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Worrying Windows 10 wrecking-ball weapon weirdly wanders wildly on worldwide web
Windows ‘Deletebug’ Zero-Day Allows Privilege Escalation, Destruction
Supermarket told it must compensate 100,000 workers after payroll data deliberately leaked by rogue employee

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

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 25 vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available.

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

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

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

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

sLoad Banking Trojan Downloader Displays Sophisticated Recon and Targeting
ThreatList: Ransomware, EKs and Trojans lead the Way in Q3 Malware Trends
Russia launched Triton malware to sabotage Saudi petrochemical plant
Vesta control panel servers infected with DDoS malware after supply chain attack
Are your jilted apps stalking you?
Banking Trojans continue to surface on Google Play

The malicious apps have all been removed from the official Android store but not before the apps were installed by almost 30,000 users The post Banking Trojans continue to surface on Google Play appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

WordPress takes aim at ancient versions of its software
Poorly secured SSH servers targeted by Chalubo botnet
Morrisons Loses Insider Breach Liability Appeal
Former high school teacher pleads guilty to hacking celebrities
Are you Cyber Aware? How about your friends and family?
Twitter thought Elon Musk’s bizarre tweets were evidence he’d been hacked
LuminosityLink RAT author sentenced to 2.5 years in jail

As part of his plea agreement, the author of the malware also forfeited the proceeds from his crimes – 114 Bitcoin worth $725,000 The post LuminosityLink RAT author sentenced to 2.5 years in jail appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

That Saudi oil and gas plant that got hacked. You’ll never guess who could… OK, it’s Russia

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

You patch my back(up) and I’ll patch yours… Arcserve bugs burrow remotely exploited holes in UDP storage systems
City Pays $2K in Ransomware, Stirs ‘Never Pay’ Debate

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2942

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2943

StrongPity APT Changes Tactics to Stay Stealthy
ProtonVPN Subscriptions Now Available on Firefox for $10
ThreatList: 3 Out of 4 Employees Pose a Security Risk to Businesses
Adult Website Hack Exposes 1.2M ‘Wife Lover’ Fans
How to Choose the Most Secure Software for your Business
Patch now! Multiple serious flaws found in Drupal
Phishing is still the most commonly used attack on organizations, survey says
Thousands of Applications Vulnerable to RCE via jQuery File Upload

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in Tex Live.

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Adult websites shuttered after 1.2 million user details exposed
Why is Elon Musk promoting this Bitcoin scam? (He’s not)
Morrisons supermarket: We’re taking payroll leak liability fight to UK Supreme Court
‘The inmates have taken over the asylum’: DNS godfather blasts DNS over HTTPS adoption
Pirates! Don’t blame your illegal file sharing on family members

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

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

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

If Facebook buys a security company, how will it retain the staff who absolutely hate Facebook?
jQuery? More like preyQuery: File upload tool can be exploited to hijack at-risk websites
Watch how a Tesla Model S was stolen with just a tablet
Patch me, if you can: Grave TCP/IP flaws in FreeRTOS leave IoT gear open to mass hijacking
Forgotten that Chinese spy chip story? We haven’t – it’s still wrong, Super Micro tells SEC

LinuxSecurity.com: Net-SNMP could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

LinuxSecurity.com: Paramiko could allow unintended access to network services.

LinuxSecurity.com: libssh could allow unintended access to network services.

LinuxSecurity.com: Requests could be made to expose sensitive information if it received a specially crafted HTTP header.

The Danger and Opportunity in 5G Connectivity and IoT
Obamacare Sign-Up Channel Breach Affects 75K Consumers
Personal data of 75,000 individuals exposed after HealthCare.gov system hack
Critical Bug Impacts Live555 Media Streaming Libraries
Take this short Recorded Future survey to assess your organization’s threat intelligence maturity
Popular website plugin harboured a serious 0-day for years
Strict password policy could prevent credential reuse, paper suggests

The solution to password recycling may be easier to implement than previously thought, according to a recent paper The post Strict password policy could prevent credential reuse, paper suggests appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Alleged robber busted after Facebook-friending victim to apologize
Vendors confirm products affected by libssh bug as PoC code pops up on GitHub
A Twitter employee groomed by the Saudi government prompted 2015 state-sponsored hacking warning
Up to 9.5 million net neutrality comments were fake
Maker of LuminosityLink RAT gets 30 months in the clink

LinuxSecurity.com: Heap-based buffer overflow in tif_packbits.c in libtiff 4.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to crash the application via a crafted bmp file (CVE-2016-5319). In LibTIFF 4.0.9, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function

Bad to the Bot Bone

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability has been discovered in exiv2 (CVE-2018-16336), a C++ library and a command line utility to manage image metadata, resulting in remote denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read/overflow) via

Watch out: MPlayer and VLC media player hit by critical vulnerability

LinuxSecurity.com: The package thunderbird before version 60.2.1-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary code execution and information disclosure.

Two Critical RCE Bugs Patched in Drupal 7 and 8
Apache Access Vulnerability Could Affect Thousands of Applications
Hackers breach Healthcare.gov system, taking files on 75,000 people
Password and credit card-stealing Azorult malware adds new tricks
North Korean hacker crew steals $571M in cryptocurrency across 5 attacks
Apple boss demands Bloomberg Super Micro U-turn, Russian troll charged, NSA hands out cash, and more
Facebook Portal isn’t designed to be as private as you might hope
Spotted: Miscreants use pilfered NSA hacking tools to pwn boxes in nuke, aerospace worlds

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated ghostscript packages fix many bugs and security vulnerabilities: Bypassing executeonly to escape -dSAFER sandbox. (CVE-2018-17961) Saved execution stacks can leak operator arrays. (CVE-2018-18073)

security update

LinuxSecurity.com: pdated tcpflow package fixes security vulnerability: An issue was discovered in wifipcap/wifipcap.cpp in TCPFLOW through 1.5.0-alpha. There is an integer overflow in the function handle_prism during caplen processing. If the caplen is less than 144, one can cause

LinuxSecurity.com: Smarty 3.1.32 or below is prone to a path traversal vulnerability due to insufficient template code sanitization. This allows attackers controlling the executed template code to bypass the trusted directory security restriction and read arbitrary files (CVE-2018-13982).

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated mgetty packages fix security vulnerabilities: The function do_activate() did not properly sanitize shell metacharacters to prevent command injection (CVE-2018-16741).

LinuxSecurity.com: This update provides vlc 3.0.4 and fixes atleast the following security issue: A use-after-free was discovered in the MP4 demuxer of the VLC media player, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed media

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated 389-ds-base package fixes security vulnerabilities: a race condition on reference counter leads to DoS using persistent search (CVE-2018-10850)

LinuxSecurity.com: The updated glib2.0 packages fix security vulnerabilities: In GNOME GLib 2.56.1, g_markup_parse_context_end_parse() in gmarkup.c has a NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2018-16428).

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated rust packages fix security vulnerability The Rust Programming Language Standard Library before version 1.29.1 contains a CWE-680: Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the standard library that can result in buffer overflow. This attack

LinuxSecurity.com: The updated clamav packages fix a security vulnerability: Vulnerability in ClamAV’s MEW unpacking feature that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition on an affected device (CVE-2018-15378).

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated docker packages fix security vulnerabilities: Lack of content verification in docker allowed a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service via a crafted image layer payload, aka gzip bombing (CVE-2017-14992).

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated calibre package fixes security vulnerability: gui2/viewer/bookmarkmanager.py in Calibre 3.18 calls cPickle.load on imported bookmark data, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted .pickle file, as demonstrated by Python code that

Risk Level: Very Low.