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Kids’ gaming website Animal Jam breached after miscreants spot private AWS key on pwned Slack channel
Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixes 17 critical flaws, Windows zero‑day

The second Tuesday of the month brings another fresh batch of fixes for security vulnerabilities in various Microsoft products The post Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixes 17 critical flaws, Windows zero‑day appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Why you should keep your Netflix password to yourself

Sharing is caring – except when it isn’t. Here’s why you shouldn’t share your password for online media services with other people. The post Why you should keep your Netflix password to yourself appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Bugs in Critical Infrastructure Gear Allow Sophisticated Cyberattacks
UK Conservative Party used 10 million people’s names to derive their country of origin, ethnicity and religion according to ICO report
Microsoft says it’s time for you to stop using SMS and voice calls for multi-factor authentication
2 More Google Chrome Zero-Days Under Active Exploitation
From Triton to Stuxnet: Preparing for OT Incident Response

An update that solves 53 vulnerabilities, contains 14 features and has 5 fixes is now available.

Swiss spies knew about Crypto AG compromise – and kept it from govt overseers for nearly 30 years
Enhancing internet and cloud security with Red Hat’s contribution the Guide to IPsec VPNs

libmaxminddb could be made to crash if it received specially crafted data.

USN-4171-1 introduced a regression in Apport.

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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

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

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

Ransomware gang takes out Facebook ads to apply pressure on victim
Smashing Security podcast #204: Green buttons, Olympic attacks, and… an apology
Samsung finally admitted to Google’s Enterprise Android Recommended club

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Microsoft warns against SMS, voice calls for multi-factor authentication: Try something that can’t be SIM swapped
Silver Peak SD-WAN Bugs Allow for Network Takeover

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Nvidia Warns Windows Gamers of GeForce NOW Flaw
Ragnar Locker Ransomware Gang Takes Out Facebook Ads in Key New Tactic
Minecraft Apps on Google Play Fleece Players Out of Big Money
Try to avoid thinking of the internet as a flashy new battlefield, warns former NCSC chief
High-Severity Cisco DoS Flaw Can Immobilize ASR Routers
Now-patched Ubuntu desktop vulnerability allows privilege escalation
COVID-19 Data-Sharing App Leaked Healthcare Worker Info

Several security issues were fixed in Intel Microcode.

Windows users told to patch now after active zero-day attacks disclosed by Google

raptor2 could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

4 steps to DevSecOps in your software supply chain
GNAP: OAuth the next generation

An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that solves 18 vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes 18 vulnerabilities is now available.

Europe clamps down on cybersurveillance exports, pushes human rights focus
Microsoft emits 112 security hole fixes – including the cure for a Google-disclosed kernel vuln exploited in the wild
Microsoft Patch Tuesday Update Fixes 17 Critical Bugs

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Colossal Intel Update Anchored by Critical Privilege-Escalation Bugs
Scalper-Bots Shake Down Desperate PS5, Xbox Series X Shoppers

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Radio Frequency fingerprinting of aircraft ADS-B transmitters? Boffins reckon they’ve cracked it
One more reason for Apple to dump Intel processors: Another SGX, kernel data-leak flaw unearthed by experts
Apple to Deliver ‘Privacy Labels’ for Apps, Revealing Data-Sharing Details
Data on millions of hotel guests exposed in cloud storage leak

The cache of data sitting wide open on a server included full names, national ID numbers and credit card data The post Data on millions of hotel guests exposed in cloud storage leak appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

EA Games’ Origin client contained privilege escalation vuln that anyone with user-grade access could exploit
Ghimob Android Banking Trojan Targets 153 Mobile Apps

The ppp de-capsulator in tcpdump 4.9.3 can be convinced to allocate a large amount of memory. The buffer should be big enough to hold the captured data, but it

It was discovered that ZeroMQ, a lightweight messaging kernel library does not properly handle connecting peers before a handshake is completed. A remote, unauthenticated client connecting to an application using the libzmq library, running with a socket

Microsoft Teams Users Under Attack in ‘FakeUpdates’ Malware Campaign

Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.

Fabian Vogt discovered a flaw in sddm before 0.19.0. A local attacker can take advantage of a race condition when creating the Xauthority file to escalate privileges (CVE-2020-28049). References:

Lout 3.40 has a buffer overflow in the StringQuotedWord() function in z39.c. (CVE-2019-19917) Lout 3.40 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the srcnext() function in z02.c. (CVE-2019-19918)

ACL restrictions bypass. (CVE-2020-25654) References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27472 – https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/10/27/1

Tim Berners-Lee asks everyone to do new biz a Solid and let him have another crack at fixing the Web’s privacy
Laptop mega-manufacturer Compal hit by DoppelPaymer ransomware – same one that hit German hospital
Millions of hotel guests worldwide have their private details exposed
Zoom strong-armed by US watchdog to beef up security after boasting of end-to-end encryption that didn’t exist
Trump Site Alleging AZ Election Fraud Exposes Voter Data

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Cyberattack on UVM Health Network Impedes Chemotherapy Appointments
Ultimate Member Plugin for WordPress Allows Site Takeover
RansomEXX trojan variant is being deployed against Linux systems, warns Kaspersky
Microsoft Exchange Attack Exposes New xHunt Backdoors
Somebody’s Russian to meddle with UK coronavirus vaccine efforts, but GCHQ won’t take it lying down
Millions of Hotel Guests Worldwide Caught Up in Mass Data Leak
Campari staggers to its feet following $15 million Ragnar Locker ransomware attack

An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

It was discovered that Docker could be made to expose sensitive information when processing URLs in container image manifests. A remote attacker could use this to trick the user and obtain the user’s registry credentials (CVE-2020-15157).

An update that solves 18 vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

An update that solves one vulnerability and has 35 fixes is now available.

Chinese hacking competition cracks Chrome, ESXi, Windows 10, iOS 14, Galaxy 20, Qemu, and more
Hackers work 24 hours a day – when will you schedule your security training?

SFD_GetFontMetaData() insufficient CVE-2020-5395 backport. (CVE-2020-25690) References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27563 – https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4844

The latest release of mariadb fixes some undisclosed easily exploitable vulnerabilities. (CVE-2020-14765, CVE-2020-14776, CVE-2020-14789 and CVE-2020-14812). Additionally some bugs are fixed:

It was discovered that junit contained a local information disclosure vulnerability. On Unix like systems, the system’s temporary directory is shared between all users on that system. Because of this, when files and directories are written into this directory they are, by default, readable by other users on that same system. This vulnerability does not […]

Vaisha Bernard discovered that blueman did not properly sanitize input on the D-Bus interface to blueman-mechanism. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges and run arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (CVE-2020-15238).

The suricata package has been updated to version 4.1.9, which fixes security issues and other bugs. See the upstream announcements for details. References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27475

An XSS Vulnerability exists in Webmin 1.941 and earlier affecting the Cluster Shell Commands Endpoint. A user may enter any XSS Payload into the Command field and execute it. Then, after revisiting the Cluster Shell Commands Menu, the XSS Payload will be rendered and executed. (CVE-2020-8820)

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In libexif/exif-entry.c, through libexif 0.6.21-2+deb9u4, compiler optimization could remove a buffer overflow check, making a buffer overflow possible with some EXIF tags.

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has 7 fixes is now available.

It was discovered that raptor2, an RDF parser library, is prone to heap-based buffer overflow flaws, which could result in denial of service, or potentially the execution of arbitrary code, if a specially crafted file is processed.

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Let’s Encrypt warns about a third of Android devices will from next year stumble over sites that use its certs
WordPress Sites Open to Code Injection Attacks via Welcart e-Commerce Bug
Feds Seize $1B in Bitcoin from Silk Road
Campari Site Suffers Ransomware Hangover
Gitpaste-12 Worm Targets Linux Servers, IoT Devices
Ransomware crims read our bank balance and demanded the lot, reveals Scotland’s Dundee and Angus College