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Atheists warn followers of unholy data leak, hint dark deeds may have tried to make it go away
Microsoft admits some Azure, Exchange, Intune source code snaffled in SolarWinds schemozzle
Cybercriminal Enterprise ‘Ringleaders’ Stole $55M Via COVID-19 Fraud, Romance Scams
Apple Outlines 2021 Security, Privacy Roadmap

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Kia Motors Hit With $20M Ransomware Attack – Report

Multiple security issues were found in PHP, a widely-used open source general purpose scripting language which could result in denial of service, information disclosure, cookie forgery or incorrect encryption.

Just 2.6% of 2019’s 18,000 tracked vulnerabilities were actively exploited in the wild
Exploit Details Emerge for Unpatched Microsoft Bug
Malware authors already taking aim at Apple M1 Macs

The first instance of malicious code native to Apple Silicon M1 Macs emerged a month after the release of devices equipped with the company’s in-house CPUs The post Malware authors already taking aim at Apple M1 Macs appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Mac Malware Targets Apple’s In-House M1 Processor
US charges North Korean hackers in relation to WannaCry, Sony Pictures attack, and an attempt to steal more than a billion dollars from banks
SDK Bug Lets Attackers Spy on User’s Video Calls Across Dating, Healthcare Apps

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in QEMU, a fast processor emulator (notably used in KVM and Xen HVM virtualization). An attacker could trigger a denial-of-service (DoS), information leak, and possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the QEMU

Nurserycam horror show: ‘Secure’ daycare video monitoring product beamed DVR admin creds to all users

An update for xterm 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

Has your cloud app suite left you feeling insecure? There’s a reason for that
Cred-stealing trojan harvests logins from Chromium browsers, Outlook and more, warns Cisco Talos

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Breaking news: Facebook breaks news (and other pages) for Australian users
An appearance on the “Engage” podcast
Smashing Security podcast #215: Sexy cows banned on Facebook
Uncle Sam accuses three suspected North Korean govt hackers of stealing $1.3bn+ from banks, crypto orgs
Stolen Jones Day Law Firm Files Posted on Dark Web
Windows, Linux Devices Hijacked In Two-Year Cryptojacking Campaign

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You’ve got millions of open-source software components to choose from… and so do cybercriminals
Ninja Forms WordPress Plugin Bug Opens Websites to Hacks
U.S. Accuses North Korean Hackers of Stealing Millions
Masslogger Swipes Microsoft Outlook, Google Chrome Credentials
You don’t have clearance for that: Microsoft ups the paranoia with a preview of Azure Firewall Premium
Details Tied to Safari Browser-based ‘ScamClub’ Campaign Revealed
Think your backups will protect you from ransomware? What do you think the malware attacked first?
Soviet ‘Enigma’ cipher machine sells for $22k at collapsed museum’s exhibits auction
Open-Source Kernel Security Technologies>
Palo Alto Networks drops $156m to absorb DevSecOps firm Bridgecrew

An update is now available for Red Hat Decision Manager. 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

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL, a Secure Sockets Layer toolkit. An overflow bug in the x64_64 Montgomery squaring procedure, an integer overflow in CipherUpdate and a NULL pointer dereference flaw X509_issuer_and_serial_hash() were found, which could

An update is now available for Red Hat Process Automation Manager. 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

Attacks targeting IT firms stir concern, controversy

The Exaramel backdoor, discovered by ESET in 2018, resurfaces in a campaign hitting companies that use an outdated version of a popular IT monitoring tool The post Attacks targeting IT firms stir concern, controversy appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

* Bring back the WebKitPluginProcess that was removed by mistake. (It will disappear again soon.) * Fix RunLoop objects leaked in worker threads. * Use Internet Explorer quirk for Google Docs. (Yes, even this new quirk is broken already.) * Security fixes: CVE-2020-13558

**Release 1.4.11** – Display a nice error informing about no PHP8 support – Elastic: Fix compatibility with Less v3 and v4 (#7813) – Fix bug with managesieve_domains in Settings > Forwarding form (#7849) – Fix errors in MSSQL database update scripts (#7853) – **Security**: Fix cross-site scripting (XSS) via HTML messages with malicious CSS content

New upstream release 2.0.25

LastPass to limit fans of free password manager to one device type only – computer or mobile – from next month
Complaint Blasts TikTok’s ‘Misleading’ Privacy Policies
Let’s Encrypt Gears Up to Replace 200M Certificates a Day
DDoS Attacks Wane in Q4 Amid Cryptomining Resurgence

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SHAREit app for Android said to share way too much: Billion-download code with holes no one wants to fix

Most people would categorically agree that increased privacy online is a good thing. But in practice, questions of privacy online are a bit more complex. In recent months, you’ve likely heard about DNS over HTTPS, also known as DNS 2.0 and DoH, which is a method that uses the HTTPS protocol to encrypt DNS requests, […]

Romance scams in 2020: Breaking hearts, wallets – and records

As dating apps experience a boom amid COVID-19, losses to romance scams soar too The post Romance scams in 2020: Breaking hearts, wallets – and records appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Record‑breaking number of vulnerabilities reported in 2020

High-severity and critical bugs disclosed in 2020 outnumber the sum total of vulnerabilities reported 10 years prior The post Record‑breaking number of vulnerabilities reported in 2020 appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Misconfigured Baby Monitors Allow Unauthorized Viewing
Microsoft Pulls Bad Windows Update After Patch Tuesday Headaches
Unpatched Android App with 1 Billion Downloads Threatens Spying, Malware
Member Profile: My Expedition Through nmap Lab How to get through the NMAP room in Tryhackme >
Linux 5.11 is out with AMD and Intel improvements (and Linus Torvalds is happy)>
Microsoft Azure and Canonical Ubuntu Linux have a user privacy problem>
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Beware of COVID‑19 vaccine scams and misinformation

The vaccination push provides a vital shot in the arm for the world’s battle against the pandemic, but it’s also a topic ripe for exploitation by fraudsters and purveyors of misinformation The post Beware of COVID‑19 vaccine scams and misinformation appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

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An update for the nodejs:12 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

An update for kernel 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 the nodejs:10 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

An update for nss is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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 the container-tools:rhel8 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

France’s cyber-agency says Centreon IT management software sabotaged by Russian Sandworm
Cybercrooks Rake in $304M in Romance Scams
Could an ex-employee be planting ransomware on your firm’s network?
NurseryCam has serious security issues, claims researcher
UK watchdog fines two firms £270k for cold-calling 531,000 people who had opted out

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Let’s Encrypt completes huge upgrade, can now rip and replace 200 million security certs in ‘worst case scenario’

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Busybox, utility programs for small and embedded systems, was affected by several security vulnerabilities. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues.

Joakim Hindersson discovered that Open vSwitch, a software-based Ethernet virtual switch, allowed a malicious user to cause a denial-of-service by sending a specially crafted packet.

Microsoft says it found 1,000-plus developers’ fingerprints on the SolarWinds attack

An update for the subversion:1.10 module 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 the subversion:1.10 module 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,

The 5.10.15 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. —- The 5.10.14 stable kernel updates contain a number of important fixes across the tree.

The 5.10.15 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

xterm through Patch #365 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted UTF-8 character sequence.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Thomas Akesson discovered a remotely triggerable vulnerability in the mod_authz_svn module in Subversion, a version control system. When using in-repository authz rules with the AuthzSVNReposRelativeAccessFile option an unauthenticated remote client can take advantage of this flaw

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Supermicro spy chips, the sequel: It really, really happened, and with bad BIOS and more, insists Bloomberg
mHealth Apps Expose Millions to Cyberattacks

Update to Zypper 1.14.42 and libzypp 17.25.6 to remediate CVE-2017-9271

Update to Zypper 1.14.42 and libzypp 17.25.6 to remediate CVE-2017-9271

CVE-2021-3281: Potential directory-traversal via archive.extract()

Yandex Data Breach Exposes 4K+ Email Accounts
‘Annoyingly Believable’ Tax Scam Targets Mobile Users
Dev creeped out after he fired up Ubuntu VM on Azure, was immediately approached by Canonical sales rep
Singtel Suffers Zero-Day Cyberattack, Damage Unknown
Protecting the water supply – hacker edition

What can municipalities do to better protect their water supply systems? The post Protecting the water supply – hacker edition appeared first on WeLiveSecurity