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Monthly Archives: November 2019

Office for Mac 2011 users warned about SYLK file format
Android keyboard app caught red‑handed trying to make sneaky purchases

The virtual keyboard app ai.type, which has racked up 40 million downloads, has been found to sign up users to premium services without their consent The post Android keyboard app caught red‑handed trying to make sneaky purchases appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

‘Peregrine falcon’-style drone swarms could help defend UK against Gatwick copycat attacks
Trump, Putin and Politics Name-Dropped to Peddle Malware
Concerns raised over privacy and security of UK Home Office’s £842m biometrics programme
Florida city sends $742K to fraudsters as it bites the BEC hook
Three UK does it again: Random folk on network website are still seeing others’ account data
Eye Clinic Breach Reveals Data of 20,000 Patients
Five ways to strengthen employee cybersecurity awareness

How can organizations foster a workplace environment that enables employees to acquire the skills needed to keep cyber-threats at bay? The post Five ways to strengthen employee cybersecurity awareness appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Police interrogate Alexa for clues in fatal spear-stabbing
PSA: Turning off silent macros in Office for Mac leaves users wide open to silent macro attacks
Ransomware freezes govt IT in Canadian territory of Nunavut, drops citizens right Inuit
Magecart Groups Attack Simultaneous Sites in Card-Theft Frenzy
Alexa, Siri, Google Smart Speakers Hacked Via Laser Beam
DoHn’t believe the hype! You are being lied to by data-hungry ISPs, Mozilla warns lawmakers
Apple developers – get this update to protect the rest of us!

Type: Vulnerability. Xen is prone to a privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Xen is prone to a security vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. OpenAFS is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Office for Mac is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability.

Type: Vulnerability. Apple Xcode is prone to multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Honeywell equIP and Performance Series IP Cameras and Recorders is prone to a remote authentication-bypass vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Multiple Honeywell Products are prone to an unauthorized-access vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Advantech WISE-PaaS/RMM is prone to multiple security vulnerabilities; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Multiple IBM Products are prone to an unauthorized-access vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Apache Commons Beanutils is prone to a remote security vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. LibGD is prone to a heap-based buffer-overflow vulnerability; fixes are available.

In a world of infosec rockstars, shutting down sexual harassment is hard work for victims
Wizard Spider Upgrades Ryuk Ransomware to Reach Deep into LANs

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Critical Remote Code Execution Flaw Found in Open Source rConfig Utility
BEC Scam Costs Media Giant Nikkei $29 Million
Please tell us why you’re not securing yourselves, UK.gov asks businesses
Russia’s sovereign internet law comes into force
Pentagon publishes AI guidelines
Undercover reporter tells all after working for a Polish troll farm
After months of worry, BlueKeep vulnerability is now being exploited in mass-hacking campaign
BlueKeep Attacks Have Arrived, Are Initially Underwhelming
Emerging Technology and Privacy: What You Need to Know
US grounds Chinese-made drones as part of security review
Chrome bug squashed, QNAP NAS nasty hits, BlueKeep malware spreads, and more

Risk Level: Very Low.

The package qt5-webengine before version 5.13.2-2 is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution.

Antimalware Day 2019: Building a culture of cybersecurity awareness

The introduction to a series of articles marking this year’s Antimalware Day and highlighting the importance of cyber-readiness The post Antimalware Day 2019: Building a culture of cybersecurity awareness appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

An update that fixes 21 vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes 21 vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Rebasing to 2.26.x For release info please see https://www.webkitgtk.org/2019/09/09/webkitgtk2.26.0-released.html and https://www.webkitgtk.org/2019/09/23/webkitgtk2.26.1-released.html CVE fixes: CVE-2019-8625, CVE-2019-8720, CVE-2019-8769, CVE-2019-8771

– fix heap-based buffer overflow in cdf_read_property_info() (CVE-2019-18218)

Updates the nspr and nss packages to upstream NSPR 4.23 and NSS 3.47 respectively. For details about new functionality and a list of bugs fixed in this release please see the upstream release notes – https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.47_release_notes

Updates the nspr and nss packages to upstream NSPR 4.23 and NSS 3.47 respectively. For details about new functionality and a list of bugs fixed in this release please see the upstream release notes – https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.47_release_notes

**PHP version 7.3.11** (24 Oct 2019) **Core:** * Fixed bug php#78535 (auto_detect_line_endings value not parsed as bool). (bugreportuser) * Fixed bug php#78620 (Out of memory error). (cmb, Nikita) **Exif :** * Fixed bug php#78442 (‘Illegal component’ on exif_read_data since PHP7) (Kalle) **FPM:** * Fixed bug php#78599 (env_path_info underflow in fpm_main.c can lead to RCE).

Updated libxslt package fixes security vulnerabilities: * In numbers.c in libxslt 1.1.33, an xsl:number with certain format strings could lead to a uninitialized read in xsltNumberFormatInsertNumbers. This could allow an attacker to discern whether a byte on the stack contains

Updated libsoup package fixes security vulnerability: It was discovered that libsoup incorrectly handled parsing certain NTLM messages. If a user or automated system were tricked into connecting to a malicious server, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to

Updated aspell packages fix security vulnerability: libaspell.a in GNU Aspell before 0.60.8 has a stack-based buffer over-read in acommon::unescape in common/getdata.cpp via an isolated character (CVE-2019-17544).

Updated golang packages fix security vulnerability: Daniel Mandragona discovered that invalid DSA public keys can cause a panic in dsa.Verify(), resulting in denial of service (CVE-2019-17596).

Updated ansible package fixes security vulnerabilities: ansible-playbook -k and ansible cli tools prompt passwords by expanding them from templates as they could contain special characters. Passwords should be wrapped to prevent templates trigger and exposing them

An update that fixes 21 vulnerabilities is now available.

Updates the nspr and nss packages to upstream NSPR 4.23 and NSS 3.47 respectively. For details about new functionality and a list of bugs fixed in this release please see the upstream release notes – https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.47_release_notes

Updates the nspr and nss packages to upstream NSPR 4.23 and NSS 3.47 respectively. For details about new functionality and a list of bugs fixed in this release please see the upstream release notes – https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.47_release_notes

Office for Mac Users Warned of Malicious SYLK Files

**PHP version 7.2.24** (24 Oct 2019) **Core:** * Fixed bug php#78535 (auto_detect_line_endings value not parsed as bool). (bugreportuser) * Fixed bug php#78620 (Out of memory error). (cmb, Nikita) **Exif:** * Fixed bug php#78442 (‘Illegal component’ on exif_read_data since PHP7) (Kalle) **FPM:** * Fixed bug php#78599 (env_path_info underflow in fpm_main.c can lead to RCE).

Solar, Wind Power Utility Disrupted in Rare Cyberattack

security update

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Type: Vulnerability. Xen is prone to a privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Xen is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Honeywell equIP Series IP Cameras is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Xen is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Foxit PhantomPDF is prone to multiple security vulnerabilities; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Elasticsearch Logstash is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Magento CMS is prone to multiple security vulnerabilities; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Google Chrome is prone to multiple security vulnerabilities; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Multiple IBM Products are prone to an HTTP response-splitting vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Cisco Video Communications Server is prone to a remote command-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

News Wrap: APTs, Office 365 Voicemail Phish and Bed Bath & Beyond Breach

Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3287

Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3281

Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3286

Global Crime Ring Bilks U.S. Military Members, Vets Out of Millions
Stubborn Malware Targets QNAP NAS Hardware Specifically
S2 Ep15: City under attack! VPN hacked, floppies nixed
Google Discloses Chrome Flaw Exploited in the Wild
A guest appearance on the IT Pro podcast…
Are you as handy with privacy certs as you are with a screwdriver? Ikea has the perfect vacancy
Apple props up macOS Catalina with 10.15.1 update
Happy Birthday, CVE!
Move along, nothing to see here: Auditors say £100k grant to Hacker House was ‘appropriate’
Android Keyboard App Could Swindle 40M Users Out of Millions

Reading Time: ~ 2 min. Bed, Bath, & Beyond Data Breach An official announcement made earlier this week acknowledged illicit access to customer data used in online accounts for Bed, Bath, & Beyond. While the breach didn’t affect payment card information, the retailer quickly began contacting affected customers and took steps to safeguard against future […]

Twitter bans political ads
Hackers plead guilty to breach that Uber covered up
US Air Force inks deal with Raytheon on Windows 10 (and other) support for ARSE
Hunt or be hunted: Get top advice and training from SANS on how to track’n’thwart hackers
40 million emoji-addicted keyboard app users left with $18m bill – after malware sneaks into Play Store yet again

Type: Vulnerability. Symantec Endpoint Protection is prone to a security-bypass vulnerability; fixes are available.