Mac OS High Sierra wont update firmware - ah, in my MacPro 5.1(mid 2010). Tell me there are the biggest problems! My video card is AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition(display port connect Apple Cinema Display), and have a some small problem. The video card has a small bug. Mac OS Sierra 10.12 boots Apple logo normal, up to half the line, then screen goes black, and then the Apple logo is show again, and progress is continue fine. If i updating firmware have i the biggest problem when updating Mac Pro 5.1(mid 2010) firmware?
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If there is an error, will my Mac Pro 5.1(2010) and die Mac Pro firmware!!! Can i return to old firmware? Thanks so much for help.Sorry my English. FWIW, I was getting the same error message through 5 iterationsof High Sierra betas and the GM when trying to install on one of myMacs and NO ONE had any clue or cared that it happened.Each time I sent multiple reports via the Feedback Assistantwith all the log files, but wonder whether that was just ablack hole.There were no solutions suggested. There were no workaroundssuggested. There were no troubleshooting steps suggested.Have not tried to install the released version on that machine yet,but will attempt today and see what happens.The released version did install on two of my Macs, so we will see.
Found this on macrumors.com with the same issue.Seems like it’s workif for me now. I’m in the middle of the install, and and I’ve gotten past the point where it would throw firmware issues.Folks, you can try this even without rescue mode in terminal: 'diskutil verifydisk disk0'. Should work with those Macs with just one SSD inside. If you've got a more complex machine, check the location of the EFI partition with 'diskutil list' first. Could be disk1 as well.It's going to check your disk, where the EFI partition lies. Takes a few seconds. Like noted, I had this issue, and it was a problem with that little partition that's needed for firmware update.
Hi,I had the same problem (at least: symptom) on a MacBookPro8,1. With a 'custom' SSD; but then my mini had updated without issuesWhat I had found as suggestions, but did not help:. verify / repair disk.
(Potentially from recovery mode). But wasn't broken. start installer from 'safe mode'.What I tried and worked (1 out of 1 time):I started the installer from an 'admin' enabled account. Worked.Beforehand it had failed 3 times from a 'non-admin' account. The final run started a helper before the actual installation (which took several reboots and a firmware upgrade, if I understand the progress bar looks correctly).Other proposals I had found:. Install on a new medium. (As this might fix the firmware during upgrade also for the existing installation.).
Reset PRAM/NVRAM.Hope this helps.BR/Philipp. I'll just add my own thoughts here:Tried absolutely everything other people suggested, except doing a clean install of High Sierra from a USB drive, because I don't have the time to copy 500GB of data from a mechanical HDD backup.I did however tried to update the firmware of my SSD which worked great but didn't solve the issue. And I had to do this via Bootcamp because Samsung and Apple are not friends it seems. Still I find it hilarious that I had to use a Microsoft product to try and fix an Apple product.Anyway, later I noticed something: the folder 'MacOS Install Data' is in the root of my SSD.
Could that be causing the issues with the HS install? I tried to remove it, but it's protected, did a sudo rm -rf on it and it did manage to delete everything except for 3 files. I will try and remove them via terminal on Recovery Mode, but since I have a Mac Pro 5,1 with non EFI GPU, this will have to wait for a day where I have nothing else to do but waste my time trying to find solutions to Apple incompetence.So yeah, anyone got a working solution for this issue? At least anyone has any idea exactly what 'firmware' is being verified? So far it's not the SSD firmware.
The hardware firmware is also the latest version so that's not the culprit either. Maybe the Firmware Installed package supplied with the current build of HS is corrupt?Apple should pay us all for doing their job at troubleshooting and fixing their mistakes! Apple Footer.This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.
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With the, botnets are back in a big way. In the early days of botnets, zombies (infected hosts) would report to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channels for CNC (command and control) instructions.
Modern botnets have evolved, but they continue to use the same concepts as their predecessors.The basics of botnets are simple. The first step is to find lots of machines that are vulnerable to attack. In the case of Mirai, IoT's devices with hardcoded or default credentials set. Next, the vulnerability is exploited. In some cases, this means installing a RAT (remote administration tool). Infected or vulnerable machines are then controlled by a bot herder with a CNC tool.
Often, botnets are custom-coded and the source is kept secret. The reason for this is the profit involved.
Botnets are used for DDoS, bitcoin mining, data theft, spam distribution, and ad fraud. Some bot herders even!In this article, we will be examining, 'a free software tool designed to test DDoS attacks against a target using 'Open Redirect' vectors on third party web applications like botnet.' I will be walking through the steps as if I were going to launch an attack on a host. This open-source botnet is easy to install and run, and it's capable of searching out vulnerable hosts, testing them, cataloging them, running DDoS attacks, and more.Don't Miss: Step 1: Get the SourceOur first step is to get the UFONet source, so open your favorite terminal emulator and clone the repo:. git clone. cd ufonet. Step 2: Configure Tor (Optional)If we were using UFONet to DDoS a target, we would set up and run:./ufonet -check-torDon't Miss:Since we are not actually going to be attacking any targets or exploiting any hosts other than those on our local network, we can skip Tor configuration.
Step 3: Find Vulnerable HostsNow we'll use the search function to find vulnerable hosts. UFONet uses only Bing by default to locate vulnerable hosts.
This can be changed with flags. I will be using all of the available engines built into UFOnet to search for a vulnerable host./ufonet -s 'proxy.php?url=' -saThis command tells UFOnet to search for sites containing 'proxy.php?url=', using all built-in search engines. Sites containing 'proxy.php?url=' may be vulnerable to open redirects. You can also load search strings from a text file with the command:./ufonet -sd 'botnet/dorks.txt'This command uses UFOnet's dorks.txt as a list of strings to search for potential open redirect vulnerabilities.
Step 4: TestingWe now have a large list of zombies available to us. Since the hosts provided by the community are not under my control, I cleared the community hosts that I downloaded from my bots list and set up a vulnerable page in a VM (virtual machine).
This page is a simple open redirect and belongs in the botnet/zombies.txt file.UFOnet stores data on vulnerable hosts in text format in the botnet folder. Each text file has a themed name, and represents a different form of open redirect.
Zombie: HTTP GET 'Open Redirect' bot. Droid: HTTP GET 'Open Redirect' bot with parameters. Alien: HTTP POST 'Open Redirect' bot. UCAV: These sites check whether the target of the DDoS is up. Dorks: A list of potentially vulnerable search stringsNext, I test that my VM is vulnerable to an open redirect./ufonet -t botnet/zombies.txt. Looks like it's working.
Step 5: Inspect Our TargetWe may want to inspect our target for large files. Luckily, UFONet has the functionality built in:./ufonet -i on larger files is not a necessary step, though it may eat more bandwidth from the target site wreaking a bit more havoc. Since my VM consists of two hosted pages, the default Apache page, and the vulnerable open redirect page, this command isn't going to discover anything major. Though, in some cases, you may discover large files. I inspected my vulnerable web server.
It looks like the largest file on my web server is 'ubuntu-logo.png'. It appears UFONet has followed an external link off my site though.
If I hadn't read through the information presented to me, I could have potentially attacked the wrong target! Tools can report the wrong information, so it's important to pay attention. Step 6: Launch an AttackLastly, I will launch:./ufonet -a -r 10 -b 'icons/ubuntu-logo.png'In this command we launch UFONet, and the -a flag specifies the target to attack.
The -r flag specifies the number of times each host should attack. The -b option selects where to make requests on the target.When we execute this command, UFONet will attack the target 10 times for each zombie. If you have a list of 100 zombies, it would launch 100 zombies times 10 rounds for a total of 1,000 requests to the target. Specifically, it's requesting the largest file on the site 'ubuntu-logo.png'. That number may seem small, but remember with a bit of web scraping and peer-to-peer sharing, it should be easy enough to launch a respectable DDoS attack.
In this case, I'm getting a target down message. Obviously, my target is still up.
Since I'm attacking a local VM from within my own home network, sites like that check whether a website is up, will detect it as down. Conclusion:UFONet is just one of many DDoS attack platforms. A search on GitHub or Google for botnets should turn up some interesting results. I would never run a botnet app without thoroughly reading through the source. Without an understanding of the code, it's quite possible that you could face criminal charges.
If that weren't enough, running unknown applications from known malicious developers can compromise your system—turning your machine into a zombie or worse. Depending on your location, simply testing for open redirect vulnerabilities in remote machines could be illegal. Follow Null Byte on or. Sign up for. Find all of our latest videos on ourCover image. You can search for dorks, it's built into UFOnet.
From the site:UFONet has some P2P options to share/keep 'zombies' with other 'motherships'. Setup web server with a folder 'ufonet', this folder should be:. located in /var/www/ufonet (default debian/ubuntu install). owned by the user running the blackhole. accessible with Start the blackhole with:./ufonet -blackhole (or python2 blackhole.py). Anyone wanting to connect to your server needs to set the -up-to/-down-fromto the ip address of your webserver.!WARNING: this ADVANCED function is NOT secure, proceed if you really want to.People share them p2p.
Sharing the list isn't illegal, though I would probably consider doing it on a VPS just for privacy reasons.