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Monthly Archives: November 2017

Protecting your data from ransomware
Google Chrome vows to carpet bomb meddling Windows antivirus tools

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Crypto-cash souk Coinbase forced to rat out its high rollers to probing US taxmen
How to Safely Store Cryptocurrency – Review of 5 Safest Bitcoin Wallets
Cisco Patches Critical Playback Bugs in WebEx Players
Google sued over iPhone ‘Safari Workaround’ data snooping
RAT Distributed Via Google Drive Targets East Asia
Lauri Love extradition appeal judges reserve decision
Apple’s “blank root password” fix needs a fix of its own – here it is
Hackers Breach GitHub Repository for Bitcoin Gold Windows Wallet
Mr. Robot eps3.7_dont-delete-me.ko – the security review
Uber hack: EU data protection bods launch taskforce
Firefox to warn users when visiting breached websites

The extension currently includes an input field that users can use to subscribe an email address in order to receive an alert when they may be affected by a future breach. The post Firefox to warn users when visiting breached websites appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

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Epic Games sues 14-year-old cheater, mother launches rhetorical firestorm
Hey girl, what’s that behind your Windows task bar? Looks like a hidden crypto-miner…
Shipping giant refuses to pay hackers ransom after data stolen

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Wondering why your internal .dev web app has stopped working?

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Tech Talk: Uber hack, Google tracks, AWS packs (in China) … and Firefox is back
Canadian hacker behind 500M Yahoo hack reveals Russian connection​
As Apple fixes macOS root password hole, here’s what went wrong
Apple Announces Emergency Patch to Fix High Sierra Login Bug

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

Apple closes that big root hole – “Install this update as soon as possible”

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Apple fixes root password bug: ‘Install this update as soon as possible’
Radio Shack robbery to have huge consequences for location privacy
Unprotected S3 Cloud Bucket Exposed 100GB of Classified NSA Data
US indicts three Chinese nationals for alleged cyberattacks
ESET malware researchers awarded prize in open-source memory forensics competition

The Volatility Foundation, the non-profit organization behind the Volatility Framework, sponsors the yearly Volatility Plugin Contest to acknowledge the best forensic tools built on the Volatility platform. The post ESET malware researchers awarded prize in open-source memory forensics competition appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

macOS High Sierra bug lets anyone unlock Mac without password
Uber says 2.7 MEEELLION(ish) UK users affected by hack
Hacked Brit shipping giant Clarksons: A person may release some of our data today

LinuxSecurity.com: Two vulnerabilities were discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library. CVE-2017-8816

Google AI lets phone owners know about shoulder surfers
Android spyware found secretly recording WhatsApp, Viber, and Skype chats
Smashing Security podcast #054: A great big fat macOS bug
Keyless convenience or security risk? Car theft in action

Exactly how does the attack work and is it expensive to create? The attack, while seeming to be technology voodoo, is actually rather simple. It requires a transmitting relay near the key and a second relay near the car to receive the relayed signals and mimic the key. The post Keyless convenience or security risk? […]

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 7.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for samba4 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability

Accused hacker Lauri Love’s extradition appeal begins

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for tcmu-runner is now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.3.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

Canadian! fella! admits! hacking! Gmail! inboxes! amid! Yahoo! megahack!
Critical Apple Login Bug Puts macOS High Sierra Systems at Risk
Uber hack coverup: Your next US state lawsuit arrives in four minutes
Huge MacOS bug lets anyone login as root without a password: what you need to know

LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2017-15369 CVE-2017-15587 CVE-2017-9216 CVE-2017-14685 CVE-2017-14686 CVE-2017-14687

LinuxSecurity.com: Harden the Slurm build and allows it to operate in full relro with GOT sections of the ELF binaries marked read-only.

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2017-12629

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LinuxSecurity.com: rebase to version 1.2.2, solves CVE-2017-16227, solves error produced by install script

Apple Macs have gaping root hole – here’s a superquick way to check and fix it

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for apr is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

Leaky AWS Storage Bucket Spills Military Secrets, Again
Gone in Seconds: Hackers Steal Mercedes Car without Key

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for procmail is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

US intelligence blabs classified Linux VM to world via leaky S3 silo

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Pro tip: You can log into macOS High Sierra as root with no password
Google Detects and Boots Tizi Spyware Off Google Play
Hackers are digging into Microsoft Word flaw that existed for last 17 year
Researcher: DJI RCE-holes offered me $500 after I found Heartbleed etc on its servers
Most Fancy Bear hacking targets weren’t warned by FBI
Mr. Robot: Now we know where Tyrell was hiding

Since nothing is what is seems, it’s hard to be sure who was really behind the attacks shown in the series. The world still believes fsociety was responsible (and they themselves do too, to an extent), but the truth is that there is a group in the shadows that is pulling all the strings. The […]

Age verification legislation will lead to porn habit database
Ransomware Attack Involving Scarab Malware Sends Over 12M Emails in 6 Hours
Involved in a data breach? Firefox to test alerts in the browser
Boffins craft perfect ‘head generator’ to beat facial recognition

LinuxSecurity.com: New samba packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues.

Surprise: Android apps are riddled with trackers
Open source nameserver used by millions needs patching
Chinese IT security bods accused of siphoning US GPS, biz blueprints
Uber, quit shoveling money into the fire for one second and explain that hack – US senators

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.

Bulletproof Coffee lacks bulletproof security: Nerd brain juice biz hacked, cards gulped
Deleting anyone’s Facebook photo, a bug that earned researcher $10,000
That $10,000 Facebook bug: Photos shafted, addicts screwed by polls
The end of net neutrality draws near
Barracuda gobbled up by private equity sharks
Imgur Confirms 2014 Breach of 1.7 Million User Accounts

LinuxSecurity.com: Berkeley DB could be made to expose sensitive information.

LinuxSecurity.com: Berkeley DB could be made to expose sensitive information.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

LinuxSecurity.com: The system could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.