Security Advisory / Vulns / 0day

[MYstIC G]

It depends tho, innit - Ideally yes, your clients should be able to digest x265/x264 and mkv container, and avoid having to transcode alltogether. But it's not like that in most cases - you have a mix of clients (TV, tablet, phone, etc), some capable enough to direct play, some not.

Therefor, transcoding capability on the NAS / media server side should exist.

Plus, media comes in wildly different combos of resolution, bitrate, codec, container - you'd be hard pressed to be in a situation where your clients can seamlessly direct play everything you throw at them.

Additionally, if you stream content to friends / relatives, it gets even more complicated.

The basic and simple transcoding capability would be with a QSV Intel cpu, not an option in my case, as I have old Xeon cpu in my nas - so I just threw in a dedicated nvidia gpu (P400 originally, now P2000), which does the job with ease. Not to mention re-encoding takes a _lot_ of time and power consumption.

Don't agree to be honest, will say I meant encode not re-encode, better to pick right first

 

[Embattle]

In my system I just pick the most supported format, probably except a few 4k MKV's it works on everything in the house.

 

[old.Osy]

Intel discloses 34 security holes in firmware and software — Thunderbolt, XTU, chipset drivers, and more

All but one have been patched.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[Deebs]

Fucking hell. Does management still ignore their security teams?

 

[old.Osy]

Power Toys: Conflict Zone Edition.

 

[old.Osy]

Epic Games Allegedly Hacked - Targeted for Ransomware

Unconfirmed reports suggest that Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite, may be the target of a ransomware attack by a relatively unknown hacker group called Mogilvich.

www.guru3d.com

 

[old.Osy]

oss-security - backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise

And context: Very annoying - the apparent author of the backdoor was in communication with me... | Hacker News

 

[Deebs]

oss-security - backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise

And context: Very annoying - the apparent author of the backdoor was in communication with me... | Hacker News

Thank fuck I still use telnet so not impacted by this

 

[old.Osy]

Over 92,000 exposed D-Link NAS devices have a backdoor account

A threat researcher has disclosed a new arbitrary command injection and hardcoded backdoor flaw in multiple end-of-life D-Link Network Attached Storage (NAS) device models.

www.bleepingcomputer.com