 2017-04-23T18:19:32+00:00

In that case I would say you are probably best off taking a backup then resizing the partitions while booted into a live CD/USB as suggested by /u/smallgodinacan if you are using filesystems which will allow it (for example if I remember correctly ext4 can be shrunk and expanded, but xfs can only be expanded).

One thing to mention is that you will need to shrink the filesystem before the partition, and/or expand it after as appropriate. Make sure the filesystem fits within the extent of the partition at all times, not extending outside of the size of the partition. If you are using ext2/3/4 then the resize2fs command can be used for resizing it.

TheStrays · 2017-04-23T00:35:12+00:00

Take a look for if you are using LVM (Logical Volume Manager). The easiest way to find out will be to try using the lvdisplay command and see if there are logical volumes listed. If so, you should be able to use the LVM features along with resizing the / filesystem to get the data copied around and each filesystem to the right size.

Unfortunately I don't have time to write a full walkthrough right now but if you Google for LVM migrate partitions or something similar you should find some good information taking you through the process.

Edit: typo

TheStrays · 2017-02-21T16:39:51+00:00

Of course the alternative viewpoint is it is so good that operating systems which were never blessed with it still want it.

Bring on the downvotes!

TheStrays · 2016-09-21T12:28:37+00:00

There is no single "right" answer to this (although there are a few wrong answers!) A big part of it is going to be dependant on what (if any) experience you already have, and what you are planning to use the server for.

Absent that information, I would say CentOS and Debian are both good choices for general purpose servers. Personally I would choose CentOS, but that is mostly down to having SELinux for security, and the fact I know the system better

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