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Supreme Court says secret UK spy court’s judgments can be overruled after all

An update for ruby is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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

Ice Hockey World Championship: The risks of free live streaming

You think you’re watching the games for free, but are you sure that’s the case? Let’s review some of the risks that may come with free live streaming websites The post Ice Hockey World Championship: The risks of free live streaming appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

MI5 slapped on the wrist for ‘serious’ surveillance data breach
Israeli TV’s Eurovision webcast hijacked by hackers. Hamas blamed
A deeper look at the MDS vulnerability
Modern IT security: Sometimes caring is NOT sharing
Understanding the MDS vulnerability: What it is, why it works and how to mitigate it
Microsoft worm warning: Windows users urged to patch now
Microsoft emits free remote-desktop security patches for WinXP to Server 2008 to avoid another WannaCry

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Microsoft Patches Zero-Day Bug Under Active Attack
Apple Patches Intel Side-Channel Bugs; Updates iOS, macOS and More
Trend Micro is one of the anti-virus firms hacked by Fxsmsp

The update for ghostscript released as DSA 4442-1 uncovered an issue in cups-filters which was using the undocumented Ghostscript internal “pdfdict” now hidden in the ghostscript update. Updated cups-filters packages are now available to correct this issue.

An update for java-1.8.0-ibm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary. 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 java-1.7.1-ibm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary. 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 java-1.8.0-ibm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary. 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 java-1.7.1-ibm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

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

Intel CPUs Impacted By New Class of Spectre-Like Attacks
Buffer the Intel flayer: Chipzilla, Microsoft, Linux world, etc emit fixes for yet more data-leaking processor flaws
Adobe Addresses Critical Adobe Flash Player, Acrobat Reader Flaws
WhatsApp flaw lets hackers install spyware on iOS & Android devices
Linux Kernel Flaw Allows Remote Code-Execution
WhatsApp Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Spyware Attacks
Cynet: An Autonomous Security Platform for Any Size Organization

An update for wget is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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

Plead malware distributed via MitM attacks at router level, misusing ASUS WebStorage

ESET researchers have discovered that the attackers have been distributing the Plead malware via compromised routers and man-in-the-middle attacks against the legitimate ASUS WebStorage software The post Plead malware distributed via MitM attacks at router level, misusing ASUS WebStorage appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

An update is now available for Satellite Tools 6.5. 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

Seize the chance to boost your IT security skills: Trio of training events to choose from

Red Hat Satellite 6.5 for RHEL 7 is now available containing security fixes, bug fixes, and enhancements. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

Urgent! Update WhatsApp NOW to add new sticker support

Isaac Boukris and Andrew Bartlett discovered that the S4U2Self Kerberos extension used in Samba’s Active Directory support was susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks caused by incomplete checksum validation.

Multiple issues have been addressed in Qt4. CVE-2018-15518

It’s 2019 and a WhatsApp call can hack a phone: Zero-day exploit infects mobes with spyware

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows JET Database Engine is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Edge is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows JET Database Engine is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to local information-disclosure vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows JET Database Engine is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Edge is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft ASP.NET Core is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Pair of Cisco Bugs, One Unpatched, Affect Millions of Devices
Twitter Leaks Apple iOS Users’ Location Data to Ad Partner

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Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Sim swapping hackers charged with stealing $2.5m worth of crypto
ScarCruft APT Adds Bluetooth Harvester to its Malware Bag of Tricks
ThreatList: Top 5 Most Dangerous Attachment Types
Zara Larsson wants your password so she can watch Game of Thrones
Verizon’s data breach report: What the numbers say

What are some of the most interesting takeaways from Verizon’s latest annual security report? The post Verizon’s data breach report: What the numbers say appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes 16 vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes 7 vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Spying on personal alarms and GPS trackers is as simple as sending an SMS
IRS extends tax filing deadline following attack on Wolters Kluwer CCH cloud accounting service

An update that fixes 9 vulnerabilities is now available.

Go on, Skippy, spill yer guts: 10.5 million+ Australians’ data was breached in past 3 months

The PostgreSQL project has release a new minor release of the 9.4 branch. For Debian 8 “Jessie”, this has been uploaded as version

An update for python-jinja2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

Baltimore hit with more ransomware, ChinaMobile gets the boot in the US, and another (mild) Systemd system-d’oh!
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Updated openssh packages fix security vulnerabilities: Due to missing character encoding in the progress display, the object name can be used to manipulate the client output, for example to employ ANSI codes to hide additional files being transferred (CVE-2019-6109).

Updated sysstat package fix security vulnerabilities: Out-of-bounds read during a memmove call inside the remap_struct function (CVE-2018-19416).

Updated python packages fix security vulnerability: A ‘file:’ blacklist bypass in URIs by using the ‘local-file:’ scheme instead (CVE-2019-9948).

Updated openexr package fixes security vulnerabilities: It was discovered that makeMultiView.cpp in exrmultiview in OpenEXR 2.3.0 has an out-of-bounds write, leading to an assertion failure or possibly unspecified other impact (CVE-2018-18444).

pax_decode_header in sparse.c in GNU Tar before 1.32 had a NULL pointer dereference when parsing certain archives that have malformed extended headers (CVE-2019-9923). References:

Updated bash package fixes security vulnerability: A vulnerability in which shell did not prevent user BASH_CMDS, allowing the user to execute any command with the permissions of the shell (CVE-2019-9924).

Updated qt4 packages fix security vulnerability: A malformed PPM image causes a division by zero and a crash in qppmhandler.cpp (CVE-2018-19872).

The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: A vulnerability in the Portable Document Format (PDF) scanning functionality of Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.101.1 and prior could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS)

Updated mxml packages fix security vulnerabilities: An issue has been found in Mini-XML (aka mxml) 2.12. It is a stack-based buffer overflow in mxml_write_node in mxml-file.c via vectors involving a double-precision floating point number and the ”

A vulnerability was found in the svgsalamander library. If the library is being used in a web application for processing user supplied SVG files then the app is vulnerable to SSRF (CVE-2017-5617). References:

Updated tcpreplay package fixes security vulnerabilities: An issue was discovered in Tcpreplay 4.3.1. A NULL pointer dereference occurred in the function get_layer4_v6() located at get.c. This can be triggered by sending a crafted pcap file to the tcpreplay-edit binary.

Updated cronie packages fix security vulnerabilities: Cronie before 1.5.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a large crontab file because the calloc return value is not checked (CVE-2019-9704).

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Hackers steal source code of top anti-virus firms to sell online
Panic as panic alarms meant to keep granny and little Timmy safe prove a privacy fiasco

Update to April 2019 CPU. See: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk- updates-dev/2019-April/000951.html

FIN7 Linked to Escalating Active Exploits for Microsoft SharePoint Bug

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Xbox 2 update – Microsoft pulls off great news for Xbox fans
News Wrap: Facebook Regulation, Verizon DBIR, Hidden Airbnb Cameras
Got SQLite? Get patching: Another RCE hole’s just been found
The WannaCry Security Legacy and What’s to Come
Nvidia Warns Windows Gamers on GPU Driver Flaws
Symantec boss Greg Clark exits biz amid dismal financials
Students pull off below-the-belt mailing list prank