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Monthly Archives: March 2020

Dark Web search engine Kilos lets users find hidden marketplaces
Comcast Xfinity published the contact details of 200,000 customers who paid for them to be kept private
UK Defence Committee probe into national security threat of Huawei sure to uncover lots of new and original insights
AMD Downplays CPU Threat Opening Chips to Data Leak Attacks
Coronavirus map used to spread malware
One billion Android smartphones racking up security flaws
Microsoft: Turn off Memory Integrity if it’s causing problems
Spyware maker NSO runs scared from Facebook over WhatsApp hacking charges, fails to show up in court
Now you need a notarized document to get a .gov domain
99% of compromised Microsoft enterprise accounts lack MFA
UK.gov is not sharing Brits’ medical data among different agencies… but it’s having a jolly good think about it
Check Point chap: Small firms don’t invest in infosec then hope they won’t get hacked. Spoiler alert: They get hacked
Virgin Media & T-Mobile data breach exposes customers data

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Don’t be fooled, experts warn, America’s anti-child-abuse EARN IT Act could burn encryption to the ground
Next-Gen Ransomware Packs a ‘Human’ Punch, Microsoft Warns
FYI: When Virgin Media said it leaked ‘limited contact info’, it meant p0rno filter requests, IP addresses, IMEIs as well as names, addresses and more
2 in 5 Android devices found vulnerable worldwide – That’s over a billion
UK spy auditor gives state snoops a big pat on the back for job well done – except MI5
Spread of Coronavirus-Themed Cyberattacks Persists with New Attacks
Remote working due to coronavirus? Here’s how to do it securely…
Critical Zoho Zero-Day Flaw Disclosed
Virgin Media left 900,000 consumers’ details exposed in unsecured database
201 million US demographic, personal records leaked online
Over one billion Android devices at risk as they no longer receive security updates
NordVPN quietly plugged vuln where an HTTP POST request without authentication would return detailed customer data

sudo: Stack based buffer overflow when pwfeedback is enabled (CVE-2019-18634) SL6 x86_64 sudo-1.8.6p3-29.el6_10.3.x86_64.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p3-29.el6_10.3.x86_64.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p3-29.el6_10.3.i686.rpm sudo-devel-1.8.6p3-29.el6_10.3.i686.rpm sudo-devel-1.8.6p3-29.el6_10.3.x86_64.rpm i386 sudo-1.8.6p3-29.el6_10.3.i686.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p3-29.e [More…]

Run ANDROID on an iPhone? Are you SERIOUS?!?
Researcher finds 670 Microsoft subdomains vulnerable to takeover

The updated package fixes a security vulnerability: A flaw was found in mod_auth_openidc before version 2.4.1. An open redirect issue exists in URLs with a slash and backslash at the beginning. (CVE-2019-20479)

Updated pure-ftpd packages fix security vulnerabilities: An issue was discovered in Pure-FTPd 1.0.49. An uninitialized pointer vulnerability has been detected in the diraliases linked list. When the *lookup_alias(const char alias) or print_aliases(void) function is called,

The updated packages fix several issues including security vulnerabilities: In Libarchive 3.4.0, archive_wstring_append_from_mbs in archive_string.c has an out-of-bounds read because of an incorrect mbrtowc or mbtowc call. For example, bsdtar crashes via a crafted archive. (CVE-2019-19221)

Updated dojo package fixes security vulnerability: dojox was vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting. This was due to dojox.xmpp.util.xmlEncode only encoding the first occurrence of each character, not all of them (CVE-2019-10785).

The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: Mutation XSS in bleach.clean when noscript and raw tag whitelisted. (CVE-2020-6802)

Chrome extension cons cryptocurrency users out of hardware wallet key
Boots suspends loyalty card payments after hackers try to compromise accounts
More than a billion hopelessly vulnerable Android gizmos in the wild that no longer receive security updates – research
Cathay Pacific fined over crooks slurping its database for over 4 years
Boots yanks loyalty card payouts after 150K accounts get stuffed
Like a Virgin, hacked for the very first time… UK broadband ISP spills 900,000 punters’ records into wrong hands from insecure database
Android users, if you could pause your COVID-19 panic buying for one minute to install these critical security fixes, that would be great
Man hacks Indian tech support scam call center; leaks CCTV footage
Let’s Encrypt: OK, maybe nuking three million HTTPS certs at once was a tad ambitious. Let’s take time out
Zynga Faces Lawsuit Over Massive Words with Friends Breach
Chris Eng: Patch Management Challenges Drive ‘Security Debt’
Staffer emails compromised and customer details exposed in T-Mobile US’s third security whoopsie in as many years
Hackers dropping info-stealer malware with fake security certificate alerts
High-Severity Cisco Webex Flaws Fixed
‘Unfixable’ boot ROM security flaw in millions of Intel chips could spell ‘utter chaos’ for DRM, file encryption, etc
Coronavirus warning spreads computer virus
Facebook: No, we are not killing Libra

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

It was discovered that there was an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in pdfresurrect, a tool for extracting or scrubbing versioning data from PDF documents.

Ethical hackers swarm Pentagon websites

xerces-c: XML parser contains a use-after-free error triggered during the scanning of external DTDs (CVE-2018-1311) SL7 x86_64 xerces-c-3.1.1-10.el7_7.i686.rpm xerces-c-3.1.1-10.el7_7.x86_64.rpm xerces-c-debuginfo-3.1.1-10.el7_7.i686.rpm xerces-c-debuginfo-3.1.1-10.el7_7.x86_64.rpm xerces-c-devel-3.1.1-10.el7_7.i686.rpm xerces-c-devel-3.1.1-10.el7_7.x86_64.rpm noar [More…]

nodejs: HTTP request smuggling using malformed Transfer-Encoding header (CVE-2019-15605) SL7 x86_64 http-parser-2.7.1-8.el7_7.2.i686.rpm http-parser-2.7.1-8.el7_7.2.x86_64.rpm http-parser-debuginfo-2.7.1-8.el7_7.2.i686.rpm http-parser-debuginfo-2.7.1-8.el7_7.2.x86_64.rpm http-parser-devel-2.7.1-8.el7_7.2.i686.rpm http-parser-devel-2.7.1-8.el7_7.2.x86_64.rpm – Scient [More…]

Google launches FuzzBench service to benchmark fuzzing tools
Trump, Sanders Are the Top Brands for Cybercriminals
Enable that MF-ing MFA: 1.2 million Azure Active Directory accounts compromised every month, reckons Microsoft
Let’s Encrypt Pushes Back Deadline to Revoke Some TLS Certificates
Zynga faces class action suit over massive Words With Friends hack

An update for the virt:8.1 and virt-devel:8.1 modules is now available for Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.1.1. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

Guildma: The Devil drives electric

The fourth installment of our occasional series demystifying Latin American banking trojans The post Guildma: The Devil drives electric appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Sadly, the web has brought a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘nothing is true; everything is permitted’
Time to limber up in the battle against cybercriminals
Alleged Vault 7 leaker trial finale: Want to know the CIA’s password for its top-secret hacking tools? 123ABCdef
Smashing Security #168: The Bitcoin fraud factory
Fake reviews & third-party apps cause 50% of threats against Android
Download this update from mybrowser.microsoft.com. Oh, sorry, that was malware on a hijacked sub-domain. Oops
Critical Netgear Bug Impacts Flagship Nighthawk Router
Microsoft OneNote Used To Sidestep Phishing Detection
CIA’s 11-year old hacking campaign against China exposed
If Tesco was hacked, your data could be being flogged for just £2.70 – research
Fraud Prevention Month: How to protect yourself from scams

ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe sat down with us to share his insights on how to avoid falling prey to online fraud The post Fraud Prevention Month: How to protect yourself from scams appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Loyalty Cards Targeted in Tesco Clubcard Attack
Why 3 million Let’s Encrypt certificates are being killed off today
Voice assistants can be hacked with ultrasonic waves

With access to text messages and the ability to make fraudulent phone calls, attackers could wreak more damage than you’d think The post Voice assistants can be hacked with ultrasonic waves appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

It has been 15 years, and we’re still reporting homograph attacks – web domains that stealthily use non-Latin characters to appear legit
UK data watchdog slaps a £500,000 fine on Cathay Pacific for 2018 9.4m customer data leak

An update for http-parser is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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

Police raid tech support scam centre who had their CCTV hacked by vigilantes

An update for http-parser is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

NCSC: Secure your webcams now
Cathay Pacific slammed for security failures following hack which exposed 9.4 million people worldwide
Google fixes MediaTek bug in Android March patches

An update that solves 22 vulnerabilities and has 152 fixes is now available.

Fancy that: Hacking airliner systems doesn’t make them magically fall out of the sky

An update that solves 22 vulnerabilities and has 152 fixes is now available.

Tech support scammers hacked back by vigilante
Facebook purges hundreds of fake accounts from state actors, marketers

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

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Hackers are using Word documents to drop NetSupport Manager RAT
Cobalt Ulster Strikes Again With New ForeLord Malware
Let’s Encrypt to Revoke Millions of TLS Certs
Let’s Encrypt? Let’s revoke 3 million HTTPS certificates on Wednesday, more like: Check code loop blunder strikes
MediaTek Bug Actively Exploited, Affects Millions of Android Devices
Why ‘free’ Wi-Fi isn’t really free
Have I Been Pwned No Longer For Sale