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Snowflake software update caused 13-hour outage across 10 regions
Enterprise automation resilience with EDB and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Red Hat to acquire Chatterbox Labs: Frequently Asked Questions
Accelerating NetOps transformation with Ansible Automation Platform
HPE tells customers to patch fast as OneView RCE bug scores a perfect 10

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

Ministers confirm breach at UK Foreign Office but details remain murky
Faith in the internet is fading among young Brits
AI and cybersecurity: Two sides of the same coin

An update that solves four vulnerabilities can now be installed.

PHP version 8.4.16 (18 Dec 2025) Core: Sync all boost.context files with release 1.86.0. (mvorisek) Fixed bug GH-20435 (SensitiveParameter doesn’t work for named argument passing to variadic parameter). (ndossche)

China turns on a vast experimental network it says is an heir to ARPANET
Amazon blocked 1,800 suspected North Korean scammers seeking jobs
Your car’s web browser may be on the road to cyber ruin
Python type checker ty now in beta
Crypto crooks co-opt stolen AWS creds to mine coins
Kim’s crypto thieving reached a record $2B in 2025
Another bad week for SonicWall as SMA 1000 zero-day under active exploit
FBI dismantles alleged $70M crypto laundering operation

It was discovered that c-ares, a library that performs DNS requests and name resolution asynchronously, does not properly handle termination of queries which may result in denial of service. For the stable distribution (trixie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.34.5-1+deb13u1.

NHS tech supplier probes cyberattack on internal systems
React2Shell exploitation spreads as Microsoft counts hundreds of hacked machines
DVSA’s clapped-out booking system gets bot slapped as new boss rides in
UK surveillance law still full of holes, watchdog warns
What’s next for Azure infrastructure
High-performance programming with Java streams
Designing the agent-ready data stack

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 10 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 10 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 10 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 9 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 9 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

JetBrains releases Kotlin 2.3.0
Smashing Security podcast #448: The Kindle that got pwned

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-6083-1

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-6084-1

Attacks pummeling Cisco AsyncOS 0-day since late November
CEO spills the Tea about massive token farming campaigns
ESET Threat Report H2 2025

A view of the H2 2025 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts

Blockchain company Nomad to repay users under FTC deal after $186M cyberattack
PwC on securing AI: building trust, compliance and confidence at scale
NATO’s battle for cloud sovereignty: Speed is existential
Microsoft security updates breaks MSMQ on older Win systems
England keeping pen and paper exams despite limited digital expansion
What developers call themselves
Surveillance at sea: Cruise firm bans smart glasses to curb covert recording
Spring Boot tutorial: Get started with Spring Boot
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An update that solves one vulnerability, contains one feature and has one security fix can now be installed.

Microsoft deprecates IntelliCode for Visual Studio Code

This update includes the latest upstream release of mod_md, with various bug fixes and enhancements. See https://github.com/icing/mod_md/releases for more information. A fix for the security vulnerability CVE-2025-55753 is also included.

Update to 25.4.0

Fix seeking and looping of media elements that set the loop property. Fix several crashes and rendering issues. Fix CVE-2025-13947, CVE-2025-43458, CVE-2025-66287

upstream stable upgrade from 2.41.1 to 2.41.3 (CVE-2025-14104 and other issues)

Backport fix for CVE-2025-11277

China’s Ink Dragon hides out in European government networks
Azul acquires enterprise Java middleware provider Payara
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Amazon security boss blames Russia’s GRU for years-long energy-sector hacks

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-6082-1

China, Iran are having a field day with React2Shell, Google warns
Delay to European Central Bank messaging project cost the Bank of England £23M
JLR: Payroll data stolen in cybercrime that shook UK economy
Apple, Google forced to issue emergency 0-day patches
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Starlink claims Chinese launch came within 200 meters of broadband satellite

Fixed aarch64 crashes Updated to latest upstream (146.0)

Update to 143.0.7499.109 * High: Under coordination * Medium CVE-2025-14372: Use after free in Password Manager * Medium CVE-2025-14373: Inappropriate implementation in Toolbar

Fixed aarch64 crashes Updated to latest upstream (146.0)

ruby-sidekiq, a simple, efficient background processing for Ruby, had a couple of vulnerabilities as follows: CVE-2021-30151 Sidekiq allows XSS via the queue name of the live-poll feature when Internet Explorer is used.

A couple of vulnerabilities were reported against ruby-git, a Ruby interface to the Git revision control system, that could lead to a command injection and execution of an arbitrary ruby code by having a user to load a repository containing a specially crafted filename to the product.

Honeypots can help defenders, or damn them if implemented badly

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the VLC media player, which could result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed video file is opened. For the oldstable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.22-0+deb12u1.

An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Moderate: grafana security update

Introducing the Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant
From incident responder to security steward: My journey to understanding Red Hat’s open approach to vulnerability management

Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code. For the oldstable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in version 1:140.6.0esr-1~deb12u1. For the stable distribution (trixie), these problems have been fixed in

xkbcomp 1.5.0 (CVE-2018-15853, CVE-2018-15859, CVE-2018-15861, CVE-2018-15863)

Fixed CVE-2025-66293 (high severity): Out-of-bounds read in png_image_read_composite. Fixed the Paeth filter handling in the RISC-V RVV implementation. Improved the performance of the RISC-V RVV implementation.

Latest version This build with the latest golang should also fix all the Go CVEs, although I did verify how/if this package is affected by these CVEs.

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-6081-1