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The developer of popular video game franchises took swift action to prevent the attack from spreading further across its systems The post Gaming company Capcom hit by cyberattack appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Reading Time: ~ 2 min. Maze Ransomware Group Ends Operations A press release issued this week announced the end of the Maze ransomware group’s data theft operations. In the release, the Maze authors revealed their motives behind one of the most successful ransomware campaigns to date, and why they chose to finally shut down their […]
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in WordPress, a web blogging tool. They allowed remote attackers to run insecure deserialization, embed spam, perform various Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) or Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks, escalate privileges, run arbitrary
netqmail could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.
Update to CVE release 3001.3-1 for Python3 Includes fixes for CVE-2020-16846, CVE-2020-17490, CVE-2020-25592
Fix executable hardening (PIC/PIE)
Update to v2.1.4. Contains security fix for CVE-2020-15238.
Update to Chromium 86. A few big things here: 1. Upstream has made hardware accelerated video support (VAAPI) for Linux possible without patches. One key difference is that the patchset used previously in Fedora enabled it by default and upstream’s approach disables it by default. To enable Hardware accelerated video in chromium, open this link […]
An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has 6 fixes is now available.
An update that fixes 7 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 fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.
Reading Time: ~ 2 min. Adobe Flash Being Uninstalled on Windows Systems Following its September announcement, Microsoft has released an update that removes Adobe Flash from Windows 10 systems and prevents reinstallation. It should be noted that this update only removes the version of Adobe Flash that comes bundled with Windows 10. Internet browser extensions […]
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There’s no shortage of opportunities for cybersecurity professionals and people looking to break into this field of endeavor. Could this also be the right career path for you? The post A career in cybersecurity: Is it for you? appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has 6 fixes is now available.
Reading Time: ~ 3 min. Mobile devices have become an indispensable part of our lives. By the time we’re teenagers, we’re already tethered to technology that lives in our pockets and connects us to a network far larger than we ever imagined possible. Because of the way we interact with our phones, it knows our […]
An update for xorg-x11-server 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,
An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and 8. 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 is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3. 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 that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.
An update that fixes 16 vulnerabilities is now available.
The updates come on the heels of news of attacks exploiting another zero-day in Chrome in tandem with a previously-unknown Windows flaw The post Google squashes two more Chrome bugs under active attacks appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
The security hole isn’t expected to be plugged until the forthcoming Patch Tuesday bundle of security fixes The post Google discloses Windows zero‑day bug exploited in the wild appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
python-cryptography could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.
Several security issues were fixed in AccountsService.
GDM could be made to create privileged users.
Vaisha Bernard discovered that Blueman, a graphical bluetooth manager performed insufficient validation on a D-Bus interface, which could result in denial of service or privilege escalation.
There were several vulnerabilites reported against wordpress, as follows: CVE-2020-28032
An update that solves one vulnerability and has two fixes is now available.
Several security issues were fixed in Samba.
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.