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Monthly Archives: March 2019

Change your Facebook password now!
Let’s spin Facebook’s Wheel of Misfortune! Clack-clack-clack… clack… You’ve won ‘100s of millions of passwords stored in plaintext’
Hackers Take Down Safari, VMware and Oracle at Pwn2Own

The user module leaked parameters passed to ssh-keygen to the process environment (CVE-2018-16837). The fetch module was susceptible to path traversal (CVE-2019-3828).

In ImageMagick before 7.0.8-25 and GraphicsMagick through 1.3.31, several memory leaks exist in WritePDFImage in coders/pdf.c. (CVE-2019-7397) References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24396

Proxy Auto-Configuration file can define localhost access to be proxied (CVE-2018-18506). Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 66 and Firefox ESR 60.6 (CVE-2019-9788).

Some 2000 Facebook staff had access to millions of Facebook users’ passwords… stored in plaintext
Kaspersky Lab takes bite out of Apple in Russia over borked parental controls app

Several security issues were fixed in Ghostscript.

An update for ghostscript 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

NTFS-3G could be made to crash or potentially run programs as anadministrator if executed with specially crafted arguments.

Facebook Stored Passwords in Plain Text For Years
Live Regcast: Ex-CISO and coal-face engineer Scott King shares his advice on becoming a pragmatic security leader
Brit Police Federation cops to ransomware attack on HQ systems
MyPillow and Amerisleep Targeted in Magecart Group Attacks
Most second-hand thumb drives contain data from past owners

Our penchant for plugging in random memory sticks isn’t the only trouble with our USB hygiene, a study shows The post Most second-hand thumb drives contain data from past owners appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

New phisherman’s friends and a few old favourites slither out of WatchGuard’s Security Report
Cisco Patches High-Severity Flaws in IP Phones
Researcher finds new way to sniff Windows BitLocker encryption keys
I Still Didn’t See What You Did

More advice for detecting and avoiding sextortion scams The post I Still Didn’t See What You Did appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Smashing Security #120: Silk Road with Deliveroo
Flaw in popular PDF creation library enabled remote code execution
Opera brings back free VPN service to its Android browser
FBI crackdown on DDoS-for-hire sites led to 85% slash in attack sizes
Windows Defender ATP is dead. Long live Microsoft Defender ATP
Don’t become another expensive statistic: Learn how to tackle cyber-criminals, at SANS London next month
Carolina coward fesses up: I was a tech support scambag, and I made millions out of defrauding the elderly
Mac-Focused Malvertising Campaign Abuses Google Firebase DBs

Reading Time: ~4 min. Since the dawn of IT, there’s been a very consistent theme among admins: end users are the weakest link in your network, organization, security strategy, fill-in-the-blank. We’ve all heard the stories, and even experienced them first-hand. An employee falls for a phishing scam and the whole network is down. Another colleague […]

Post-Perimeter Security: Addressing Evolving Mobile Enterprise Threats
Renegade Android apps can siphon off your web logins, browser history. So make sure Chrome or OS is patched, friends
Years-Long Phishing Campaign Targets Saudi Gov Agencies

An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Fin7 Ramps Up Campaigns With Two Fresh Malware Samples

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

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

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

An update that solves 9 vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Uber Deployed ‘Surfcam Spyware’ in Australia to Crush the Competition – Report
Google hit with €1.49 billion antitrust fine by EU

The third penalty that Europe has levied on the tech giant in less than two years brings the total to €8.25 billion The post Google hit with €1.49 billion antitrust fine by EU appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

The package wordpress before version 5.1-1 is vulnerable to directory traversal.

The package libelf before version 0.176-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.

MySpace loses 12 years worth of photos, songs & video files

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSH, the worst of which could allow a remote attacker to gain unauthorized access.

Google researcher discovers new type of Windows security weakness
Researchers fret over Netflix interactive TV traffic snooping
Hacked tornado warning systems leave Texans in the dark
Firefox 66 now blocks autoplaying audio by default
Elsevier exposes users’ emails and passwords online
Hydro working hard to recover following ransomware attack
Fake or Fake: Keeping up with OceanLotus decoys

ESET researchers detail the latest tricks and techniques OceanLotus uses to deliver its backdoor while staying under the radar The post Fake or Fake: Keeping up with OceanLotus decoys appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Israeli fintech firms hit by Cardinal RAT malware

Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0597

Silence of the WANs: FBI DDoS-for-hire greaseball takedowns slash web flood attacks ‘by 11%’

An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available.

Cardinal RAT Resurrected to Target FinTech Firms
Host of Flaws Found in CUJO Smart Firewall

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Podcast: The High-Risk Threats Behind the Norsk Hydro Cyberattack
Ransomware drops the Lillehammer on Norsk Hydro: Aluminium giant forced into manual mode after systems scrambled
Old Tech Spills Digital Dirt on Past Owners
Youve Been Pwned! Best Practices to Prevent Your Email Account from Being Compromised in a Data Breach
New scam accuses you of child abuse, offers to remove evidence

An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

cloud-init: extra ssh keys added to authorized_keys on the Azure platform (CVE-2019-0816) SL7 x86_64 cloud-init-18.2-1.el7_6.2.x86_64.rpm – Scientific Linux Development Team

You should pick your Android security app wisely, test shows

It’s prudent to get a security solution for your device, but a test by AV-Comparatives shows why you need to choose judiciously The post You should pick your Android security app wisely, test shows appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Researcher Says NSA’s Ghidra Tool Can Be Used for RCE
Sorry, Linux. We know you want to be popular, but cyber-crooks are all about Microsoft for now

An update that fixes 9 vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Norsk Hydro Calls Ransomware Attack ‘Severe’
Microsoft won’t patch Windows registry warning problem
Gargantuan Gnosticplayers breach swells to 863 million records

Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0482

Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0485

Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0483

Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0512

It has been discovered that OTRS (Open source Ticket Request System) is susceptible to code injection vulnerability. An attacker who is logged into OTRS as an agent or a customer user may upload a carefully

ThreatList: DDoS Attack Sizes Drop 85 Percent Post FBI Crackdown
Court: Embarrassing leaks of internal Facebook emails are fishy
Epic in hot water over Steam-scraping code
MySpace loses 50 million songs in server migration
I didn’t see what you did, redux

Cyberblackmail/sextortion again raises its not-so-pretty little head The post I didn’t see what you did, redux appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Child-friendly search engines: How safe is Kiddle?
PuTTY in your hands: SSH client gets patched after RSA key exchange memory vuln spotted

An update is now available for CloudForms Management Engine 5.9. 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

Bandersnatch to gander snatched: Black Mirror choices can be snooped on, thanks to privacy-leaking Netflix streams

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Bad cup of Java leaves nasty taste in IBM Watson’s ‘AI’ mouth: Five security bugs to splat in analytics gear

The CLI tools in python-rdflib-tools can load python modules found in the current directory. This happens because “python -m” appends the current directory in the python path.

The ikiwiki maintainers discovered that the aggregate plugin did not use LWPx::ParanoidAgent. On sites where the aggregate plugin is enabled, authorized wiki editors could tell ikiwiki to fetch potentially undesired URIs even if LWPx::ParanoidAgent was installed:

Fourth Major Credential Spill in a Month Hits DreamMarket
Mirai Variant Goes After Enterprise Systems
Google Gives Users More Choice with Location-Tracking Apps
This headline is proudly brought to you by wired keyboards: Wireless Fujitsu model hacked