LinuxSecurity.com: Poppler before 0.70.0 has a NULL pointer dereference in _poppler_attachment_new when called from poppler_annot_file_attachment_get_attachment. (CVE-2018-19149) References:
December 31, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An issue was discovered in lxml before 4.2.5. lxml/html/clean.py in the lxml.html.clean module does not remove javascript: URLs that use escaping, allowing a remote attacker to conduct XSS attacks, as demonstrated by “j a v a s c r i p t:” in Internet Explorer (CVE-2018-19787).
December 31, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Possible denial of service vulnerability due to a missing check in Lib/wave.py to verify that at least one channel is provided (CVE-2017-18207). Python’s elementtree C accelerator failed to initialise Expat’s hash
December 31, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Graphicsmagick has been updated to fix several bugs and security issues. References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23157 – http://www.graphicsmagick.org/NEWS.html#november-17-2018
December 31, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: debian-security-support, the Debian security support coverage checker, has been updated in jessie. The jessie relevant changes are: * Mark jasperreports as end-of-life in Jessie.
December 31, 2018
Malware Attack Crippled Production of Major U.S. Newspapers
December 31, 2018
Ransomware vs. printing press? US newspapers face “foreign cyberattack”
Did malware disrupt newspaper deliveries in major US cities? Here’s what’s known about the incident so far and the leading suspect: Ryuk ransomware. Plus, advice on defending your organization against such attacks. The post Ransomware vs. printing press? US newspapers face “foreign cyberattack” appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
December 31, 2018
Cryptocurrency Wallet Hacks Spark Dustup
December 31, 2018
2018: Research highlights from ESET’s leading lights
As the curtain slowly falls on yet another eventful year in cybersecurity, let’s look back on some of the finest malware analysis by ESET researchers in 2018 The post 2018: Research highlights from ESET’s leading lights appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
December 31, 2018
Hackers pocketed $878,000 from cryptocurrency bug bounties in 2018
December 31, 2018
EU offers bounties to help find security flaws in open source tools
December 31, 2018
How to secure your Instagram account using 2FA
December 31, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that there was a potential denial of service vulnerability in tar, the GNU version of the tar UNIX archiving utility.
December 31, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Updated to 3.3.4. Security fix by upstream: Anti-Phishing protection.. Server-provided text will not appear in user-facing GUI windows anymore. Server error messages are instead parsed and mapped to predefined strings.
December 31, 2018
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
December 31, 2018
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
December 31, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Rust, the worst which may allow local attackers to execute arbitrary code.
December 30, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in GKSu might allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands.
December 30, 2018
Graham Cluley’s Desert Planet Picks
December 30, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 6 vulnerabilities is now available.
December 30, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has 17 fixes is now available.
December 30, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves one vulnerability and has two fixes is now available.
December 30, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 9 vulnerabilities and has four fixes is now available.
December 30, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available.
December 30, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available.
December 30, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
December 30, 2018
How Facebook Tracks Non-Users via Android Apps
December 30, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: **Archive_Tar version 1.4.4** * Fix Bug #21058: Long symlinks are not supported [mrook] * Fix Bug #23782: Prevent phar:// files from being extracted [mrook] — **PEAR** * drop deprecated option used when running `pear run-tests`
December 30, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: This update fixes CVE-2018-16646, CVE-2018-19058, CVE-2018-19059, CVE-2018-19060, CVE-2018-19149.
December 30, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Update to leptonica-1.77.0, see http://www.leptonica.com/source/version- notes.html for details.
December 30, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Update to leptonica-1.77.0, see http://www.leptonica.com/source/version- notes.html for details.
December 30, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.
December 29, 2018
security update
December 29, 2018
‘Snowden Refugee’ Has No Regrets for Helping Whistleblower
December 29, 2018
How to secure your Twitter account
December 29, 2018
Depressing lessons 2018’s endless data breaches taught us
December 29, 2018
Hackers steal personal info of 1,000 North Korean defectors
December 29, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: This update fixes CVE-2017-18267, CVE-2018-13988, CVE-2018-16646, CVE-2018-19058, CVE-2018-19059, CVE-2018-19060, CVE-2018-19149
December 29, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: This update fixes CVE-2018-18088 and CVE-2018-6616
December 29, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: This update fixes CVE-2018-18088 and CVE-2018-6616
December 29, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Update to leptonica-1.77.0, see http://www.leptonica.com/source/version- notes.html for details.
December 29, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Update to leptonica-1.77.0, see http://www.leptonica.com/source/version- notes.html for details.
December 29, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for fts3/4 corrupt database exploit
December 29, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2018-16869
December 29, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libextractor, a library to extract arbitrary meta-data from files, which may lead to denial of service or memory disclosure if a malformed OLE file is processed.
December 28, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
December 28, 2018
security update
December 28, 2018
security update
December 28, 2018
First-Ever UEFI Rootkit Tied to Sednit APT
December 28, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: A XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability was discovered in c3p0, a library for JDBC connection pooling, that may be used to resolve information outside of the intended sphere of control.
December 28, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple security issues were found in libarchive, a multi-format archive and compression library: Processing malformed RAR archives could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code and malformed WARC, LHarc, ISO, Xar or CAB archives could result in denial of service.
December 28, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark, a network protocol analyzer, which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.
December 28, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Some vulnerabilities were discovered in ghostscript, an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF.
December 28, 2018
Guardzilla Home Cameras Open to Anyone Wanting to Watch Their Footage
December 28, 2018
How to protect your Facebook account: a walkthrough
December 28, 2018
Hijacking Online Accounts Via Hacked Voicemail Systems
December 28, 2018
35C3 Day One: Security, Art and Hacking
December 28, 2018
Reading Time: ~2 min. Amazon User Receives Thousands of Alexa-Recorded Messages Upon requesting all his user data from Amazon, one user promptly received over 1,700 recorded messages from an Alexa device. Unfortunately, the individual didn’t own such a device. The messages were from a device belonging to complete stranger, and some of them could have easily […]
December 28, 2018
Analysis of the latest Emotet propagation campaign
An analysis of the workings of this new Emotet campaign, which has affected various countries in Latin America by taking advantage of Microsoft Office files to hide its malicious activity The post Analysis of the latest Emotet propagation campaign appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
December 28, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: A flaw was found in the i18n gem before 0.8.0 for Ruby. The Hash#slice in lib/i18n/core_ext/hash.rb allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a call in a situation where :some_key is present in keep_keys but not present in the hash (CVE-2014-10077).
December 28, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Fixed a stack-based buffer over-read in the print_prefix function (CVE-2018-19519). References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24077
December 28, 2018
FTC issues warning about a Netflix phishing scam
December 28, 2018
The most interesting and important hacks of 2018
December 28, 2018
GDPR’s impact was too soft in 2018, but next year will be different
December 28, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: A possible regression was found in the recent security update for libphp-phpmailer, announced as DLA 1591-1. During backporting a new variable have accidentally introduced to a conditional statement from
December 28, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2018-16737, CVE-2018-16738, CVE-2018-16758
December 28, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Update to new upstream version 1.5.5 (rhbz#1660413, rhbz#1660414)
December 28, 2018
FTC Warns of Netflix Phishing Scam Making Rounds
December 27, 2018
It’s the end of 2018, and this is your year in security
December 27, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: The Shopify Application Security Team discovered that ruby-sanitize, a whitelist-based HTML sanitizer, is prone to a HTML injection vulnerability. A specially crafted HTML fragment can cause to allow non- whitelisted attributes to be used on a whitelisted HTML element.
December 27, 2018
What should you do with your old devices
Disposal of old tech requires thought and effort and the need to cleanse the device of any personal data is just one of the concerns The post What should you do with your old devices appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
December 27, 2018
Over 19,000 Orange modems are leaking WiFi credentials
December 27, 2018
Two-factor authentication can save you from hackers
December 27, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Kaspersky Lab discovered several vulnerabilities in libvncserver, a C library to implement VNC server/client functionalities.
December 27, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2018-16737, CVE-2018-16738, CVE-2018-16758
December 27, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Update to new upstream version 1.5.5 (rhbz#1660413, rhbz#1660414)
December 27, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: The updated packages fix several bugs and some security issues. References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24041 – https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/60.4.0/releasenotes/
December 27, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: There is a use-after-free in monit that shows up if you run it for a while on an active system with address sanitizer enabled. References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24049
December 27, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: A security issue fixed upstream in sqlite3 has been announced: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/12/21/1 The issue is fixed in 3.25.3. References:
December 27, 2018
security update
December 27, 2018
19K Orange Livebox Modems Open to Attack
December 26, 2018
Top 2018 Security and Privacy Stories
December 26, 2018
Congress approves act that opens US government data to the public
December 26, 2018
Hacker steals ten years worth of data from San Diego school district
December 26, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libsndfile, the library for reading and writing files containing sampled sound. CVE-2017-8361
December 26, 2018
2019: The Year Ahead in Cybersecurity
December 25, 2018
Over 500K School Staff and Students Hit by Breach
December 25, 2018
Facebook let Netflix, Spotify read your private messages
December 25, 2018
What is ransomware? How these attacks work and how to recover from them
December 25, 2018
Could you speak up a bit? I didn’t catch your password
December 25, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: This update fixes multiple security vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-5783, CVE-2018-11254, CVE-2018-11255, CVE-2018-11256, CVE-2018-12982, CVE-2018-14320, CVE-2018-19532
December 25, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: This update fixes multiple security vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-5783, CVE-2018-11254, CVE-2018-11255, CVE-2018-11256, CVE-2018-12982, CVE-2018-14320, CVE-2018-19532
December 25, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: – Fix double-free in CEmuopl::~CEmuopl() (#1635881, CVE-2018-17825)
December 25, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: – Fix double-free in CEmuopl::~CEmuopl() (#1635881, CVE-2018-17825)
December 25, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Several issues were corrected in nagios3, a monitoring and management system for hosts, services and networks. CVE-2018-18245
December 24, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3833
December 24, 2018
LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3831
December 24, 2018
Critical Bug Patched in Schneider Electric Vehicle Charging Station
December 24, 2018
San Diego School District Data Breach Hits 500k Students
December 24, 2018
2018: A Banner Year for Breaches
December 24, 2018