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Update to latest upstream version.

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– Fix CVE-2020-28196 (DoS in ASN.1 parsing due to missing recursion depth checks) – fc32 + fc33 only: pull-up to rawhide

Add correct fix for CVE-2020-24977 (RHBZ#1877788), thanks: Jan de Groot.

CVE-2020-0181, CVE-2020-0198, and CVE-2020-0452

Ex-missile systems worker jailed for breaching Official Secrets Act after last-second guilty plea
Amazon Sues Instagram, TikTok Influencers Over Knockoff Scam
Botnet Attackers Turn to Vulnerable IoT Devices
Nation-State Attackers Actively Target COVID-19 Vaccine-Makers
2020 Reader Survey: Share Your Feedback to Help Us Improve

USN-4607-1 introduced a regression in OpenJDK.

EncroChat hack evidence wasn’t obtained illegally, High Court of England and Wales rules – trial judges will decide whether to admit it
Google patches two new zero‑day flaws in Chrome

The last three weeks have seen a bumper crop of patches for zero-day bugs across software from Google, Apple and Microsoft The post Google patches two new zero‑day flaws in Chrome appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Hungry for data, ModPipe backdoor hits POS software used in hospitality sector

Backdoor authors show deep knowledge of the targeted POS software, decrypting database passwords from Windows registry values The post Hungry for data, ModPipe backdoor hits POS software used in hospitality sector appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Ticketmaster Scores Hefty Fine Over 2018 Data Breach
Credential-Stuffing Attack Hits The North Face
Ticketmaster cops £1.25m ICO fine for 2018 Magecart breach, blames someone else and vows to appeal

Reading Time: ~ 2 min. Phony IRS Emails Flooding Inboxes Upwards of 70,000 inboxes have been receiving spam claiming to be from the IRS threatening legal action for late or missing payments. Most recipients are Microsoft Office 365 users and have been receiving threats of lawsuits to, wage garnishment and even arrest. These spoofing scams […]

Report: CISA Chief Expects White House to Fire Him
The North Face resets passwords after credential-stuffing attack
Free tools from Recorded Future that can make you a security intelligence expert

Li Fei found that libproxy, a library for automatic proxy configuration management, was vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability when receiving a large PAC file from a server without a Content-Length header in the response.

2020’s biggest innovators? Hackers and cyber-criminals, again, says Darktrace

A use-after-free was found in Thunderbird, which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code. For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version

Ken Gaillot discovered a vulnerability in the Pacemaker cluster resource manager: If ACLs were configured for users in the “haclient” group, the ACL restrictions could be bypassed via unrestricted IPC communication, resulting in cluster-wide arbitrary code execution with

Election security fears doused with reality: Top officials say Nov 3 ‘was the most secure in American history.’ The end

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Cyberattackers Serve Up Custom Backdoor for Oracle Restaurant Software
Animal Jam Hacked, 46M Records Roam the Dark Web

Updates the nss package to upstream NSS 3.58 respectively. For details about new functionality and a list of bugs fixed in this release please see the upstream release notes – https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.57_release_notes

Updates the nss package to upstream NSS 3.58 respectively. For details about new functionality and a list of bugs fixed in this release please see the upstream release notes – https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.57_release_notes

Reading Time: ~ 3 min. Webroot is a dynamic team of hard-working individuals with diverse backgrounds. One of those hard-working individuals is Ben Jackson, Senior Manager of Software Development, Engineering. Ben started off building pages in HTML. Now he leads high-performing teams and helps develop architectures from his home in the UK. We sat down […]

Digging into the Dark Web: How Security Researchers Learn to Think Like the Bad Guys
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

Reading Time: ~ 4 min. A few years back, cryptojacking and cryptomining emerged as relatively low-effort ways to profit by hijacking another’s computing resources. Today, cloudjacking and cloud mining capitalize on similar principles, only by targeting the near infinite resources of the cloud to generate revenue for attackers. Knowing this growing threat is key to […]

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