Over 660,000 exposed Rsync servers are potentially vulnerable to six new vulnerabilities, including a critical-severity heap-buffer overflow flaw that allows remote code execution on servers. Rsync is ...

Rsync, a versatile file-synchronizing tool, contains six vulnerabilities present within versions 3.3.0 and below. Rsync can be used to sync files between remote and local computers, as well as storage ...

Security researchers discovered vulnerabilities in the open source software rsync, which can be used to synchronize or even just copy files very efficiently. The rsync tool for file synchronization, ...

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 ...

Ok, so I'm considering ways to backup a remote office to my home DNS-321, I have my dynamic dns and can accomplish this through the inbuilt ftp server using cobian backup. It seems that rsync would be ...

I am looking to have a Mac function as an rsync server. The problem is getting rsync to be running when a remote host tries to connect.<BR><BR>It does not appear that either inetd or xinetd run by ...

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 ...

Linux comes with a ton of tools for administrative tasks, including backing up over a network. Thanks to rsync and ssh, this is far easier to do than you might think. If your business uses Linux for ...

EMS computers in Guilford County, NC were exposed for an unknown length of time, because the server managing system updates was publicly available on the internet. The problem was discovered earlier ...

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 ...