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Existing LUKS Partition and New Primary Boot Drive on Ubuntu 14.04

Yesterday I attempted to upgrade from Ubuntu 13.10 to 14.04 on my office system. It failed. Everything appeared to go smoothly, but after rebooting, I got a black screen. No grub menu, no grub failure menu. I attempted to reinstall grub from a live image, but that failed too. I had an extra Intel 160GB SSD so I decided to a fresh install. Its been over a year since I did a clean install so I had a lot of cruft installed, so a clean install would take care of that, and would probably take less time than repairing the install.

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Cisco/Linksys ATA Exploit?

So I’ve encountered a strange exploit being attempted against the VoIP system I maintain.  Its not actually against the softswitch, though, but rather against the end customer’s ATA.  We first saw this particular exploit three or four months ago, and its a rather strange, but at the same …

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