Mastodawn

Worse still, I have heard that Chinese pandas are at practice falling out of trees. You just have to go onto YouTube or similar and there’s lots of seemingly funny videos of them doing this.

In reality they’re not as dumb as they look and they have been inspired by the Australian drop bear. Imagine one tonne of panda landing on from a height of ten or so metres! 😩😱😱

So far the Chinese ambassador has been too polite to say anything to us about it but it looks like we won’t be getting any more pandas from China in the near future.

#panda #DropBear #China

Dr Micha Campbell Apr 17

My favourite Australian character trait is the willingness to jump in on a lie in order to trick someone (in good fun).

This is best shown by dropbears*, where any Aussie will happily join in on sharing how terrifying they are, how weird it is that no one outside Aus knows about them, the importance of eating vegemite as a deterrent, etc.

I love that my MPIC friends have gotten fully on board with this, happily rabbiting on about dropbears and their risks. It warms my heart and makes me feel like home!

* this is not to imply that dropbears are not real. Of course they are.

#DropBear #migrantLife #Australia

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Nico Apr 5

Bonus: I can wake up the desktop through Home Assistant.

And with VPN through Wireguard I then have access to my desktop system, its files and services that I need in rare cases.

I used this article
https://www.cyberciti.biz/security/how-to-unlock-luks-using-dropbear-ssh-keys-remotely-in-linux/ from [email protected] . Thank you.

2/n

#homeassistant #cryptsetup #dropbear #ubuntu

How to unlock LUKS using Dropbear SSH keys remotely in Linux - nixCraft

Explains how to unlock LUKS encrypted disk using Dropbear SSH keys remotely in Linux when you don't have access to the KVM console.

nixCraft

Nico Apr 5

Today's desktop computer challenge: For the case I need access to my home desktop from remote, I trigger boot through wake on LAN and then remotely unlock the encrypted hard disks through SSH.

The challenge: Two encrypted hard disks. Solution: For the second hard drive add a key file located on the first hard disk as additional slot through cryptsetup, update the configuration in `/etc/crypttab`. Done.

1/n

#ubuntu #dropbear #cryptsetup #wol

shaun Dec 30

TIL if you Google for “drop bear” there’s a little #EasterEgg

#dropbear #australia

Marcel SIneM(S)US Dec 28

#SSH-Server #Dropbear erlaubt Rechteausweitung | Security https://www.heise.de/news/SSH-Server-Dropbear-erlaubt-Rechteausweitung-11119207.html #Patchday #OpenWRT

SSH-Server Dropbear erlaubt Rechteausweitung

Der schlanke SSH-Server Dropbear stopft mit einer aktualisierten Version unter anderem eine Rechteausweitungslücke.

heise online

CyberVeille.ch Dec 22

📢 CVE-2025-14282 : élévation de privilèges dans Dropbear via redirections de sockets UNIX
📝 Source : oss-sec (mailing list).
📖 cyberveille : https://cyberveille.ch/posts/2025-12-21-cve-2025-14282-elevation-de-privileges-dans-dropbear-via-redirections-de-sockets-unix/
🌐 source : https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2025/q4/281
#CVE_2025_14282 #Dropbear #Cyberveille

CVE-2025-14282 : élévation de privilèges dans Dropbear via redirections de sockets UNIX

Source : oss-sec (mailing list). Dans un post signé par “turistu” le 16 décembre 2025, un rapport technique décrit CVE-2025-14282 affectant le serveur SSH Dropbear en mode multi-utilisateur. • Problème principal : Dropbear exécute les redirections de sockets (TCP/UNIX) en tant que root durant l’authentification et avant le spawn du shell, ne basculant de manière permanente vers l’utilisateur connecté qu’ensuite. Avec l’ajout récent du forwarding vers des sockets de domaine UNIX (commit 1d5f63c), un utilisateur SSH authentifié peut se connecter à n’importe quel socket UNIX avec les identifiants root, contournant les permissions du système de fichiers et les contrôles SO_PEERCRED / SO_PASSCRED.

CyberVeille

John

Dec 20

#Scottish #reporter introduced to a #DropBear (old #video)

https://youtu.be/KCGUNpzjD6M?si=LMrLioqkbJ6gMCnj

Scottish reporter tricked into wearing protective gear for 'drop bears' | South Australia | 7NEWS

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Klaus Umbach Dec 19

As most e.g. #OpenWRT devices use #dropbear just for root anyway and not for other users, this should not be critical issue for most installations in the real world, right? Or do I miss something?

https://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/dropbear/2025q4/002390.html

Dropbear 2025.89 and security fix

QuirkyFilms Nov 10, 2025

#Dropbear (Date TBC) 🐨
A group of US tourists on a cheap Aussie outback tour discover the scam's fake dropbear attack has led them into the lair of a real, flesh-hungry koala king and his rabid army.
#CreatureFeature #FilmsWithBite #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬