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Meet the new aviation insecurity, same as the old aviation insecurity: Next-gen ACAS X just as vulnerable to spoofing as its predecessor
Insurance firm Ardonagh Group disabled 200 admin accounts as ransomware infection took hold
Former antivirus baron John McAfee collared, faces extradition to America on tax evasion, securities allegations
John McAfee arrested on US tax evasion charges
Post Grid WordPress Plugin Flaws Allow Site Takeovers
UEFI malware rears ugly head again: Kaspersky uncovers campaign with whiff of China
Black-T Malware Emerges From Cryptojacker Group TeamTNT
Malware Families Turn to Legit Pastebin-Like Service
Rare Bootkit Malware Targets North Korea-Linked Diplomats
Hackers can rip open your company with AI… But AI can help you fight back
Tenda Router Zero-Days Emerge in Spyware Botnet Campaign
See me keynote at the (ISC)² Security Congress in November 2020
Video-Game Piracy Group ‘Team Xecuter’ Leaders in Custody

An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Brotli could be made to crash if it received a specially crafted input.

Fix PAC buffer overflow

Update to 85.0.4183.121. Why? Because security, that’s why. It fixes these CVEs: CVE-2020-15960 CVE-2020-15961 CVE-2020-15962 CVE-2020-15963 CVE-2020-15964 CVE-2020-15965 CVE-2020-15966 It also has a fix for an issue where networking… uh… didn’t.

Mumble 1.3.2. === Client * Fixed: Overlay not starting (#4282) Server * Fixed: keychain-error on macOS for custom certificates (#4345) Known issues * Overlay blocked by BattleEye. A request to whitelist it has been made. * Overlay blocked by CS:GO Trusted Mode

UK loses 16,000 COVID-19 cases due to Excel spreadsheet snafu
Big IQ play from IT outsourcer: Can’t create batch files if you can’t save files. Of any kind
Google warns of security holes in other vendors’ Android phones

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Grindr security hole made it easy to hijack accounts

An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that solves 10 vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Security fixes for CVE-2020-1472

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Imagine running a dating app and being told accounts could be easily hijacked. How did that feel, Grindr?

An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

And you thought Fuzzilli was a pasta… Google offers up $50k in cloud credits to fuzz the hell out of JavaScript engines

Update to 85.0.4183.121. Why? Because security, that’s why. It fixes these CVEs: CVE-2020-15960 CVE-2020-15961 CVE-2020-15962 CVE-2020-15963 CVE-2020-15964 CVE-2020-15965 CVE-2020-15966 It also has a fix for an issue where networking… uh… didn’t. —- Update Chromium to 85.0.4183.102. Fix issue where unpackaged components prevented hardware accelerated rendering from

Mumble 1.3.2. === Client * Fixed: Overlay not starting (#4282) Server * Fixed: keychain-error on macOS for custom certificates (#4345) Known issues * Overlay blocked by BattleEye. A request to whitelist it has been made. * Overlay blocked by CS:GO Trusted Mode

Egregor Ransomware Threatens ‘Mass-Media’ Release of Corporate Data
Voter Registration ‘Error’ Phish Hits During U.S. Election Frenzy
Account Takeover Fraud Losses Total Billions Across Online Retailers

It was found that SNMP Trap Translator does not drop privileges as configured and does not properly escape shell commands in certain functions. A remote attacker, by sending a malicious crafted SNMP trap, could possibly execute arbitrary shell code with the privileges of the

Adventures in SQL Server 2019: Microsoft updates the update that broke the update
Researchers Mixed on Sanctions for Ransomware Negotiators
Aussie telco Telstra says soz after accidentally diverting traffic meant for encrypted email biz through its servers
Cyber Security Awareness Month is here!

A month teaching us that when everyone pitches in and does their part, then almost everyone is protected The post Cyber Security Awareness Month is here! appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

LATAM financial cybercrime: Competitors‑in‑crime sharing TTPs

ESET researchers discover surprisingly many indicators of close cooperation among Latin American banking trojans’ authors The post LATAM financial cybercrime: Competitors‑in‑crime sharing TTPs appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

LatAm Banking Trojans Collaborate in Never-Before-Seen Effort
Let’s talk about data security in the age of the ‘new normal’ with folks from FireEye, Microsoft, Splunk – and more
Years-Long ‘SilentFade’ Attack Drained Facebook Victims of $4M
Complexity has broken computer security, says academic who helped spot Meltdown and Spectre flaws

Several security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Squid, a high- performance proxy caching server for web clients. CVE-2020-15049

305 CVEs and Counting: Bug-Hunting Stories From a Security Engineer

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor, which could result in denial of service, guest-to-host privilege escalation or information leaks.

Reading Time: ~ 2 min. Ryuk Shuts Down Universal Health Services Computer systems for all 400 Universal Health Services facilities around the globe have reportedly been shut down following an attack by the Ryuk ransomware group. Ryuk is known for targeting large organizations, but the healthcare industry has been gaining popularity among these groups due […]

An update that solves one vulnerability and has 25 fixes is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

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

Malware campaign poses as Team Blue Take Action email
Russia and China’s ‘digital authoritarianism’ means we need to better arm our cyber troops, warns top UK general
Your comms may be paperless, but are they actually secure? Thought so…
US govt wins right to snaffle Edward Snowden’s $5m+ book royalties, speech fees – and all future related earnings
How’s this for overachieving? Man accused of running software outfit as a Ponzi scheme while on parole from previous fraud
Tokyo Stock Exchange breaks new record. Sadly, not a good one… its longest ever outage

Reading Time: ~ 4 min. Have you ever met a person who thinks they know it all? Or maybe you’ve occasionally been that person in your own life? No shame and no shade intended – it’s great (and important) to be confident about your skills. And in cases where you know your stuff, we encourage […]

Emotet Emails Strike Thousands of DNC Volunteers
Cloud biz Blackbaud admits ransomware crims may have captured folks’ bank info, months after saying that everything’s fine
QR Codes: A Sneaky Security Threat
Microsoft Office 365 Phishing Attack Uses Multiple CAPTCHAs

A potential HTTP request smuggling vulnerability in WEBrick was reported. WEBrick (bundled along with jruby) was too tolerant against

A potential HTTP request smuggling vulnerability in WEBrick was reported. WEBrick (bundled along with ruby2.3) was too tolerant against

Microsoft 365 services back online after hours‑long outage

Microsoft resolves a service disruption that affected Office 365, Outlook.com, Teams and other cloud-based services The post Microsoft 365 services back online after hours‑long outage appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

APT‑C‑23 group evolves its Android spyware

ESET researchers uncover a new version of Android spyware used by the APT-C-23 threat group against targets in the Middle East The post APT‑C‑23 group evolves its Android spyware appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

NFL, NBA Players Hacked in Would-Be Cyber-Slam-Dunk
Spammers Smuggle LokiBot Via URL Obfuscation Tactic

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

An update that fixes 12 vulnerabilities is now available.

The json-jwt gem before 1.11.0 for Ruby lacks an element count during the splitting of a JWE string. Therefore, there was a need to explicitly specify the number

This package allowed ../ directory traversal to access private resources because resource matching did not ensure that pathnames were in a canonical format.

Huawei’s UK code reviewers say Chinese mega-corp is still totally crap at basic software security. Bad crypto, buffer overflows, logic errors…
What to do first when your company suffers a ransomware attack
Red Hat adopts ROLIE protocol for automated exchange of security compliance assets
UK privacy watchdog confirms probe into NHS England COVID-19 app after complaints of spammy emails, texts
A complete stranger controlled this woman’s home security system, but they’re not the one she’s angry with
InterPlanetary Storm Botnet Infects 13K Mac, Android Devices
Chap beats rap in WhatsApp zap flap: Russian banker walks from insider trading case after deleting software
Smashing Security podcast #198: Chucky the coffee maker
Singapore to treat infosec as equivalent public good to fresh running water
Diplomats are supposed to be subtle and clever. Australia’s just leaked 1,000 citizens’ email addresses
GitHub adds code scanning for security bugs
OAuth Consent Phishing Ramps Up with Microsoft Office 365 Attacks
Business top brass are terrified their companies will simply be collateral damage in a future cyber-war
Russian hacker, described as ‘brilliant’ by judge, gets seven years in a US clink for raiding LinkedIn, Dropbox
Android Spyware Variant Snoops on WhatsApp, Telegram Messages
FBI, CISA warn of disinformation campaigns about hacked voting systems

Threat actors may spread false claims about compromised voting systems in order to undermine confidence in the electoral process The post FBI, CISA warn of disinformation campaigns about hacked voting systems appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Facebook Small Business Grants Spark Identity-Theft Scam
Who watches the watchers? Samsung does so it can fling ads at owners of its smart TVs
Microsoft Exchange Servers Still Open to Actively Exploited Flaw

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.