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LinuxSecurity.com: An update for bind is now available 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, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for bind is now available 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, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for java-1.7.1-ibm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

LinuxSecurity.com: This is the Six-Month notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Advanced Mission Critical (AMC). This notification applies only to those customers subscribed to the Advanced Mission Critical (AMC) channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4.

EU may fine political groups misusing personal data to skew elections
How hackers managed to steal $13.5 million in Cosmos bank heist

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves one vulnerability and has 6 fixes is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves one vulnerability and has 10 fixes is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Ruby 2.1. CVE-2016-2337

LinuxSecurity.com: The Bootstrap framework was found to have cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the “collapse” plugin. For Debian 8 “Jessie”, this problem has been fixed in version

LinuxSecurity.com: The system could be made to expose sensitive information.

US Election Hack Whistleblower Gets Five Years
Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen Chain Suffers Data Breach

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for rh-postgresql96-postgresql is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for rh-postgresql10-postgresql is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

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 fixes 31 vulnerabilities is now available.

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 fixes one vulnerability is now available.

99% of Texas Voter Records Exposed
It’s The Season For A Lot Of Interesting Linux / Open-Source Conferences
T-Mobile, AT&T customer account PINs were exposed by website flaws

LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2018-15501 A potential out-of-bounds read when processing a “ng” smart packet might lead to a Denial of Service.

The GDPR Ripple Effect
T-Mobile Hacked – 2 Million Customers’ Personal Data Stolen

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

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: postgresql: Certain host connection parameters defeat client-side security defenses (CVE-2018-10915) SL7 x86_64 postgresql-debuginfo-9.2.24-1.el7_5.i686.rpm postgresql-debuginfo-9.2.24-1.el7_5.x86_64.rpm postgresql-libs-9.2.24-1.el7_5.i686.rpm postgresql-libs-9.2.24-1.el7_5.x86_64.rpm postgresql-9.2.24-1.el7_5.i686.rpm postgresql-9.2.24-1.el7_5.x86_64.rpm postgre [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for postgresql is now available 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, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability

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

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

Medical records of high school students leaked in ‘appalling’ data breach

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.

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update for openstack-keystone is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton). Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

LinuxSecurity.com: Pango could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 21 fixes is now available.

Hacker holds the data of 20,000 Superdrug customers to ransom
Hackers Use Public Cloud Features to Breach, Persist In Business Networks

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

LinuxSecurity.com: The security update announced as DSA 4279-1 caused regressions on the ARM architectures (boot failures on some systems). Updated packages are now available to correct this issue.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for openstack-keystone is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens). Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

LinuxSecurity.com: mutt: Remote code injection vulnerability to an IMAP mailbox (CVE-2018-14354) * mutt: Remote Code Execution via backquote characters (CVE-2018-14357) * mutt: POP body caching path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2018-14362) SL6 x86_64 mutt-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.x86_64.rpm mutt-debuginfo-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.x86_64.rpm i386 mutt-1.5.20-9.20091214hg736b6a.el6.i68 [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: base-files could be made to hang or overwrite files as the administrator.

New Red Hat Product Security OpenPGP key
Get serious about consumer data protection
Ohio Man Sentenced to 15 Years for BEC Scam
Augusta Health Center Reveals Historic Breach

LinuxSecurity.com: Dariusz Tytko, Michal Sajdak and Qualys Security discovered that OpenSSH, an implementation of the SSH protocol suite, was prone to a user enumeration vulnerability. This would allow a remote attacker to check whether a specific user account existed on the target server.

LinuxSecurity.com: New libX11 packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for mutt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 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,

LinuxSecurity.com: wpa_supplicant and hostapd could be made to expose sensitiveinformation if it received a crafted message.

Corporate pre-crime: The ethics of using AI to identify future insider threats
UK hacking prosecutions plummet with only 47 charges recorded last year

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 10.

LinuxSecurity.com: USN-3742-2 introduced regressions in the Linux Hardware Enablement(HWE) kernel for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2439

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2462

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2526

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2526

LinuxSecurity.com: ClamAV, an anti-virus utility for Unix, has released the version 0.100.1. Installing this new version is required to make use of all current virus signatures and to avoid warnings.

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LinuxSecurity.com: An attacker could trick APT into installing altered packages.

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 one vulnerability and has two fixes is now available.

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

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

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

Security Technologies: Stack Smashing Protection (StackGuard)

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for openstack-keystone is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 (Pike). Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for openvswitch is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 (Pike). Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple researchers have discovered a vulnerability in the way the Intel processor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions in combination with handling of page-faults. This flaw could allow an attacker controlling an unprivileged process to read

The Rise of Bespoke Ransomware
Australian Teen Hacked Apple Network

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for rh-postgresql95-postgresql is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

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LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2018-14767 Fix for missing input validation, which could result in denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Jetty, a Java servlet engine and webserver which could result in HTTP request smuggling. For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in

LinuxSecurity.com: New upstream release fixing YSA-2018-03 (#1613863)

LinuxSecurity.com: New upstream release fixing YSA-2018-03 (#1613863)

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

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

The state of cybersecurity at small organizations
The 5 Challenges of Detecting Fileless Malware Attacks
AI in cybersecurity: what works and what doesn’t
Mastering email security with DMARC, SPF and DKIM

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LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Mutt, a text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading, potentially leading to code execution, denial of service or information disclosure when connecting to a malicious mail/NNTP server.