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LinuxSecurity.com: An update for chromium-browser 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,

LinuxSecurity.com: gnuplot5, a command-line driven interactive plotting program, has been examined with fuzzing by Tim Blazytko, Cornelius Aschermann, Sergej Schumilo and Nils Bars.

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Hacker takeovers Drake’s Fortnite account to yell racial slurs
DoS Vulnerabilities Found in Linux Kernel, Unpatched
Security News This Week: Amazon Won’t Say How Many Customer Emails It

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in xml-security-c, a library for the XML Digital Security specification, has been found. Different KeyInfo combinations, like signatures without public key, result in incomplete DSA structures that

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Exiv2, the worst of which could result in a Denial of Service condition.

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LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Thunderbird, the worst of which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in GPL Ghostscript, the worst of which could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Asterisk, the worst of which could result in a Denial of Service condition.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Spotify Phishers Hijack Music Fans’ Accounts
Ukrainian police arrest hacker who infected over 2,000 users with DarkComet RAT
Mirai Evolves From IoT Devices to Linux Servers
Threatpost News Wrap Podcast for Nov. 23

LinuxSecurity.com: USN-3801-1 caused some minor regressions in Firefox.

LinuxSecurity.com: Two security vulnerabilities were discovered in OTRS, a Ticket Request System, that may lead to privilege escalation or arbitrary file write. CVE-2018-19141

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that a buffer overflow in liveMedia, a set of C++ libraries for multimedia streaming could result in the execution of arbitrary code when parsing a malformed RTSP stream.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Chromium and Google Chrome, the worst of which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2015-5297 Numerical overflow in pointer arithmetic.

LinuxSecurity.com: mod_perl could be made to run programs contrary to expectations.

Old Printer Vulnerabilities Die Hard
‘Cuddly’ German chat app slacking on hashing given a good whacking under GDPR: €20k fine
ThreatList: One-Third of Firms Say Their Container Security Lags
Apache Hadoop spins cracking code injection vulnerability YARN

LinuxSecurity.com: The package flashplugin before version 31.0.0.153-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package webkit2gtk before version 2.22.4-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package lib32-libtiff before version 4.0.10-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary code execution, denial of service and information disclosure.

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that there were two vulnerabilities libphp-phpmailer, an email library for the PHP programming language: * CVE-2017-5223: Local file disclosure vulnerability via relative path

LinuxSecurity.com: The ghostscript 9.26 update is focusing on security issues, including solving several (well publicised) real and potential exploits. For other fixes in this release, see the referenced News.

LinuxSecurity.com: In Poppler 0.68.0, the Parser::getObj() function in Parser.cc may cause infinite recursion via a crafted file. A remote attacker can leverage this for a DoS attack. (CVE-2018-16646) An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a reachable abort in

LinuxSecurity.com: A critical vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player 31.0.0.148 and earlier versions. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. (CVE-2018-15981) References:

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJDK, an implementation of the Oracle Java platform, resulting in denial of service, sandbox bypass, incomplete TLS identity verification, information disclosure or the execution of arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: mod_perl could be made to run programs contrary to expectations.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security vulnerabilities were discovered in the JasPer JPEG-2000 library. CVE-2015-5203

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that there was an XSS vulnerability in the ruby-rack web-server library. A malicious request could impact the HTTP/HTTPS scheme being returned

Laptop search unravels scheme to fake death for insurance cash
Who needs passwords? Microsoft now lets you in with your face or security key

The software giant takes passwords one step closer to obsolescence as it now enables users to log into their Microsoft accounts with more modern forms of authentication The post Who needs passwords? Microsoft now lets you in with your face or security key appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

SIM swap! Man charged after million dollar cryptocurrency theft
Zero-Trust Frameworks: Securing the Digital Transformation
Facebook appeals ?500,000 penalty over Cambridge Analytica scandal
USPS finally fixes website flaw that exposed 60 million users’ data
Podcast: Breaking Down the Magecart Threat (Part One)
German e-government SDK patched against ID spoofing vulnerability
Dutton leans on encryption laws committee to hurry up
Real Identity of Hacker Who Sold LinkedIn, Dropbox Databases Revealed
As Black Friday Looms, IoT Gadgets Take the Risk Spotlight
Malware scum want to build a Linux botnet using Mirai
Smashing Security #105: Facebook, Nietzsche, Tesla, and Nicole

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2018-0735 Samuel Weiser reported a timing vulnerability in the OpenSSL ECDSA signature generation, which might leak information to recover the

LinuxSecurity.com: The update for ceph issued as DSA-4339-1 caused a build regression for the i386 builds. Updated packages are now available to address this issue. For reference, the original advisory text follows.

Talk in Trump’s tweets tells whether tale is true: Code can mostly spot Prez lies from wording
Podcast: Why ‘Throwing Money’ at Threats Won’t Work
FCC Addresses Robocalling – But Questions Remain

LinuxSecurity.com: This is a service release to update the stable version 1.3 of Roundcube Webmail. It contains fixes to several bugs backported from the master branch including a security fix for a reported XSS vulnerability (in handling invalid style tag content) plus updates to ensure compatibility with PHP 7.3 and recent versions of Courier-IMAP, Dovecot […]

LinuxSecurity.com: An issue was discovered in GNU gettext 0.19.8. There is a double free in default_add_message in read-catalog.c, related to an invalid free in po_gram_parse in po-gram-gen.y, as demonstrated by lt-msgfmt. (CVE-2018-18751)

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3409

Emotet’s Thanksgiving Campaign Delivers New Recipes for Compromise
Amazon warns customers it leaked their names and email addresses
3 is the magic number (of bits): Flip ’em at once and your ECC protection has been Rowhammer’d
High Tail Hall data breach exposes over 400,000 furry fans
Hackers target critical WordPress plugin flaw to install backdoors and create admin accounts

Reading Time: ~4 min.As digital natives become more immersed in and dependent upon technology, they are likely to experience “cyber fatigue,” which can be thought of cybersecurity complacency. Paired with the invincible feeling that often accompanies being young, this can be a dangerous combination. It’s easy to mistakenly believe that hacked devices and identity theft […]

Technical foul: Amazon suffers data snafu days before Black Friday, emails world+dog

LinuxSecurity.com: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 3.7.72 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

Fancy Bear hacker crew Putin dirty RATs in Word documents emailed to govt orgs – report
7 container security tools to lock down Docker and Kubernetes
New era for Japan, familiar problems: Microsoft withdraws crash-tastic patches
Two Brits jailed for TalkTalk hack

The breach exposed the personal data of 160,000 people and cost the telecom company £77 million The post Two Brits jailed for TalkTalk hack appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

When selling security awareness training by email, probably a good shout not to hit ‘reply all’

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that there was a remote denial-of-service vulnerability in ruby-i18n, a I18n and localization solution for Ruby. An application crash could be engineering a situation where `:some_key` is

Talk about a cache flow problem: This JavaScript can snoop on other browser tabs to work out what you’re visiting
If you’re using Dell EMC Avamar, even in VMware’s vSphere, you need to grab and install these security updates
Infosec’s Thanksgiving turkey triumvirate: Tesla, Tumblr, Trump (as in Ivanka)… and tons more
Australia’s ‘snoop minister’ wants crypto-busting law probe wound up, proposals back into parliament
Sofacy APT Takes Aim with Novel ‘Cannon’ Trojan

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 18 vulnerabilities is now available.

What the #!/%* is that rogue Raspberry Pi doing plugged into my company’s server room, sysadmin despairs

LinuxSecurity.com: A stack based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in liblivemedia, the LIVE555 RTSP server library. This issue might be leveraged by remote attackers to cause code execution, by sending a crafted packet.

LastPass? More like lost pass. Or where the fsck has it gone pass. Five-hour outage drives netizens bonkers

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has three fixes is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has three fixes is now available.

Critical Adobe Flash Bug Impacts Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS