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Yes, you should update your iPhone to iOS 12.1, but its lock screen is *still* unsafe
Five ways to make Halloween less cyber-scary for kids

How can we help kids avoid security horrors and stay safe from rogue online “neighbors” at Halloween and thereafter? The post Five ways to make Halloween less cyber-scary for kids appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

LinuxSecurity.com: The package gitlab before version 11.4.3-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary code execution, cross-site request forgery, cross-site scripting and information disclosure.

Check this out: Radisson Hotel Group ‘fesses up to ‘security incident’

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated glusterfs packages that fix multiple security issues and bugs are now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated glusterfs packages that fix multiple security issues and bugs are now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact

Apple emits its much-anticipated updates to Mac, AppleTV, and iOS
Square, PayPal POS Hardware Open to Multiple Attack Vectors
Employee infects US govt network with malware after visiting 9,000 porn sites

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Telco Extended Update Support, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Telco Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

Google Updates reCAPTCHA: No More Boxes to Check
Signal App’s New Privacy Feature Conceals Sender ID from Metadata
ThreatList: Dead Web Apps Haunt 70 Percent of FT 500 Firms

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Advanced Update Support. 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: An update for libvirt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Advanced Update Support. 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: An update for java-1.7.0-openjdk 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,

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for python-paramiko 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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for kernel-alt 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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for glibc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for jasper is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for libvirt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for kernel 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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for fuse is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for kernel-rt 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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for xerces-c is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

Videos and MS Office documents – ingredients for a malware attack
IoT Flaw Allows Hijacking of Connected Construction Cranes

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Pain in the brain! Kaspersky warns of hackable brain implants
‘Recommendations To Enable PSD2-Compliant Transaction Monitoring’ white paper. Get your copy for free!
IBM acquiring Red Hat for a whopping $34 billion
Girl Scouts Issues Data Breach Warning to 2,800 Members

LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2018-17100 An int32 overflow can cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted

Nation-State Phishing: A Country-Sized Catch
X.Org Flaw Allows Privilege Escalation in Linux Systems
Search for Chrome on Bing, and you might get a nasty surprise
Ransomware and the enterprise: A new white paper

Ransomware remains a serious threat and this new white paper explains what enterprises need to know, and do, to reduce risk The post Ransomware and the enterprise: A new white paper appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.

Nothing exceeds like excess; or, a lack of privacy in the digital age

What has the internet brought us? And how does privacy stay anchored in the data deluge of the digital age? Here’s a brief reflection to celebrate today’s Internet Day The post Nothing exceeds like excess; or, a lack of privacy in the digital age appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2018-16395 Fix for OpenSSL::X509::Name equality check.

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that incorrect connection setup in the server for Teeworlds, an online multi-player platform 2D shooter, could result in denial of service via forged connection packets (rendering all game server slots occupied).

LinuxSecurity.com: The update of Graphicsmagick in DSA-4321-1 introduced a change in the handling of case-sensitivity in an internal API function which could affect some code built against the GraphicsMagick libraries. This update restores the previous behaviour.

LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2018-1000805 Fix to prevent malicious clients to trick the Paramiko server into thinking an unauthenticated client is authenticated.

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Cathay Pacific hit by massive data breach; 10 million passengers affected
Site security & user friendliness: Top E-commerce qualities for 2018
Yahoo! $50m! hack! damages! bill!, Russian trolls menaced by Uncle Sam inaction, computer voting-machine UI confusion, and more

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves one vulnerability and has 5 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: A flaw was found in xorg-x11-server before 1.20.3. An incorrect permission check for -modulepath and -logfile options when starting Xorg. X server allows unprivileged users with the ability to log in to the system via physical console to escalate their privileges and run arbitrary code under root privileges (CVE-2018-14665).

LinuxSecurity.com: This kernel-linus update is based on the upstream 4.14.78 and adds additional fixes for the L1TF security issues. It also fixes atleast the following security issues: Linux kernel from versions 3.9 and up, is vulnerable to a denial of

LinuxSecurity.com: This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.14.78 and adds additional fixes for the L1TF security issues. It also fixes atleast the following security issues: Linux kernel from versions 3.9 and up, is vulnerable to a denial of

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerabilities: Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 60.3 (CVE-2018-12389). Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 63 and Firefox ESR 60.3

LinuxSecurity.com: This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.78 and fixes atleast the following security issues: An issue was discovered in the fd_locked_ioctl function in drivers/block/floppy.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7. The floppy

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 5 vulnerabilities is now available.

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

Apple and Samsung fined millions for intentionally slowing down old smartphones
ThreatList: 1 Out of 5 Would Ditch a Business After a Data Breach
The D in Systemd stands for ‘Dammmmit!’ A nasty DHCPv6 packet can pwn a vulnerable Linux box

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PoC Attack Leverages Microsoft Office and YouTube to Deliver Malware
How to build your own IT infosec holodeck: A blueprint for crafting a virtual enterprise to prod, test and hack

Reading Time: ~2 min.Data Breach Affects Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced last week they had discovered malicious activity within their direct enrollment pathway, which connects patients and healthcare brokers. At least 75,000 individuals were affected. The pathway has since been disabled to prevent further exposure. […]

British Airways hack is worse than originally thought
British Airways Data Breach Takes Off Again with 185K More Victims
DemonBot Fans DDoS Flames with Hadoop Enslavement
General Motors collected location & radio listening habits data of 90,000 drivers
23-year-old woman charged with stealing $320,000 worth of cryptocurrency
IoT: A roomful of conundrums

How can you stay safe in a world where “smart” is the new default? The post IoT: A roomful of conundrums appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

How the cloud has made you more secure
Sorry friends, I’m afraid I just can’t quite afford the Bitcoin to stop that vid from leaking everywhere
Belgium: Oi, Brits, explain why Belgacom hack IPs pointed at you and your GCHQ
Cathay Pacific breach exposes data of 9.4 million passengers

The data breach at the Hong Kong flag carrier is the third such incident to hit the aviation industry in two months The post Cathay Pacific breach exposes data of 9.4 million passengers appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

LinuxSecurity.com: The package firefox before version 63.0-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary code execution, access restriction bypass, privilege escalation, content spoofing, denial of service and information disclosure.

We asked 100 people to name a backdoored router. You said ‘EE’s 4GEE HH70’. Our survey says… Top answer!

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 10 vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 40 vulnerabilities is now available.

British Airways: If you’re feeling left out of our 380,000 passenger hack, then you may be one of another 185,000 victims
This two-year-old X.org give-me-root hole is so trivial to exploit, you can fit it in a single tweet

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3005

LinuxSecurity.com: Narendra Shinde discovered that incorrect command-line parameter validation in the Xorg X server may result in arbitary file overwrite, which can result in privilege escalation.

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3006

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: A regression was found in the recent security update for 389-ds-base (the 389 Directory Server), announced as DLA-1554-2, caused by an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-14648. The regression caused the server to crash when processing requests with empty attributes.

Word up: Embedded vids in Office docs can hide embedded nasties, infosec bods warn

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What a crane in the ass: Bug leaves construction machinery vulnerable to evil command injection

Reading Time: ~3 min.By now, you likely know that a Virtual Private Network (VPN) is essential to remaining safe when working remotely. But, once set up, how can you optimize your VPN to work well with your devices and meet your security needs? Here are our top five tips for maximizing your VPN experience. Pair […]

TimpDoor Android malware turning devices into hidden proxies
UK Slaps Facebook with $645K Fine Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Pentagon Expands Bug-Bounty Program to Include Physical Systems
Debunking AI’s Impact on the Cybersecurity Skills Gap
Third-Party Apps May Read Your Email: Learn How to Protect