LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors and other implementation errors may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service.
May 11, 2018
Reading Time: ~2 min.Crypto Mining Makes the Jump to Excel With the recent Microsoft release supporting JavaScript within Excel, it was only a matter of time before the scripting service was manipulated to mine cryptocurrency. Mere hours after the release, the first proof of concept appeared, with easy-to-replicate steps to get CoinHive functioning. While this […]
May 11, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 8.
May 11, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Updated to latest upstream release (#1571443, #1573318, #1573319).
May 11, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Update to 1.10.1
May 11, 2018
security update
May 10, 2018
security update
May 10, 2018
PoS Malware ‘TreasureHunter’ Source Code Leaked
May 10, 2018
Reading Time: ~2 min.Fake tech support scams aren’t going anywhere. In fact, recent data shows this type of social engineering attack is on the rise—with phony tech support calls, emails, and pop-ups peddling the digital equivalent of snake oil to unsuspecting internet users around the world. While many people have grown wise enough to spot […]
May 10, 2018
One year later: EternalBlue exploit more popular now than during WannaCryptor outbreak
The infamous outbreak may no longer be causing mayhem worldwide but the threat that enabled it is still very much alive and posing a major threat to unpatched and unprotected systems The post One year later: EternalBlue exploit more popular now than during WannaCryptor outbreak appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
May 10, 2018
Grade hacking may cost high school its valedictorian
May 10, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: New wget packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue.
May 10, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues.
May 10, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1319
May 10, 2018
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.
May 10, 2018
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.
May 10, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1364
May 9, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: The package freetype2 before version 2.9.1-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.
May 9, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Regenerate autoconf files using current tools so proper build flags from redhat- rpm-config are used. This applies hardened LDFLAGS. No functional change intended.
May 9, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2018-1000156
May 9, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2017-6888.
May 9, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: ## 4.9.2 https://ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.9.2 ### Security Updates – Fixed XSS vulnerability in the Enhanced Image (image2) plugin reported by Kyaw Min Thein. – Issue summary: It was possible to execute XSS inside CKEditor using the tag and specially crafted HTML. Please note that the default presets (Basic/Standard/Full) do not include this plugin, so you are […]
May 9, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Dancer2 0.206000 addresses several potential security issues. There is a potential RCE with regards to Storable. Dancer2 adds session ID validation to the session engine so that session backends based on Storable can reject malformed session IDs that may lead to exploitation of the RCE. Parsing requests now uses HTTP::Entity::Parser which reduces the amount […]
May 9, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Knot Resolver 2.3.0 (2018-04-23) ——– – fix CVE-2018-1110: denial of service triggered by malformed DNS messages (!550, !558, security!2, security!4) – increase resilience against slow lorris attack (security!5) Bugfixes ——– – validation: fix SERVFAIL in case of CNAME to NXDOMAIN in a single zone (!538) – validation: fix SERVFAIL for
May 9, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: This release provides Perl 5.26.2 that fixes a heap buffer overflow in the pack() function and two overflows in regular expression engine.
May 9, 2018
security update
May 9, 2018
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.
May 9, 2018
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft ChakraCore is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
May 9, 2018
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft ChakraCore is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
May 9, 2018
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft .NET Framework Device Guard is prone to a local security-bypass vulnerability; fixes are available.
May 9, 2018
Type: Vulnerability. Multiple Microsoft Azure IoT SDKs are prone to a security vulnerability that may allow attackers to conduct spoofing attacks; fixes are available.
May 9, 2018
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a local security-bypass vulnerability; fixes are available.
May 9, 2018
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a local security-bypass vulnerability; fixes are available.
May 9, 2018
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a local security-bypass vulnerability; fixes are available.
May 9, 2018
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.
May 9, 2018
Inside fake Interac transfer and tax refund SMS phishing
It’s tax season in Canada and scammers are using fake tax refund forms to lure victims into supplying their personal information via phishing pages The post Inside fake Interac transfer and tax refund SMS phishing appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
May 9, 2018
Equifax Update Clarifies Breach Details to SEC
May 9, 2018
Mingis on Tech: Reflections on RSA 2018
May 9, 2018
Could this be the end of password re-use?
May 9, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: On May 8, fixes for CVE-2018-1087 and CVE-2018-8897 were released in linuxkernel version 4.4.0-124.148. These CVEs are both related to the way thatthe linux kernel handles certain interrupt and exception instructions. Ifan interrupt or exception instruction (INT3, SYSCALL, etc.) is immediatelypreceded by a MOV SS or POP SS instruction, the resulting interrupt will [More…]
May 9, 2018
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
May 9, 2018
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
May 9, 2018
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
May 9, 2018
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
May 9, 2018
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
May 9, 2018
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
May 9, 2018
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
May 9, 2018
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.
May 8, 2018
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.
May 8, 2018
Risk Level: Very Low.
May 8, 2018
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Worm.
May 8, 2018
FBI: Cyber-Fraud Losses Rise to Reach $1.4B
May 8, 2018