Alice Afolabi

Cloud Security | DevOps Engineer | Computer Science | Cybersecurity | FashionGirl..

[Alice Afolabi @TechWithAlice_]

Day 6 of becoming a Cloud Security/DevOps Engineer .

Today’s focus is Subnetting and below are the things I learnt ..👇👇👇👇

@ireteeh

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@OnijeC @CiscoNetAcad 👏 👏👏👏👏👏

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@igboonaija3 @ireteeh Check her pinned post.. so many beginners friendly materials are there … And follow her for cybersecurity updates …

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Very boring programming language … Small yansh dey shake 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐

[djcows @djcows]

holy shit they found RCE vulnerabilities in COBOL - please update all of your COBOL applications immediately

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@owenthcarey

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@DevMuzzammil Looks like the list is endless 😩😩😩😩

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Blue Team and overtime this period 😩😩😩😩

[Cyber Security News @The_Cyber_News]

‼️ Fortinet Urges Patching Critical Flaws Affecting FortiOS, FortiManager, & FortiAnalyzer

Details: https://t.co/ywwcLsTbdy

Fortinet has urged customers to prioritize security updates for FortiOS, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer scheduled for October 22, 2026. The coordinated release addresses critical and high-severity vulnerabilities, including flaws found through AI-assisted security testing.

The company said customers should address internet-facing devices first. The update follows security releases for FortiMail and FortiAuthenticator, extending the patching effort across several key products.

Fortinet said its testing program uses advanced AI models to examine code paths, protocol handling, and configuration logic.

#cybersecuritynews

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Engineers will really engineer this period ..

[The Hacker News @TheHackersNews]

🚨 CRITICAL: GitLab flaw (CVSS 10.0) affects 12 years of releases.

CVE-2026-110264 could allow unauthenticated remote code execution on self-managed servers.

Read - https://t.co/frrfCwYlgp

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@segoslavia

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@ireteeh Emphasis on positions are openly advertised and accessible to qualified, competent professionals through a transparent, merit-based recruitment process… very unserious sets of people ..

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@IT_unhinged Inherited vulnerabilities 😳😳😳😳

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PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH
This is such a funny read 😂😂

[Derek Devicemanager @IT_unhinged]

Security called me at 6:12 AM today.

"Patch every PHP server immediately."

I asked what happened.

"Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required."

Cool.

How many PHP servers do we have?

According to inventory: 12

According to reality:

Nobody knows.

We found one running WordPress.

Three running old internal tools.

One under someone's desk.

Two inside vendor appliances.

A forgotten employee directory from 2016.

And a server named:

PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH

Naturally, that one runs payroll exports.

Then we found a PHP 5.6 box.

I asked who owned it.

The documentation said:

BRIAN.

Brian left in 2019.

We called Brian.

He said:

"Oh wow, that's still running?"

Excellent.

By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call.

CEO:

"Can hackers actually get in?"

Security:

"Potentially yes."

CEO:

"Without a password?"

Security:

"Yes."

CEO:

"Then why do WE need passwords?"

Not the lesson.

Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue.

Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers.

Finance asked for a cost comparison.

At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline.

Marketing refused.

"Our campaign is live."

So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover.

We finally patched everything we could find.

Then our scanner discovered another PHP server.

Hostname:

TEMP-PHP-2014

Uptime:

4,512 days.

Nobody knows what it does.

Nobody owns it.

Nobody can shut it down.

But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels.

Security has classified it as critical infrastructure.

It is running PHP 5.4.

The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees.

The emergency patch took four hours.

Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven.

The internet isn't held together with code.

It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.

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@claudeai I got to know about this today though I only gave read access…

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@da_tesleem Cold world 😩😩😩😩

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@BratDotAI Mentally Disorganized 😩😩

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@uday_devops With Stock and French background …some Job descriptions are just somehow 🧐🧐🧐

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History

[Lars Jansen @oldstackjournal]

You get SSH access to a Linux server you've never seen before. No documentation. No idea what's running on it.

What's the first thing you check?

Not looking for the 'correct' answer. I'm interested in the order other people poke around.

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📌📌📌📌📌📌

[Dr Iretioluwa Akerele @ireteeh]

Your choice of partner is one of the most important decisions you will ever make. Choose someone who respects you, supports your dreams and brings peace and stability into your life ✨

When you’re in a healthy relationship, you are empowered to become the best version of yourself. That positive energy would definitely flow into every other area of your life, allowing you to grow and flourish. Never underestimate the power of having the right person by your side ❤️

[Alice Afolabi @TechWithAlice_]

Don’t just automate the chaos. Fix it first.

[Alice Afolabi @TechWithAlice_]

Tools won’t fix a broken culture and scaling a broken system only scales the problems. As a DevOps engineer, automation and infrastructure are only part of the job. You also need to address poor processes,weak collaboration and the root causes of failure.

[Alice Afolabi @TechWithAlice_]

Tools won’t fix a broken culture and scaling a broken system only scales the problems. As a DevOps engineer, automation and infrastructure are only part of the job. You also need to address poor processes,weak collaboration and the root causes of failure.

[Alice Afolabi @TechWithAlice_]

Today is going to be a great day 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻