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Monthly Archives: April 2018

Intel admits a load of its CPUs have Spectre v2 flaw that can’t be fixed

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Hold the phone: Mystery fake cell towers spotted slurping comms around Washington DC

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJDK, an implementation of the Oracle Java platform, resulting in denial of service, unauthorized access, sandbox bypass or HTTP header injection.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available.

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Furious gunwoman opens fire at YouTube HQ, three people shot

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

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

Gay dating app Grindr shared user HIV & location data with third-parties
Do(ug)h! Half-baked security at Panera Bread spills customer data
Mad March Meltdown! Microsoft’s patch for a patch for a patch may need another patch

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 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,

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 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,

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

How to delete your Facebook data in bulk with this Chrome extension

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Panera Bread customer records exposed via leaky database – dough!
Badmins: Magento shops brute-forced to scrape card deets and install cryptominers
Google’s April Android Security Bulletin Warns of 9 Critical Bugs
Panera Bread Slammed After Keeping Massive Data Leak Quiet For Eight Months
New Android Malware Stealing Data from Popular Messenger Apps
5 million credit cards exposed in Saks and Lord & Taylor data breach
Lazarus KillDisks Central American casino

The Lazarus Group gained notoriety especially after cyber-sabotage against Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014. Fast forward to late 2017 and the group continues to deploy its malicious tools, including disk-wiping malware known as KillDisk, to attack a number of targets. The post Lazarus KillDisks Central American casino appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Panera Bread’s half-baked security
YouTube prankster sued by In-N-Out Burger
One solution to wreck privacy-hating websites: Flood them with bogus info using browser tools

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that there was a local privilege escalation vulnerability in beep, an “advanced PC speaker beeper”. For Debian 7 “Wheezy”, this issue has been fixed in beep version

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

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

Streaming site 123movies has been shut down; here are its alternatives
Block blocked: Google to banish cryptominers from Chrome Web Store

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities were found in the rubygems package management framework, embedded in JRuby, a pure-Java implementation of the Ruby programming language.

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that a race condition in beep (if configured as setuid via debconf) allows local privilege escalation. For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed

U.S. DoD Hopes To Stamp Out Threats With Bug Bounty Program

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Hacks Fifth Avenue: Crooks slurp bank cards from luxury chain Saks

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 8.

Report Shows Ransomware is the New Normal
Google Shuts Down URL Shortening Service & Acquires GIF Search Platform
Cloudflare Launches Publicly DNS-Over-HTTPS Service
Credit Card Data Swiped From 5M Saks, Lord & Taylor Customers
Phishing scam: Italian football club tricked into sending out €2m to crooks
Lord & Taylor & Saks customers payment cards stolen, sold on Dark Web

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in Dovecot.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Irssi, a terminal-based IRC client which can result in denial of service. For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities were found in rubygems, a package management framework for Ruby. CVE-2018-1000075

LinuxSecurity.com: James Davis discovered two issues in Django, a high-level Python web development framework, that can lead to a denial-of-service attack. An attacker with control on the input of the django.utils.html.urlize() function or django.utils.text.Truncator’s chars() and words() methods

Purism Librem 13: A Security-Focused Powerhouse of a Linux Laptop
How to configure multiple websites with Apache web server

LinuxSecurity.com: Two security vulnerabilities were discovered in the Z shell. CVE-2018-1071 Stack-based buffer overflow in the exec.c:hashcmd() function.

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