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1Password has none, KeePass has none… So why are there seven embedded trackers in the LastPass Android app?
Facebook ramps up fight against child abuse content

Two new tools will warn users about the risks of searching for and sharing content that exploits children, including the potential legal consequences of doing so The post Facebook ramps up fight against child abuse content appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Health Website Leaks 8 Million COVID-19 Test Results
Malicious Mozilla Firefox Extension Allows Gmail Takeover
Google’s Password Checkup tool rolling out to Android devices

People who use devices running Android 9 or newer will be alerted if their login credentials have been stolen The post Google’s Password Checkup tool rolling out to Android devices appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Cisco Warns of Critical Auth-Bypass Security Flaw
Recorded Future’s free Cyber Daily newsletter brings trending threat insights straight to your inbox
UK’s National Cyber Security Centre sidles in to help firm behind hacked NurseryCam product secure itself
Ever felt that a few big tech companies are following you around the internet? That’s because … they are
Defense in depth with Red Hat Insights

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Alexa, swap out this code that Amazon approved for malware… Installed Skills can double-cross their users

Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser, which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code or information disclosure.

The package mumble before version 1.3.4-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution.

The package postgresql before version 13.2-1 is vulnerable to information disclosure.

The package ansible-base before version 2.10.6-1 is vulnerable to information disclosure.

The package keycloak before version 12.0.3-1 is vulnerable to cross- site scripting.

Smashing Security podcast #216: Playboy, prison, and digital ploys – with Garry Kasparov
Tax Season Ushers in Quickbooks Data-Theft Spike
Mozilla Patches Bugs in Firefox, Now Blocks Cross-Site Cookie Tracking
Revealed: The military radar system swiped from aerospace biz, leaked online by Clop ransomware gang
VMWare Patches Critical RCE Flaw in vCenter Server
‘We’re finding bugs way faster than we can fix them’: Google sponsors 2 full-time devs to improve Linux security
Nvidia’s Anti-Cryptomining GPU Chip May Not Discourage Attacks
Microsoft Lures Populate Half of Credential-Swiping Phishing Emails

An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2 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

An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.9 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

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.7.0 is now available. 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

Introducing Red Hat Vulnerability Scanner Certification
The history of open source risk reporting

An update for thunderbird 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

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

Think you know all about security pen-testing in the cloud? Here’s how to prove it
Mozilla Firefox keeps cookies kosher with quarantine scheme, 86s third-party cookies in new browser build
What’s CNAME of your game? This DNS-based tracking defies your browser privacy defenses
Indian Railways suffers unspecified security ‘breaches in various IT applications’
Microsoft president asks Congress to force private-sector orgs to publicly admit when they’ve been hacked
VMware warns of critical remote code execution flaw in vSphere HTML5 client
They break into your network but do nothing themselves: ‘Initial access brokers’ resell stolen creds for $7k a pop
Clop ransomware gang leaks online what looks like stolen Bombardier blueprints of GlobalEye radar snoop jet
Daycare Webcam Service Exposes 12,000 User Accounts  
IBM Squashes Critical Remote Code-Execution Flaw
Clubhouse chats streamed to third‑party website

The incident raises concerns about the privacy and security of conversations taking place on the platform The post Clubhouse chats streamed to third‑party website appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Finnish IT Giant Hit with Ransomware Cyberattack
10K Microsoft Email Users Hit in FedEx Phishing Attack
Linux Mint users in hot water for being slow with security updates, running old versions
NurseryCam suffers data breach after security concerns raised
The perils of non-disclosure? China ‘cloned and used’ NSA zero-day exploit for years before it was made public

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

TDoS Attacks Take Aim at Emergency First-Responder Services
Chinese Hackers Hijacked NSA-Linked Hacking Tool: Report

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Assume Clubhouse Conversations Are Being Recorded, Researchers Warn
Brave browser’s Tor mode exposed users’ dark web activity

A bug in the ad blocking component of Brave’s Tor feature caused the browser to leak users’ DNS queries The post Brave browser’s Tor mode exposed users’ dark web activity appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

gdk-pixbuf2 2.42.2 release, fixing CVE-2021-20240 and CVE-2020-29385. This update also includes new gdk-pixbuf2-xlib package that was split out from gdk- pixbuf2 to its own source rpm. The gdk-pixbuf2-xlib and gdk-pixbuf2-xlib-devel binary package names are identical to what they were before the split.

gdk-pixbuf2 2.42.2 release, fixing CVE-2021-20240 and CVE-2020-29385. This update also includes new gdk-pixbuf2-xlib package that was split out from gdk- pixbuf2 to its own source rpm. The gdk-pixbuf2-xlib and gdk-pixbuf2-xlib-devel binary package names are identical to what they were before the split.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Happy birthday, Python, you’re 30 years old this week: Easy to learn, and the right tool at the right time

The package python-django before version 3.1.7-1 is vulnerable to url request injection.

The package roundcubemail before version 1.4.11-1 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting.

Accellion FTA Zero-Day Attacks Show Ties to Clop Ransomware, FIN11
NurseryCam hacked, company shuts down IoT camera service
Planespotters’ weekends turn traumatic as engine pieces fall from the sky in the Netherlands and the US

xterm: crash when processing combining characters (CVE-2021-27135) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE SL7 x86_64 xterm-295-3.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm xterm-debuginfo-295-3.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm – Scientific Linux Development Team

Brave browser leaks visited Tor .onion addresses in DNS traffic, fix released after bug hunter raises alarm

An update for xterm 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

An update for stunnel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

An update for stunnel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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

An update for stunnel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

Malware monsters target Apple’s M1 silicon with ‘Silver Sparrow’

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Felix Weinmann reported a flaw in the handling of combining characters in screen, a terminal multiplexer with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation, which can result in denial of service, or potentially the execution of arbitrary code via a specially crafted UTF-8 character sequence.

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Introducing Crowdsec: A Modernized, Collaborative Massively Multiplayer Firewall for Linux>

This is the update to .NET 5.0 SDK 5.0.103 and Runtime 5.0.3. This includes fixes for CVE-2021-1721 and CVE-2021-24112

A vulnerability in the Certificate List Exact Assertion validation was discovered in OpenLDAP, a free implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. An unauthenticated remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service (slapd

It was discovered that zstd, a compression utility, was vulnerable to a race condition: it temporarily exposed, during a very short timeframe, a world-readable version of its input even if the original file had restrictive permissions.

Happy birthday, Python, you’re 30 years old today: Easy to learn, and the right tool at the right time

An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

A vulnerability in the Certificate List Exact Assertion validation was discovered in OpenLDAP, a free implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. An unauthenticated remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service (slapd daemon crash)

An issue has been found in wpa, a set of tools to support WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i). Missing validation of data can result in a buffer over-write, which might

It was discovered that zstd, a compression utility, was vulnerable to a race condition: it temporarily exposed, during a very short timeframe, a world-readable version of its input even if the original file had restrictive permissions.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2021-21148

Malformed URL Prefix Phishing Attacks Spike 6,000%

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Mysterious Silver Sparrow Malware Found Nesting on 30K Macs
Credential-Stuffing Attack Targets Regional Internet Registry

For most small businesses, the chances of falling prey to a long-term covert surveillance operation by well-resourced, likely state-backed actors are slim. To recap, that is what the evidence suggests happened in the SolarWinds compromise discovered last December. Many believe the company’s Orion update was used to conduct cyber espionage for months prior to being […]

Buzzwords and acronyms abound in the MSP industry, an unfortunate byproduct of marketing years in the making. Cybersecurity is a hot watercooler topic at any business. Well, now probably more likely a virtual happy hour than a watercooler, but nevertheless cybersecurity remains top-of-mind. To sleep at night, MSPs feel they must enhance or expand their […]

Microsoft: SolarWinds Attackers Downloaded Azure, Exchange Code

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Alex Birnberg discovered a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Horde Application Framework, more precisely its Text Filter API. An attacker could take control of a user’s mailbox by sending a crafted e-mail.

Fixed a memory leak when decompression fails “unexpectedly”. (CVE-2021-20216) Prevent an assertion from getting triggered by a crafted CGI request. (CVE-2021-20217) References:

IDRIX, Truecrypt Veracrypt, Truecrypt Prior to 1.23-Hotfix-1 (Veracrypt), all versions (Truecrypt) is affected by a Buffer Overflow that can lead to information disclosure of kernel stack through a locally executed code with IOCTL request to driver (CVE-2019-1010208).

When sending a CONNECT request with the XOR-PEER-ADDRESS value of 0.0.0.0, a malicious user would be able to relay packets to the loopback interface. Additionally, when coturn is listening on IPv6, which is default, the loopback interface can also be reached by making use of either [::1] or [::] as the peer address (CVE-2020-26262).

In MediaWiki before 1.31.11, the messages userrights-expiry-current and userrights-expiry-none can contain raw HTML. XSS can happen when a user visits Special:UserRights but does not have rights to change all userrights, and the table on the left side has unchangeable groups in it. The right column with the changeable groups is not affected and is escaped […]

Atheists warn followers of unholy data leak, hint dark deeds may have tried to make it go away