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Being at your beck and call is central to the “personality” of your digital friend, but there are situations when the device could use some time off The post Work from home: Should your digital assistant be on or off? appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Can someone take control of your WhatsApp account by just knowing your phone number? We ran a small test to find out. The post Hey there! Are you using WhatsApp? Your account may be hackable appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
An update for git 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,
An update for java-11-openjdk 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,
Reading Time: ~ 4 min. “One of the things about working in internet technology is nothing lasts forever… [Students] come to me and they say, ‘I want to do something that has an impact 20, 50, or 100 years from now.’ I say well maybe you should compose music because none of this technology stuff […]
The package webkit2gtk before version 2.28.1-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.
Bernd Edlinger discovered that malformed data passed to the SSL_check_chain() function during or after a TLS 1.3 handshake could cause a NULL dereference, resulting in denial of service.
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The package openvpn before version 2.4.9-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
It was discovered that there was a path-traversal issue in Apache Shiro, a security framework for the Java programming language. A specially-crafted request could cause an authentication bypass.
An update that fixes 26 vulnerabilities is now available.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.
fr-archive-libarchive.c in GNOME file-roller through 3.36.1 allows Directory Traversal during extraction because it lacks a check of whether a file’s parent is a symlink to a directory outside of the
Following CVEs were reported against the jackson-databind source package :
Following CVEs were reported against the awl source package: CVE-2020-11728
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Fixes CVE-2020-1730
Security fix for CVE-2020-5260 From the upstream [release notes](https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes/2.17.4.txt): > With a crafted URL that contains a newline in it, the credential > helper machinery can be fooled to give credential information for > a wrong host. The attack has been made impossible by forbidding > a newline character in any value
Bugfix release from Google for 80.0.3987.162. —- Update to 80.0.3987.162. Fixes the following CVEs: * CVE-2020-6450 * CVE-2020-6451 * CVE-2020-6452
Reading Time: ~ 2 min. Florida City Sees Lasting Effects of Ransomware Attack Nearly three weeks after the City of Jupiter, Florida suffered a ransomware attack that took many of their internal systems offline, the city has yet to return to normal. City officials announced they would be working to rebuild their systems from backups, […]
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.
New openvpn packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue.
With a crafted URL that contains a newline in it, the credential helper machinery can be fooled to give credential information for a wrong host. The attack has been made impossible by forbidding a newline character in any value passed via the credential protocol (CVE-2020-5260).
Chromium-browser 81.0.4044.92 fixes security issues: Multiple flaws were found in the way Chromium 80.0.3987.149 processes various types of web content, where loading a web page containing malicious content could cause Chromium to crash, execute arbitrary code,
– New Firefox and NSS upstream update – More info at https://www.mozilla.org/en- US/firefox/75.0/releasenotes/
– New Firefox and NSS upstream update – More info at https://www.mozilla.org/en- US/firefox/75.0/releasenotes/
Reading Time: ~ 3 min. One of the most notable findings to come from the Webroot 2020 Threat Report was the significant rise in the number of active phishing sites over 2019—a 640% rise, to be exact. This reflects a year-over-year rise in active phishing sites, but it’s important to keep this (dangerous) threat in […]
