January 5, 2018
Children at ‘significant’ social media risk
Researchers Discover Two Major Flaws in the World’s Computers
January 5, 2018
Enterprise IoT threatens to undermine cloud and IT security
January 5, 2018
Meltdown and Spectre CPU Vulnerabilities: What You Need to Know
The first few days of 2018 have been filled with anxious discussions concerning a widespread and wide-ranging vulnerability in the architecture of processors based on Intel’s Core architecture used in PCs for many years, and also affecting ARM processors commonly used in tablets and smartphones. The post Meltdown and Spectre CPU Vulnerabilities: What You Need […]
January 5, 2018
The Cyber News Rundown brings you the latest happenings in cyber news weekly. Who am I? I’m Connor Madsen, a Webroot Threat Research Analyst with a passion for all things security. Any questions? Just ask. Researchers Find Major Security Flaws in Modern Processors Newly discovered bugs, Meltdown and Spectre, exploit critical flaws in the architecture […]
January 5, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor, which could result in denial of service, information leaks, privilege escalation or the execution of arbitrary code.
January 5, 2018
It can be daunting to step into the often unfamiliar world of security, where you can at times be inundated with technical jargon (and where you face real consequences for making the wrong decision). Employing an MSP or MSSP is oftentimes in best interest of small and medium businesses (SMBs). In a study performed by […]
January 5, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Intel processors, enabling an attacker controlling an unprivileged process to read memory from arbitrary addresses, including from the kernel and all other processes running on the system.
January 4, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessordesigns have implemented speculative execution of instructions (a commonlyused performance optimization). There are three primary variants of theissue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be exploited.Variant CVE-2017-5715 triggers the speculative execution by utilizingbranch target injection. It relies on the presence of […]
January 4, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for microcode_ctl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Advanced Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
January 4, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0023
January 4, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0029
January 4, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0030
January 4, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0008
January 4, 2018
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a local information-disclosure vulnerability; fixes are available.
January 4, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0013
January 4, 2018
F**CKWIT – the video!
January 4, 2018
Top 7 Cyber Forensic Tools
January 4, 2018
ESET Research: Wauchos now headed for extinction?
As Wauchos was sold on underground forums, there were various monetization schemes. One of them was to use the form grabber plugin to steal passwords for online accounts. The post ESET Research: Wauchos now headed for extinction? appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
January 4, 2018
Social media namer and shamer charged
January 4, 2018
New Android Malware Disguised as Uber App
January 4, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has 13 fixes is An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has 13 fixes is An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has 13 fixes is now available. now available.
January 4, 2018
Is your Spotify password up to scratch?
January 4, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 17 vulnerabilities and has 13 fixes An update that solves 17 vulnerabilities and has 13 fixes An update that solves 17 vulnerabilities and has 13 fixes is now available. is now available.
January 4, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has 26 fixes is An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has 26 fixes is An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has 26 fixes is now available. now available.
January 4, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0014
January 4, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0012
January 4, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0007
January 4, 2018
Spectre? Meltdown? F*CKWIT? Calm down and make yourself some tea
January 4, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that there were two vulnerabilities in the imagemagick image manipulation program: CVE-2017-1000445: A null pointer dereference in the MagickCore
January 4, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
January 4, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Telco Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
January 4, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for kernel-rt 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
January 4, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for linux-firmware 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,
January 4, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for linux-firmware is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
January 4, 2018
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.
January 4, 2018
Apple macOS so secure some apps can’t be easily deleted
January 3, 2018
Today’s CPU vulnerability: what you need to know
January 3, 2018
Intel In Security Hot Seat Over Reported CPU Design Flaw
January 3, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream announcement: Welcome to **phpMyAdmin 4.7.7**, a regular maintenance release containing bug fixes and a security fix. The security vulnerability is a XSRF/CSRF flaw; you can read more at https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2017-9/ As a result of this, we recommend all users upgrade immediately. A CVE-ID has been requested but not yet
January 3, 2018
The F*CKWIT Intel chip flaw. Ready yourself for patches
January 3, 2018
Ad scripts track users via browser password managers
January 3, 2018
Your Nigerian Prince is a 67 year old from Louisiana
January 3, 2018
Teen girl facing up to 10 years for sending nude selfie
January 3, 2018
Sensor data can be used to guess your PIN, unlock your phone
January 3, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Jason Crain discovered a overflow vulnerability in the poppler PDF rendering library. For Debian 7 “Wheezy”, this issue has been fixed in poppler version
January 3, 2018
Opera browser updated to stop crypto-currency mining
January 3, 2018
Ransomware to hit cloud computing in 2018, predicts MIT
January 3, 2018
Driving Open Standards in a Fragmented Networking Landscape
January 3, 2018
Now is the best time to craft your breach response
Taking time to think logically and deliberately about your assets can help you determine what needs to be secured. Preparing for the worst can help you see the best course of action to prevent those emergencies in the present. The post Now is the best time to craft your breach response appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
January 3, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for eap7-jboss-ec2-eap is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
January 3, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 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,
January 3, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 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,
January 3, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
January 3, 2018
Brazil says it has bagged Royal Navy flagship HMS Ocean for £84m
January 3, 2018
Code for Satori malware posted on Pastebin
January 2, 2018
MacOS LPE Exploit Gives Attackers Root Access
January 2, 2018
VMware Issues 3 Critical Patches for vSphere Data Protection
January 2, 2018
The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation patches
January 2, 2018
Windows Hello face recognition spoofed with photographs
January 2, 2018
Forever 21 Says PoS Systems Exposed Customer Data for 8 Months
January 2, 2018
A desperate YouTube moderator scam spam
January 2, 2018
IP address errors lead to wrongful arrests
January 2, 2018
Iranians resist internet censorship amid deadly street protests
January 2, 2018
15-year-old Unpatched Root Access Bug found in Apple’s macOS
January 2, 2018
Tuesday review – the hot 8 stories of the week
January 2, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that wireshark, a network protocol analyzer, contained several vulnerabilities in the dissectors for CIP Safety, IWARP_MPA, NetBIOS, Profinet I/O and AMQP, which result in denial of dervice or the
January 1, 2018
Smartphone sensors can leak the four-digit PIN code to hackers
January 1, 2018
Reddit user leaks alleged Game of Thrones Season 8 script pages
January 1, 2018
2017’s Top hacks and data breaches
January 1, 2018