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Warehouse belonging to Chinese payment terminal manufacturer raided by FBI
Protonmail celebrates Swiss court victory exempting it from telco data retention laws
Singaporean minister touts internet ‘kill switch’ that finds kids reading net nasties and cuts ’em off ASAP
China Telecom booted out of USA as Feds worry it could disrupt or spy on local networks
SquirrelWaffle Loader Malspams, Packing Qakbot, Cobalt Strike
Public Clouds & Shared Responsibility: Lessons from Vulnerability Disclosure

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These couldn’t wait for Patch Tuesday: Adobe issues bonus fixes for 92 security holes in 14 products
Lazarus Attackers Turn to the IT Supply Chain
Why the Next-Generation of Application Security Is Needed
Attackers Hijack Craigslist Emails to Bypass Security, Deliver Malware
Mozilla Firefox Blocks Malicious Add-Ons Installed by 455K Users

An update is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

Millions of Android Users Scammed in SMS Fraud Driven by Tik-Tok Ads

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.9.4 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements. This release includes a security update for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.9.

Matrix for the masses platform Element One goes live: $5 a month with WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram bridges

An update that fixes 16 vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available.

Ransomware gang outraged at “bandit-mugging behavior of the United States” after REvil group pushed offline

Several security issues were fixed in libslirp.

Apport could be made to create files as the administrator.

DDoSers take weekend off only to resume campaign against UK’s Voipfone on Monday
Man who “scraped and sold 178 million users’ data” is sued by Facebook
GCHQ director outlines plan to ‘go after’ links between ransomware crims and state actors
If you’re using this hijacked NPM library anywhere in your software stack, read this
Defending Assets You Don’t Know About, Against Cyberattacks
Groove Calls for Cyberattacks on US as REvil Payback
BQE Web Suite Billing App Rigged to Inflict Ransomware
SolarWinds APT Targets Tech Resellers in Latest Supply-Chain Cyberattacks
There’s a wave of ransomware coming down the pipeline. What can you do about it?
Ransomware criminals have feelings too: BlackMatter abuse caused crims to shut down negotiation portal

Google Chromebook devices could rightly be called a game-changer for education. These low-cost laptops are within financial reach for far more families than their more expensive competitors, a fact that proved crucial with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic at the beginning of last year. During that period, Google donated more than 4,000 Chromebook devices […]

CISA Urges Sites to Patch Critical RCE in Discourse

An update for redis is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens). Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 5.10.75 and fixes atleast the following security issues: A memory leak in the ccp_run_aes_gcm_cmd() function in drivers/crypto/ ccp/ccp-ops.c in the Linux kernel allows malicious users to cause a

This kernel update is based on upstream 5.10.75 and fixes atleast the following security issues: A memory leak in the ccp_run_aes_gcm_cmd() function in drivers/crypto/ ccp/ccp-ops.c in the Linux kernel allows malicious users to cause a

SolarWinds attacker on the move: Russia’s Nobelium crew has trebled attacks targeting MSPs, cloud resellers, says Microsoft
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Several security issues were fixed in GNU binutils.

HIV Scotland fined £10,000 for BCC email blunder identifying names of virus-carriers’ patient-advocates

Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.

An update that solves 6 vulnerabilities and has four fixes is now available.

Online harms don’t need dangerous legislation, they need a spot of naval action
Facebook sues scraper who sold 178 million phone numbers and user IDs
Cleanup on aisle C: Tesco app back online after attack led to shopping app outages

This update provides the upstream 6.1.28 maintenance release that fixes atleast the following security vulnerabilities: Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox prior to 6.1.28 contains an easily exploitable vulnerability that allows high privileged attacker with

Several issues have been found in faad2, a freeware Advanced Audio Decoder player. They are related to heap buffer overflows or null pointer dereferences, which both might allow an attacker to execute code by

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Do not include params in exception when a call to set_options fails. Additionally, block the exception that is returned from being displayed to stdout. (CVE-2021-3620) References:

Flatpak apps with direct access to AF_UNIX sockets such as those used by Wayland, Pipewire or pipewire-pulse can trick portals and other host-OS services into treating the Flatpak app as though it was an ordinary, non-sandboxed host-OS process, by manipulating the VFS using recent mount-related syscalls that are not blocked by Flatpak’s denylist seccomp

A vulnerability in the JNDI Realm of Apache Tomcat allows an attacker to authenticate using variations of a valid user name and/or to bypass some of the protection provided by the LockOut Realm. (CVE-2021-30640) Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.6, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.46 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.66

A bug was found in containerd where pulling and extracting a specially-crafted container image can result in Unix file permission changes for existing files in the host’s filesystem. Changes to file permissions can deny access to the expected owner of the file, widen access to others, or set extended bits like setuid, setgid, and sticky.

Security fix for CVE-2021-39360

## 2021-10-12, Version 14.18.1 ‘Fermium’ (LTS), @danielleadams This is a security release. ### Notable changes * **CVE-2021-22959**: HTTP Request Smuggling due to spaced in headers (Medium) * The http parser accepts requests with a space (SP) right after the header name before the colon. This can lead to HTTP Request Smuggling (HRS). More details will […]

Remote access has helped us become more interconnected than ever before. In the United States alone, two months into the pandemic, approximately 35% of the workforce was teleworking. The growth of remote access allowed individuals to work with organizations and teams they don’t physically see or meet. However, the demand for remote access has critical […]

FIN7 Lures Unwitting Security Pros to Carry Out Ransomware Attacks

The package nodejs-lts-erbium before version 12.22.7-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary code execution, url request injection and certificate verification bypass.

The package nodejs-lts-fermium before version 14.18.1-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary code execution, url request injection and certificate verification bypass.

The package nodejs before version 16.11.1-1 is vulnerable to url request injection.

Better late than never: Microsoft rolls out a public preview of E2EE in Teams calls
REvil Servers Shoved Offline by Governments – But They’ll Be Back, Researchers Say
Cybersecurity careers: What to know and how to get started

Want to help make technology safer for everyone? Love solving puzzles? Looking for a rewarding career? Break into cybersecurity! Insights from ESET researchers Aryeh Goretsky and Cameron Camp will put you on the right track. The post Cybersecurity careers: What to know and how to get started appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Recycled Cobalt Strike key pairs show many crooks are using same cloned installation
Donald Trump’s Truth Social account posts a picture of a pig defecating
Cisco SD-WAN Security Bug Allows Root Code Execution
Recorded Future Identity Intelligence prevents identity fraud and disrupts attackers – learn more now
Romance scam suspects rounded up in South Africa after 100 women targeted
Threat Actors Abuse Discord to Push Malware
Unhappy customers and their own tricks used against them, REvil ransomware gang reportedly pulled offline by ‘multi-country’ operations
How your phone, laptop, or watch can be tracked by their Bluetooth transmissions
YouTubers fell for shady ‘sponsors’ who seized, then sold, accounts

Several security issues were fixed in Mailman.

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

U.S. Ban on Sales of Cyberattack Tools Is Anemic, Experts Warn
TA551 Shifts Tactics to Install Sliver Red-Teaming Tool
Gigabyte Allegedly Hit by AvosLocker Ransomware
US Government warns of BlackMatter ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure
We regret to inform you there’s an RCE vuln in old version of WinRAR. Yes, the file decompression utility
Why is Cybersecurity Failing Against Ransomware?

fix memory leak when verbose mode is on

Security fix for CVE-2021-3618

Ransomware Sinks Teeth into Candy-Corn Maker Ahead of Halloween

libcaca could be made to crash if it received a specially crafted image.

Research finds consumer-grade IoT devices showing up… on corporate networks

Tenable discovered that in Babel, a set of tools for internationalizing Python applications, Babel.Locale allows attackers to load arbitrary locale .dat files (containing serialized Python objects) via directory traversal, leading to code execution. This

What is self-learning AI and how does it tackle ransomware?

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:

Smashing Security podcast #248: Press F12 to hack
Uncle Sam to clip wings of Pegasus-like spyware – sorry, ‘intrusion software’ – with proposed export controls
Brave browser replaces Google with its own search engine

Brave Search will become the default search option for new users in the US, UK, Canada, Germany and France, with more countries to follow soon The post Brave browser replaces Google with its own search engine appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

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Google Crushes YouTube Cookie-Stealing Channel Hijackers
We don’t want to be critical, but humans alone aren’t enough to protect your ICS
VPN Exposes Data for 1M Users, Leading to Researcher Questioning
A recipe for failure: Predictably poor passwords

Security professionals advise to never use ‘beef stew’ as a password. It just isn’t stroganoff. The post A recipe for failure: Predictably poor passwords appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Geriatric Microsoft Bug Exploited by APT Using Commodity RATs
Not just deprecated, but deleted: Google finally strips File Transfer Protocol code from Chrome browser