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Updated OpenShift Container Storage packages fixing various security issues and other bugs are now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage with 3.11.z Async update. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact

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

Several security improvements were added to Samba.

Several security issues were fixed in Tomcat.

FYI: If you’re running HP Device Manager, anyone on your network can get admin on your server via backdoor
It’s 2020 so not only is your mouse config tool a Node.JS Electron app, it’s also pwnable by an evil webpage
Why Web Browser Padlocks Shouldn’t Be Trusted

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Reading Time: ~ 2 min. DHS Announces Massive Increase in LokiBot Attacks By monitoring and tracking of cyberattacks over 2020, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials have uncovered a significant increase in cyberattacks being carried out by LokiBot, a malicious info-stealer of stored passwords and cryptocurrency information. The increase in LokiBot attacks can likely […]

Plane-tracking site Flight Radar 24 DDoSed… just as drones spotted buzzing over Azerbaijan and Armenia
Zerologon Attacks Against Microsoft DCs Snowball in a Week
The Network Perimeter: This Time, It’s Personal
DuckDuckGo cries fowl after being expunged from Google’s Android search preferences menu for most of Europe
When your every keystroke, mouse click, and website visit is monitored by your boss…
Las Vegas Students’ Personal Data Leaked, Post-Ransomware Attack

The package podman before version 2.1.0-1 is vulnerable to information disclosure.

The package firefox before version 81.0-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary code execution, content spoofing, cross-site scripting and denial of service.

The package chromium before version 85.0.4183.121-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including access restriction bypass, arbitrary code execution, information disclosure and insufficient validation.

The package libvirt before version 6.5.0-2 is vulnerable to privilege escalation.

An update that solves 11 vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Director of nuisance-calls company ordered to cough up £114k after ignoring £40k fine from UK data watchdog

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

Telehealth Poll: How Risky Are Remote Doctor Visits?
EU’s decision on UK data adequacy set to become ‘political football’ in broader Brexit negotiations
2 egregious cloud security threats the CSA missed
McAfee seeks $2bn return to stock market after Intel unpleasantness
With H-1B workers not exactly rushing to America this year, Uncle Sam plans to spend millions home-growing IT staff
Windows 7 ‘Upgrade’ Emails Steal Outlook Credentials
UK, US hospital computers are down, early unofficial diagnosis is a suspected outbreak of Ryuk ransomware
Mac, Linux Users Now Targeted by FinSpy Variants
Universal Health Services Ransomware Attack Impacts Hospitals Nationwide
How To Identify Libraries that are Still Vulnerable to Attacks After Updates>
The hackers and criminals are playing hardball – so here’s a cloud SIEM playbook to help you fight back
Joker Trojans Flood the Android Ecosystem
Twitter Warns Developers of API Bug That Exposed App Keys, Tokens
Should your employer know who you’re dating *outside* work?

Several security issues were fixed in iTALC.

libuv could be made to crash or execute arbitrary code if it received a specially crafted path.

Reading Time: ~ 2 min. “Ten years ago, you didn’t see state actors attacking [small businesses]. But it’s happening now,” warns George Anderson, product marketing director at Carbonite + Webroot, OpenText companies. Sadly, many of today’s managed service providers who serve small and medium-sized businesses now have to concern themselves with these very threats. Independent […]

ImageMagick could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the Perl5 Database Interface (DBI). An attacker could trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) and possibly execute arbitrary code.

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

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

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Feds warn foreign disinformation will be spamming US voters well after the November election to sow discord and doubt
Too many staff have privileged work accounts for no good reason, reckon IT bods
Are injection flaws the Bohemian Rhapsody of cybersecurity?
Putin to Trump: Let’s collude to stop election hacking

An update that solves one vulnerability and has 6 fixes is now available.

An update that fixes 7 vulnerabilities is now available.

grub2 updates for boothole vulnerabilities in f31/f32.

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x86 pv: Crash when handling guest access to MSR_MISC_ENABLE [XSA-333, CVE-2020-25602] (#1881619) Missing unlock in XENMEM_acquire_resource error path [XSA-334, CVE-2020-25598] (#1881616) race when migrating timers between x86 HVM vCPU-s [XSA-336, CVE-2020-25604] (#1881618) PCI passthrough code reading back hardware registers [XSA-337, CVE-2020-25595] (#1881587) once valid event

An update that fixes 7 vulnerabilities is now available.

Two issues have been found in yaws, a high performance HTTP 1.1 webserver written in Erlang.

Two issues have been found in nfdump, a netflow capture daemon. Both issues are related to either a buffer overflow or an integer overflow, which could result in a denial of service or a local code

An issue has been found in curl, a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax. In rare circumstances, when using the multi API of curl in combination

An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

Bug Bounty FAQ: Top Questions, Expert Answers

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Error-bnb: Techies scramble to fix Airbnb website bug that let strangers read each others’ account messages
IT guy whose job was to stop ex-staff running amok on the network is jailed for running amok on the network
FortiGate VPN Default Config Allows MitM Attacks

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Industrial Cyberattacks Get Rarer but More Complex
Ring’s Flying In-Home Camera Drone Escalates Privacy Worries
Microsoft claims to love open source – this alleged leak of Windows XP code is probably not what it had in mind, tho
Spain’s highway agency is monitoring speeding hotspots using bulk phone location data
Ray‑Ban parent company reportedly suffers major ransomware attack

There is no evidence that cybercriminals were also able to steal customer data The post Ray‑Ban parent company reportedly suffers major ransomware attack appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Microsoft Kills 18 Azure Accounts Tied to Nation-State Attacks

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

Several security issues were fixed in Gnuplot.

Multiple security issues were discovered in MediaWiki, a website engine for collaborative work: SpecialUserRights could leak whether a user existed or not, multiple code paths lacked HTML sanitisation allowing for cross-site scripting and TOTP validation applied insufficient rate

Sanitize could be made to perform XSS attacks if it received specially crafted input.

Disable pkcs11 related test case running into GnuTLS locking bug

CVE-2020-12100: Parsing mails with a large number of MIME parts could have resulted in excessive CPU usage or a crash due to running out of stack memory. CVE-2020-12673: Dovecot’s NTLM implementation does not correctly check message buffer size, which leads to reading past allocation which can lead to crash. CVE-2020-10967: lmtp/submission:

The Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 source code leaks online
Big US election coming up, security is vital and, oh look… a federal agency just got completely pwned for real
Want to stop cybercrimes tearing through your network? First check your privileges
You know that Microsoft ZeroLogon bug you’ve been dragging your feet on? It’s getting pwned in the wild now
Feds Hit with Successful Cyberattack, Data Stolen
Cisco Patch-Palooza Tackles 29 High-Severity Bugs
Doppelpaymer ransomware crew fingered for attack on German hospital that caused death of a patient
We need to talk about criminal hackers using Cobalt Strike, says Cisco Talos
Free Apple iPhone 12? Chatbot Scam Spreads Via Texts
179 arrested in massive dark web bust

The sting is said to be the US Government’s largest operation targeting crime in the internet’s seedy underbelly The post 179 arrested in massive dark web bust appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Wondering how to tell the world you’ve been hacked? Here’s a handy guide from infosec academics

Reading Time: ~ 5 min. Guest blog by Mit Patel, Managing Director of London based IT Support company, Netstar. In this article, Webroot sits down with Mit Patel, Managing Director of London-based MSP partner, Netstar, to discuss the topic of remote work during a pandemic and tips to stay cyber resilient. Why is it important […]

Alien Android Banking Trojan Sidesteps 2FA

An update that solves 6 vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available.

An update that fixes 14 vulnerabilities is now available.

Microsoft warns hackers are actively targeting Zerologon vulnerability. Patch pronto!
UK ICO fines biz profiteering from COVID-19 crisis by sending unsolicited marketing texts to Joe Public

Several security issues were fixed in SPIP.

Instagram photo flaw could have helped hackers spy via users’ cameras and microphones

An update that fixes 19 vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

Smashing Security podcast #197: Greedy bosses, game cheats, and virtual beheadings
Ex-eBay global intel staffers to admit they cyberstalked online tat bazaar’s critics – who got pig heads, funeral wreath, and more in the mail