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Data Theft Repackaged: A Case Study in Malicious Wrapper Packages on npm
The Socket Research Team breaks down a malicious wrapper package that uses obfuscation to harvest credentials and exfiltrate sensitive data.
= YOB
An online backup system for MySQL and PostgreSQL, using GnuPG for encryption and AWS S3 for storage.
YOB is pluggable, so it's easy to make different database, encryption and storage engines.
== Install
You'll need a few libraries installed.
aptitude install libgpgme11-dev libsqlite3-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libopenssl-ruby1.8
Install yob from rubygems:
gem install yob
Then:
useradd --home-dir /var/lib/yob --create-home yob
If you're using MySQL, create ~yob/.my.cnf with mysql username and password and
GRANT select,reload,super,replication client ON . TO yob@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'somepassword'
== Licence
Licenced under the MIT licence. Copyright 2011-2012 YouDo Limited.
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We found that yob demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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