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LinuxSecurity.com: Updates the nss family of packages to upstream NSPR 4.20 and NSS 3.39. 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_3.39_release_notes

LinuxSecurity.com: Updates the nss family of packages to upstream NSPR 4.20 and NSS 3.39. 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_3.39_release_notes

LinuxSecurity.com: Updates the nss family of packages to upstream NSPR 4.20 and NSS 3.39. 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_3.39_release_notes

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2018-1000801

Just 13 – no, er, make that 3,200 punters hit in Oz’s Perth Mint hack

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.

Zero-Day Bug Allows Hackers to Access CCTV Surveillance Cameras

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LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2017-15422

LinuxSecurity.com: Security update for `CVE-2018-16543` and `CVE-2018-16510`, which were recently discovered.

Facebook Now Offers Bounties For Access Token Exposure
Check out this link! It’s not like it’ll crash your iPhone or anything (Hint: Of course it will)
Old WordPress Plugin Being Exploited in RCE Attacks
CSS-Based Attack Causes iOS, macOS Devices to Crash
Safari & Firefox browser to block user data tracking with new security add-ons
Another wave of sextortion emails
Bristol Airport says it did not pay any ransom to recover from cyber attack
Vote now! Which web browser do you trust the most?

LinuxSecurity.com: USN-3761-1 caused several regressions in Firefox.

8 Industry Best Practices for a Successful Mobile First Strategy (eBook by OneSpan)
Brit airport pulls flight info system offline after attack by ‘online crims’
Bristol airport takes flight screens offline after apparent ransomware attack

The screens in “key locations” are back up and running again, while the airport paid no ransom to return its systems to working order The post Bristol airport takes flight screens offline after apparent ransomware attack appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available.

Deepfake pics and videos set off Facebook’s fake news detector

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 26 fixes is now available.

On the hook! Phishing trip nets “Barbara” 5 years and whopping fine
Cybersecurity Is Only 1 Part of Election Security
The Linux Kernel Has Grown By 225k Lines of Code So Far This Year From 3.3k Developers
Facebook’s robot coders step into the future of programming
Who’s hacking into UK unis? Spies, research-nickers… or rival gamers living in res hall?
One in three UK orgs hit by cryptojacking in previous month, survey finds

Conversely, only a little over one-third of IT executives believe that their systems have never been hijacked to surreptitiously mine digital currencies The post One in three UK orgs hit by cryptojacking in previous month, survey finds appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

LinuxSecurity.com: curl could be made to run arbitrary code if it received a specially crafted input.

Tick-tock, tick-tock. Oh, that’s just the sound of compromised logins waiting to ruin your day

LinuxSecurity.com: curl could be made to run arbitrary code if it received a speciallycrafted input.

How to crash and restart an iPhone with a CSS-based web attack
Equifax IT staff had to rerun hackers’ database queries to work out what was nicked – audit
Amazon staff said to be taking bribes to leak data

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

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

Canadian town forced to pay Bitcoin after nasty ransomware attack
Cloud data management firm exposes database with over 440M emails & IP addresses
Russian Cybercriminal Pleads Guilty to Operating Kelihos Botnet
Apple removes top anti-malware apps from its store for “stealing data”
Pakistani hacker reports address bar spoofing flaws in Edge & Safari browser
Air-conditioned apocalypse: A blackout scenario involving smart climate control devices
Potential Hurricane Florence Phishing Scams
New GandCrab variant attacks Florida School District

LinuxSecurity.com: zutils version prior to version 1.8-pre2 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in zcat which happened with some input files when the ‘-v, –show-nonprinting’ option was

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Official mobile version of Tor Browser released for Android – Download now
ICO Swamped with GDPR Breach Over-Reporting
DDoS attacks: Students blamed for many university cyber attacks
Kronos crims go retro, Apple builds cop portal, Swiss cheesed over Russian hack bid, etc

LinuxSecurity.com: New php packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues.

Docker fave Alpine Linux suffers bug miscreants can exploit to poison containers
Researchers Heat Up Cold-Boot Attack That Works on All Laptops
E.U.: Tech Giants Face Big Fines, 1 Hour Limit to Remove Extremist Content

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2692

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2693

Security procedures are good – follow them and you get to keep your job
Five Weakest Links in Cybersecurity That Target the Supply Chain

Reading Time: ~2 min.Massive Customer Database Left Exposed by Data Management Firm A security researcher recently found a database containing customer information for nearly half a billion users of Veeam software on an unsecured AWS server. Most of the data was contact information spanning from 2013 to 2017 and was likely used by the Veeam […]

Magecart Threat Group Racks Up More Hack Victims
Veeam holds its hands up, admits database leak was plain ‘complacency’
Blockchain hustler beats the house with smart contract hack
Major US mobile carriers want to be your password
Kernel sanders: Webroot vuln creates route to root Macs
Review that! Fake TripAdvisor review peddler sent to jail
You didn’t buy ‘your’ iTunes movies; Apple can delete them anytime
You’ll never guess what you can do once you steal a laptop, reflash the BIOS, and reboot it
Browser security hole on Macs and iPhones – just how bad is it?

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated ntp packages fix security vulnerability: Stack-based buffer overflow in ntpq and ntpdc of NTP version 4.2.8p11 allows an attacker to achieve code execution or escalate to higher privileges via a long string as the argument for an IPv4 or IPv6

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerability: Successful exploitation of the currently un-disclosed vulerability could lead to information disclosure (CVE-2018-15967).

LinuxSecurity.com: New ghostscript packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues.

OilRig APT Continues Its Ongoing Malware Evolution
Princely five years in US big house for Nigerian biz email scammer
Former Detroit IT boss sent down 20 months for bathroom bung bonanza
ThreatList: Microsoft Macros Remain Top Vector for Malware Delivery

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for flash-plugin is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

Programmer’s Day: Resources to audit your code

Taking advantage of the celebration of the Day of the Programmer, we share some audit tools to evaluate the security of your code The post Programmer’s Day: Resources to audit your code appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Veeam leaves MongoDB database wide open, exposes 445m records
Street gang members indicted for stealing POS terminals
Experts Bemoan Shortcomings with IoT Security Bill
Prison for man who assisted scareware scheme that targeted newspaper website
The Reg takes the US government’s insider threat training course
Kodi add-ons launch cryptomining campaign

ESET researchers have discovered several third-party add-ons for the popular open-source media player Kodi being used to distribute Linux and Windows cryptocurrency-mining malware The post Kodi add-ons launch cryptomining campaign appeared first on WeLiveSecurity