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Type: Vulnerability. Cisco TelePresence Collaboration Endpoint Software is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect Agent is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.

Avast lobs intruders into the ‘Abiss’: Miscreants tried to tamper with CCleaner after sneaking into network via VPN
Turla Compromises, Infiltrates Iranian APT Infrastructure
Assange fails to delay extradition hearing as date set for February
No one would be so scummy as to scam a charity, right? UK orgs find out the hard way
Avast Network Breached As Hackers Target CCleaner Again
Train to be a certified cyber security professional for just $39
Alexa and Google Home devices can be exploited to eavesdrop on users, phish passwords
Trend Micro would like you to fall in line and become a victim of Cloud Conformity
Avast fends off hacker who breached its internal network in copycat CCleaner attack
If there were almost a million computer misuse crimes last year, Action Fraud is only passing 2% of cases to cops
New Way Found to Use Alexa, Google to ‘Voice Phish’ and Eavesdrop on Users
Iran? More like Ivan: Brit and US spies say they can see through Turla hacking group’s facade
Winnti Group’s skip‑2.0: A Microsoft SQL Server backdoor

Notorious cyberespionage group debases MSSQL The post Winnti Group’s skip‑2.0: A Microsoft SQL Server backdoor appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Malware hides as iOS jailbreak, Sucuri is insecuri, and China is about to get even worse

It was discovered that Aspell, the GNU spell checker, incorrectly handled certain inputs which leads to a stack-based buffer over-read. An attacker could potentially access sensitive information.

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

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

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An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update for logging-elasticsearch5-container is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

It was discovered that the Special:Redirect functionality of MediaWiki, a website engine for collaborative work, could expose suppressed user names, resulting in an information leak.

New build after fixing BuildRequires —- – Rebase to upstream version 3.9.0 – fix CVE-2019-14745

In the nfs-utils package, providing support files for Network File System (NFS) including the rpc.statd daemon, the directory /var/lib/nfs is owned by statd:nogroup. This directory contains files

* Rebase to 1.8.28 * Fixed CVE-2019-14287

Deus ex hackina: It took just 10 minutes to find data-divulging demons corrupting Pope’s Click to Pray eRosary app
Microsoft Tackles Election Security with Bug Bounties

Type: Vulnerability. Horner Automation Cscape is prone to multiple arbitrary code-execution vulnerabilities; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Cisco Aironet Access Points is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Cisco Wireless LAN Controller is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. ISC Kea is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect Agent is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. ISC Kea is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. ISC Kea is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Cisco Aironet Access Points is prone to an unauthorized access vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Jenkins is prone to multiple security vulnerabilities; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Pulse Connect Secure and Policy Secure are prone to an access-bypass vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Pulse Connect Secure and Pulse Policy Secure are prone to multiple security vulnerabilities; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Cisco SPA100 Series Analog Telephone Adapter is prone to multiple arbitrary code-execution vulnerabilities; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Multiple Cisco Products are prone to a cross-site request-forgery vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud is prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Adobe Acrobat and Reader are prone to an arbitrary code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Npmjs ‘csv-parse’ module is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability; fixes are available.

Execs Could Face Jail Time For Privacy Violations
Major Airport Malware Attack Shines a Light on OT Security
Four-Year-Old Critical Linux Wi-Fi Bug Allows System Compromise
Podcast: Insider Attacks May Soon Cost Less Than Malware-based Equivalent

The fix for CVE-2019-10871 broke xpdf. This change has been reverted until a better fix can be developed.

The 5.3.6 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

The 5.3.6 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

The 5.3.6 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

== Security fixes == * (T230402, CVE-2019-16738) SECURITY: Add permission check for suppressed account to Special:Redirect. == Links to all mentioned tasks == * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230402 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227662

Zappos Offers Users 10% Discount in 2012 Breach Settlement

Reading Time: ~ 2 min. Cryptominers Found in Audio Files Researchers have recently found that both cryptominers and backdoors are being deployed within WAV audio files on targeted systems. Using steganography, attackers can include components for both loading and executing malicious scripts, while still allowing some audio files to play normally. Along with the malicious […]

How does £36m sound, mon CHERI? UK.gov pumps cash into Arm security research

kernel: Use-after-free in __blk_drain_queue() function in block/blk-core.c (CVE-2018-20856) * kernel: Heap overflow in mwifiex_update_bss_desc_with_ie function in marvell/mwifiex/scan.c (CVE-2019-3846) * hardware: bluetooth: BR/EDR encryption key negotiation attacks (KNOB) (CVE-2019-9506) * kernel: Heap overflow in mwifiex_uap_parse_tail_ies function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/ [More…]

Google slings websites into Chrome’s solitary confinement on Android to thwart Spectre-style data snooping

Two buffer allocation issues were identified in poppler. CVE-2019-9959

An update for jenkins is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11. 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 for atomic-openshift is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

An update for mediawiki is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

Phorpiex Botnet Shifts Gears From Ransomware to Sextortion

Type: Vulnerability. Eclipse Jetty is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Adobe Acrobat and Reader are prone to multiple arbitrary code-execution vulnerabilities; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Apache Axis is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Adobe Acrobat and Reader are prone to multiple arbitrary code-execution vulnerabilities; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Adobe Acrobat and Reader are prone to information-disclosure vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Adobe Download Manager is prone to an insecure file-permission vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Juniper Junos is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Juniper Junos is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Eclipse Jetty is prone to a security vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Adobe Acrobat and Reader are prone to an arbitrary code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Adobe Acrobat and Reader are prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability; fixes are available.

Help! I bought a domain and ended up with a stranger’s PayPal! And I can’t give it back

Several cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities were discovered in WordPress, a popular content management framework. An attacker can use these flaws to send malicious scripts to an unsuspecting user.

In sudo, a program that provides limited super user privileges to specific users, an attacker with access to a Runas ALL sudoer account can bypass certain policy blacklists and session PAM modules, and can

Reading Time: ~ 3 min. In May of 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in the EU. Seemingly overnight, websites everywhere started throwing pop-ups to inform us about their use of cookies and our privacy rights. While the presence of the pop-ups may be reassuring to some (and annoying to others), […]

Hacking Back? BriansClub Dark Web Attack a Boon for Banks
A cautionary, Thames Watery tale on how not to look phishy: ‘Click here to re-register!’
Trump Campaign Website Left Open to Email Server Hijack
About that “Any fingerprint can unlock your Samsung Galaxy S10” report
Cisco Aironet Access Points Plagued By Critical, High-Severity Flaws
Dangerous Kubernetes Bugs Allow Authentication Bypass, DoS
Podcast: Departing Employees Could Mean Departing Data
New Presentation Template: Incident Response Reporting for Management
Cybercrime Tool Prices Bump Up in Dark Web Markets
Galaxy S10 Fingerprint Sensor Thwarted With Screen Protector: Report
Unencrypted Mobile Traffic on Tor Network Leaks PII
On-Board ‘Mystery Boxes’ Threaten Global Shipping Vessels
Remember the Democratic National Committee email leak? Same hackers now targeting EU countries, say malware boffins

OpenJDK: Improper handling of Kerberos proxy credentials (Kerberos, 8220302) (CVE-2019-2949) * OpenJDK: Unexpected exception thrown during regular expression processing in Nashorn (Scripting, 8223518) (CVE-2019-2975) * OpenJDK: Out of bounds access in optimized String indexof implementation (Hotspot, 8224062) (CVE-2019-2977) * OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of nested jar: URLs in Jar URL handl [More…]

OpenJDK: Improper handling of Kerberos proxy credentials (Kerberos, 8220302) (CVE-2019-2949) * OpenJDK: Unexpected exception thrown during regular expression processing in Nashorn (Scripting, 8223518) (CVE-2019-2975) * OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of nested jar: URLs in Jar URL handler (Networking, 8223892) (CVE-2019-2978) * OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of HTTP proxy responses in HttpURLConne [More…]

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability

An update for java-1.8.0-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

What was wrong with Alexa? How Amazon Echo and Kindle got KRACKed

ESET Smart Home Research Team uncovers Echo, Kindle versions vulnerable to 2017 Wi-Fi vulnerabilities The post What was wrong with Alexa? How Amazon Echo and Kindle got KRACKed appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Operation Ghost: The Dukes aren’t back – they never left

ESET researchers describe recent activity of the infamous espionage group, the Dukes, including three new malware families The post Operation Ghost: The Dukes aren’t back – they never left appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Several security issues were fixed in LibTIFF.