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Monthly Archives: January 2021

2.28M MeetMindful Daters Compromised in Data Breach

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Digital burglars break into the Australian Securities and Investments Commission
Cisco DNA Center Bug Opens Enterprises to Remote Attack
SonicWall Breach Stems from ‘Probable’ Zero-Days

An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

Man arrested after UK school reports wiped hard drives on devices connected to network
Hundreds of thousands of cryptocurrency investors put at risk after BuyUCoin security breach

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 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,

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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 is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 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,

urllib3 before 1.25.9 allows CRLF injection if the attacker controls the HTTP request method, as demonstrated by inserting CR and LF control characters in the first argument of putrequest() (CVE-2020-26137). References:

It was discovered that pip did not properly sanitize the filename during pip install. A remote attacker could possible use this issue to read and write arbitrary files on the host filesystem as root, resulting in a directory traversal attack (CVE-2019-20916).

Showering malware-laced laptops on UK schoolchildren is the wrong way to teach them about cybersecurity

The update for gst-plugins-bad1.0 released as DSA 4833-1 choosed a package version incompatible with binNMUs and prevented upgrades to the fixed packages. Updated gst-plugins-bad1.0 packages are now available to correct this issue.

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in salt, a powerful remote execution manager. The flaws could result in authentication bypass and invocation of Salt SSH, creation of certificates with weak file permissions via the TLS execution module or shell injections with the

An update that fixes 35 vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Security fixes: – fix buffer overrun in EUC-KR conversion module [bz #2497] (CVE-2019-25013) – arm: CVE-2020-6096: Fix multiarch memcpy for negative length [BZ #25620] – arm: CVE-2020-6096: fix memcpy and memmove for negative length [BZ #25620] – iconv: Fix incorrect UCS4 inner loop bounds [BZ #26923] (CVE-2020-29562)

Rebase SDDM to 0.19.0

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An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

ADT techie admits he peeked into women’s home security cams thousands of times to watch them undress, have sex

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

The container suse/sle15 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome Roll Out Password Protection Tools
Amazon Kindle RCE Attack Starts with an Email

Update to 87.0.4280.141. Fixes: CVE-2021-21106 CVE-2021-21107 CVE-2021-21108 CVE-2021-21109 CVE-2021-21110 CVE-2021-21111 CVE-2021-21112 CVE-2021-21113 CVE-2020-16043 CVE-2021-21114 CVE-2020-15995 CVE-2021-21115 CVE-2021-21116

A flaw was found in Undertow in versions before 2.1.1.Final, regarding the processing of invalid HTTP requests with large chunk sizes. This flaw allows an attacker to take advantage of HTTP request smuggling (CVE-2020-10719). References:

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the blosc library. Depending on how the library is used, if there is a lack of space to write compressed data, an attacker might exploit this flaw to crash the program or potentially execute arbitrary code (CVE-2020-29367).

ADT Tech Hacks Home-Security Cameras to Spy on Women
Scottish enviro bods shrug off ransomware gang’s extortion attempt as 4,000 files dumped online, saying it’s nothing big
Discord-Stealing Malware Invades npm Packages
Ransomware Attackers Publish 4K Private Scottish Gov Agency Files
Vadokrist: A wolf in sheep’s clothing

Another in our occasional series demystifying Latin American banking trojans The post Vadokrist: A wolf in sheep’s clothing appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Clop ransomware gang clips sensitive files from Atlantic Records’ London ad agency The7stars, dumps them online
Microsoft Edge goes homomorphic: Nobody will see your credentials… but you’ll need to sign in to use it
US administration adds “subliminal” ad to White House website

An update that fixes 13 vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes 13 vulnerabilities is now available.

Threat Actors Can Exploit Windows RDP Servers to Amplify DDoS Attacks
Implementing the ACSC “Essential Eight” baseline for security automation in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

A vulnerability in KDE Connect could lead to a Denial of Service condition.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in VirtualBox, the worst of which could result in privilege escalation.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Thunderbird, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Chromium and Google Chrome, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

Hackers release over 4,000 files stolen from Scottish environment agency in ransomware attack
It’s 2021 and you can hijack a Cisco SD-WAN deployment with malicious IP traffic and a buffer overflow. Patch now
Einstein Healthcare Network Announces August Breach
SQL Server Malware Tied to Iranian Software Firm, Researchers Allege
Laptops given to British schoolkids came preloaded with malware and talked to Russia when booted
Microsoft SolarWinds analysis: Attackers hid inside Windows systems by wearing the skins of legit processes
Is Joe Biden’s Peloton a cybersecurity risk? Don’t sweat about it
Google Forms Set Baseline For Widespread BEC Attacks
Google Searches Expose Stolen Corporate Credentials

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Google Chrome wants to fix your unsafe passwords
Post-ransomware attack, Hackney Council wants to change its cybersecurity culture
Using OPA with GitOps to speed cloud-native development
Smashing Security podcast #211: Fleeking, COVID-19 hacking, and Bitcoin balls-ups

Webroot BrightCloud® Threat Intelligence relies on the collective power of millions of devices working together. But what sometimes gets lost is the actual humans behind bringing this technology to market. In this Employee Spotlight, we talk to Account Development Executive, Jordan Gray, who works with C-level executives to integrate threat intelligence solutions within their environments. […]

Critical Cisco SD-WAN Bugs Allow RCE Attacks
DNSpooq bugs expose millions of devices to DNS cache poisoning

Security flaws in a widely used DNS software package could allow attackers to send users to malicious websites or to remotely hijack their devices The post DNSpooq bugs expose millions of devices to DNS cache poisoning appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Backport fixes for CVE-2020-35653, CVE-2020-35654, CVE-2020-35655.

Backport fixes for CVE-2020-35653, CVE-2020-35654, CVE-2020-35655.

Update to security fix 1.6 version. Fixes CVE-2019-17455

rfc822.c in Mutt through 2.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (mailbox unavailability) by sending email messages with sequences of semicolon characters in RFC822 address fields (aka terminators of empty groups).

NVIDIA Gamers Face DoS, Data Loss from Shield TV Bugs

Rebase to 1.9.5p1 – updated sudo url Resolves: rhbz#1902758 – enabled python plugin as a subpackage Resolves: rhbz#1909299 – fixed double free in sss_to_sudoers Resolves: rhbz#1885874 – fixed CVE-2021-23239 sudo: possible directory existence test due to race condition in sudoedit Resolves: rhbz#1915055 – fixed CVE-2021-23240 sudo: symbolic link attack in SELinux-

How most large cloud breaches happen revealed in Orca Security report
Has the coronavirus pandemic affected Apple’s hardware design?
Malwarebytes Hit by SolarWinds Attackers
Wherever your apps, users and data are heading, is your backup keeping up?
Investment Scammers Prey on Dating App Users, Interpol Warns
Google Research Pinpoints Security Soft Spot in Multiple Chat Platforms
Malwarebytes says its Office 365, Azure tenancies have been breached, insists its tools are still safe to use
Slack has entered the Matrix: Element builds a bridge to realm of encrypted, decentralised comms

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 3.11.374 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs. This release also includes a security update for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11.

An update that fixes 7 vulnerabilities is now available.

Open banking is the future, so let’s secure the APIs
Dnsmasq, used in only a million or more internet-facing devices globally, patches not-so-secret seven spoofing, hijacking flaws

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

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.5.27 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements. This release also includes a security update for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5.

DNSpooq Flaws Allow DNS Hijacking of Millions of Devices
FireEye publishes details of SolarWinds hacking techniques, gives out free tool to detect signs of intrusion

Rebase to 1.9.5p1 – updated sudo url Resolves: rhbz#1902758 – enabled python plugin as a subpackage Resolves: rhbz#1909299 – fixed double free in sss_to_sudoers Resolves: rhbz#1885874 – fixed CVE-2021-23239 sudo: possible directory existence test due to race condition in sudoedit Resolves: rhbz#1915055 – fixed CVE-2021-23240 sudo: symbolic link attack in SELinux-

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Rob Joyce to Take Over as NSA Cybersecurity Director
FBI warns of voice phishing attacks stealing corporate credentials

Criminals coax employees into handing over their access credentials and use the login data to burrow deep into corporate networks The post FBI warns of voice phishing attacks stealing corporate credentials appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

WhatsApp delays privacy policy update after confusion, backlash

Millions of people flock to Signal and Telegram as WhatsApp scrambles to assuage users’ concerns The post WhatsApp delays privacy policy update after confusion, backlash appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

SolarWinds Malware Arsenal Widens with Raindrop
Linux Devices Under Attack by New FreakOut Malware
Attackers Steal E-Mails, Info from OpenWrt Forum
Labour Party urges UK data watchdog to update its Code of Employment Practices to tackle workplace snooping

It was discovered that OpenLDAP incorrectly handled certain malformed inputs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenLDAP to crash, resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2020-25709, CVE-2020-25710). References:

Multiple vulnerabilities related to unsafe tempfile usage (bsc#1146690, bsc#1146691, bsc#1146692, bsc#1146766, bsc#1146776, bsc#1146784, bsc#1146785, bsc#1146787). Issues where the ocfmon user was created with a default password (bsc#1021689,

An update for dnsmasq is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which