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From malware-laden emails to fake donations, these are some of the most common cons you should watch out for amid the public health crisis The post Beware scams exploiting coronavirus fears appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Reading Time: ~ 2 min. Paradise Ransomware Spreading Through Unusual Attachments While Paradise ransomware isn’t new to the scene, the latest methods it’s using to spread are a bit surprising. Though it sticks to using email for transmission, it now offers up an IQY attachment instead of a typical word document or excel spreadsheet. These […]
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The incident affected our office network, says ENTSO-E, as it implements measures to avoid future cyber-incursions The post European power grid organization hit by cyberattack appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Can an old APT learn new tricks? Turla’s TTPs are largely unchanged, but the group recently added a Python backdoor. The post Tracking Turla: New backdoor delivered via Armenian watering holes appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Reading Time: ~ 3 min. The last thing you want to do when you get a new computer, mobile device, or tablet is spend a lot of time setting it up. But like any major appliance, these devices are something you want to invest a little time setting up properly. Often, they’re not cheap. And […]
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NordVPN praised its bug bounty program and said that a fix had been shipped within two days The post Flaw in popular VPN service may have exposed customer data appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
Only 11 percent of all enterprise accounts have multi-factor authentication enabled The post Microsoft: 99.9 percent of hacked accounts didn’t use MFA appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
sudo: Stack based buffer overflow when pwfeedback is enabled (CVE-2019-18634) SL6 x86_64 sudo-1.8.6p3-29.el6_10.3.x86_64.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p3-29.el6_10.3.x86_64.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p3-29.el6_10.3.i686.rpm sudo-devel-1.8.6p3-29.el6_10.3.i686.rpm sudo-devel-1.8.6p3-29.el6_10.3.x86_64.rpm i386 sudo-1.8.6p3-29.el6_10.3.i686.rpm sudo-debuginfo-1.8.6p3-29.e [More…]
The updated package fixes a security vulnerability: A flaw was found in mod_auth_openidc before version 2.4.1. An open redirect issue exists in URLs with a slash and backslash at the beginning. (CVE-2019-20479)
Updated pure-ftpd packages fix security vulnerabilities: An issue was discovered in Pure-FTPd 1.0.49. An uninitialized pointer vulnerability has been detected in the diraliases linked list. When the *lookup_alias(const char alias) or print_aliases(void) function is called,
The updated packages fix several issues including security vulnerabilities: In Libarchive 3.4.0, archive_wstring_append_from_mbs in archive_string.c has an out-of-bounds read because of an incorrect mbrtowc or mbtowc call. For example, bsdtar crashes via a crafted archive. (CVE-2019-19221)
Updated dojo package fixes security vulnerability: dojox was vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting. This was due to dojox.xmpp.util.xmlEncode only encoding the first occurrence of each character, not all of them (CVE-2019-10785).
The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: Mutation XSS in bleach.clean when noscript and raw tag whitelisted. (CVE-2020-6802)