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Monthly Archives: March 2023

NYPD blues: Cops ignored 93 percent of surveillance law rules
ESET Research Podcast: A year of fighting rockets, soldiers, and wipers in Ukraine

ESET experts share their insights on the cyber-elements of the first year of the war in Ukraine and how a growing number of destructive malware variants tried to rip through critical Ukrainian systems The post ESET Research Podcast: A year of fighting rockets, soldiers, and wipers in Ukraine appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Hack the Pentagon website promotes the benefits of bug bounties to US Military

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

Psst! Infosec bigwigs: Wanna be head of security at HM Treasury for £50k?
Red Hat Shares – Security automation
NHS Highland ‘reprimanded’ by data watchdog for BCC blunder with HIV patients
World Backup Day: Avoiding a data disaster is a forever topic 

By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail. Make sure you’re able to bounce back if, or when, a data disaster strikes. The post World Backup Day: Avoiding a data disaster is a forever topic  appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Json-smart library. Json-smart is a performance focused, JSON processor lib written in Java. CVE-2021-31684

Pro-Russia cyber gang Winter Vivern puts US, Euro lawmakers in line of fire

The container suse/sle-micro/5.2/toolbox was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse/sle-micro/5.1/toolbox was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container bci/bci-minimal was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

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

Leaked IT contractor files detail Kremlin’s stockpile of cyber-weapons
World Backup Day is here again – 5 tips to keep your precious data safe
Azure blunder left Bing results editable, MS 365 accounts potentially exposed
AlienFox malware caught in the cloud hen house
Supply chain blunder puts 3CX telephone app users at risk
Pig butchering scams: The anatomy of a fast‑growing threat

How fraudsters groom their marks and move in for the kill using tricks from the playbooks of romance and investment scammers The post Pig butchering scams: The anatomy of a fast‑growing threat appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Do you use comms software from 3CX? What to do next after biz hit in supply chain attack
Clipboard-injecting malware disguises itself as Tor browser, steals cryptocurrency
S3 Ep128: So you want to be a cyber­criminal? [Audio + Text]
Microsoft uses carrot and stick with Exchange Online admins

Several out of bounds memory access and buffer overflows were fixed in xrdp, an open source project which provides a graphical login to remote machines using Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)

The most important email conversation you will ever have

The container bci/bci-init was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container bci/python was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container bci/python was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container bci/nodejs was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container bci/nodejs was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

Warning: Your wireless networks may leak data thanks to Wi-Fi spec ambiguity
US sends million-dollar scammer to prison for four years
Another year, another North Korean malware-spreading, crypto-stealing gang named
Smugglers busted sneaking tech into China
Malware disguised as Tor browser steals $400k in cryptocash
Smashing Security podcast #315: Crypto hacker hijinks, government spyware, and Utah social media shocker

security update

Microsoft Defender shoots down legit URLs as malicious
Staying safe on OnlyFans: The naked truth

How content creators and subscribers can embrace the social media platform without (overly) exposing themselves to the potentially toxic brew of NSFW content and privacy threats The post Staying safe on OnlyFans: The naked truth appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

EU mandated messaging platform love-in is easier said than done: Cambridge boffins

Jan-Niklas Sohn discovered that a user-after-free flaw in the Composite extension of the X.org X server may result in privilege escalation if the X server is running under the root user.

Several security vulnerabilities have been discovered in unbound, a validating, recursive, caching DNS resolver. CVE-2022-3204

FTX cryptovillain Sam Bankman-Fried charged with bribing Chinese officials
DDoS DNS attacks are old-school, unsophisticated … and they’re back

The container bci/rust was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

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

The container bci/nodejs was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container bci/golang was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

China urges Apple to improve security and privacy

security update

Apple patches all the iThings, including iOS 15 hole under attack right now
Google again accused of willfully destroying evidence in Android antitrust battle
Apple patches everything, including a zero-day fix for iOS 15 users
Cops use fake DDoS services to take aim at wannabe cybercriminals

The container bci/bci-init was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

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

The container bci/ruby was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container bci/python was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container bci/python was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container bci/openjdk was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

US president Biden kind of mostly bans commercial spyware
Lawyers cough up $200k after health data stolen in Microsoft Exchange pillaging
UK police reveal they are running fake DDoS-for-hire sites to collect details on cybercriminals
Microsoft assigns CVE to Snipping Tool bug, pushes patch to Store

The container ses/7.1/rook/ceph was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container ses/7.1/ceph/ceph was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container ses/7.1/ceph/grafana was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container ses/7.1/cephcsi/cephcsi was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

Can zero trust be saved?
Gone in 120 seconds: Tesla Model 3 child’s play for hackers
China crisis is a TikToking time bomb

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. 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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

In Memoriam – Gordon Moore, who put the more in “Moore’s Law”

security update

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor, which could result in privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.

3 security issues (#2180425) x86 shadow plus log-dirty mode use-after-free [XSA-427, CVE-2022-42332] x86/HVM pinned cache attributes mis-handling [XSA-428, CVE-2022-42333, CVE-2022-42334] x86: speculative vulnerability in 32bit SYSCALL path [XSA-429, CVE-2022-42331]

3 security issues (#2180425) x86 shadow plus log-dirty mode use-after-free [XSA-427, CVE-2022-42332] x86/HVM pinned cache attributes mis-handling [XSA-428, CVE-2022-42333, CVE-2022-42334] x86: speculative vulnerability in 32bit SYSCALL path [XSA-429, CVE-2022-42331]

Fix for CVE-2022-48303

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 102.9.0. * Mozilla: Incorrect code generation during JIT compilation (CVE-2023-25751) * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 111 and Firefox ESR 102.9 (CVE-2023-28176) * Mozilla: Potential out-of-bounds when accessing throttled streams (CVE-2023-25752) * Mozilla: Invalid downcast in Worklets (CVE-2023-28162) * Mozilla: URL being dragged fr [More…]

Highlights from TikTok CEO’s Congress grilling – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Here are some of the key moments from the five hours of Shou Zi Chew’s testimony and other interesting news on the data privacy front The post Highlights from TikTok CEO’s Congress grilling – Week in security with Tony Anscombe appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

What TikTok knows about you – and what you should know about TikTok

As TikTok CEO attempts to placate U.S. lawmakers, it’s time for us all to think about the wealth of personal information that TikTok and other social media giants collect about us The post What TikTok knows about you – and what you should know about TikTok appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

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

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

update to 111.0.5563.110. Fixes the following security issues: CVE-2023-1528 CVE-2023-1529 CVE-2023-1530 CVE-2023-1531 CVE-2023-1532 CVE-2023-1533 CVE-2023-1534

Rebuild for CVE-20220-{3064,41717,41723}

security update

security update

New tar packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix a security issue.

CISA unleashes Untitled Goose Tool to honk at danger in Microsoft’s cloud
WooCommerce Payments plugin for WordPress has an admin-level hole – patch now!
GitHub publishes RSA SSH host keys by mistake, issues update

This update includes the changes in tzdata 2023b for the Perl bindings. For the list of changes, see DLA-3366-1. For Debian 10 buster, this problem has been fixed in version

This update includes the changes in tzdata 2023b. Notable changes are: – – Egypt uses DST again, starting on April.

French parliament says oui to AI surveillance for 2024 Paris Olympics

Incorrect code generation during JIT compilation. (CVE-2023-25751) Potential out-of-bounds when accessing throttled streams. (CVE-20223-25752) Invalid downcast in Worklets. (CVE-2023-28162) URL being dragged from a removed cross-origin iframe into the same tab triggered navigation. (CVE-2023-28164)

If a malicious Flatpak app is run on a Linux virtual console such as /dev/tty1, it can copy text from the virtual console and paste it back into the virtual console’s input buffer, from which the command might be run by the user’s shell after the Flatpak app has exited. This is similar to CVE-2017-5226, […]

In the MHD_PostProcessor, malformed inputs can be used to crash the server (for denial-of-service). References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31670

LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds read in tiffcp in tools/tiffcp.c:948, allowing attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. (CVE-2022-4645) References: