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Google Search Results Spoofed to Create Fake News
Reddit users locked out of accounts after ‘security concern’
Zerodium is paying $2 million for Apple iOS remote jailbreak
Thousands of Internet connected hot tubs vulnerable to remote attacks
NSA to release free reverse engineering tool GHIDRA at RSAConference
2018’s Top hacks and data breaches
Town of Salem data breach: Personal data of 7.6M gamers stolen
Baddies linked to Iran fingered for DNS hijacking to read Middle Eastern regimes’ emails
Face unlock on many Android smartphones falls for a photo

No 3D-printed heads or realistic masks were needed to trick even a handful of high-end handset models into unlocking their screens The post Face unlock on many Android smartphones falls for a photo appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Reading Time: ~4 min. We live in a digital age where internet-connected devices are the norm. Our phones, our televisions, even our light bulbs are tied together in today’s tech ecosystem. For high school and college students, this degree of digital connection is the standard, and when school is in session, tech accessories are a […]

Smashing Security #110: What? You can get paid to leave Facebook?

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability was found in mbedTLS which allows a local unprivileged attacker to recover the plaintext of RSA decryption, which is used in RSA-without-(EC)DH(E) cipher suites (CVE-2018-19608). References:

LinuxSecurity.com: A bug in the server implementation of RTSP-over-HTTP in live could allow a denial-of-service attack. A bug in the server implementation of RTSP-over-HTTP could allow a buffer overflow, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code

LinuxSecurity.com: An authenticated user who can obtain a TGT using an older encryption type (DES, DES3, or RC4) can cause an assertion failure in the KDC by sending an S4U2Self request (CVE-2018-20217). References:

CES IoT security – do you know who your home is talking to?

There’s a digital treasure trove to be had in your home so you should take steps to protect it The post CES IoT security – do you know who your home is talking to? appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Before you slink off to the pub, be sure to patch these 19 serious vulns in Juniper Networks kit

LinuxSecurity.com: libgxps 0.3.1 release. – Fix font scaling when converting xps to pdf – Handle errors returned by archive_read_data in GXPSArchive – Ensure gxps_archive_read_entry() fills the GError in case of failure – Make the pdf generated by xpstopdf to be 96 dpi – Fix OUTPUT FILE description in man pages – Clear the GError before […]

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2018-1000532, new non-root permissions and a few smaller fixes. Fix a directory traversal issue introduced with the fix for CVE-2018-1000532, and refuses to run as setuid root or via sudo to avoid any more priviledge escalation issue. —- Security fix for CVE-2018-1000532 and a few smaller fixes

The D in SystemD stands for Dammmit… Security holes found in much-adored Linux toolkit

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libcaca, a graphics library that outputs text: integer overflows, floating point exceptions or invalid memory reads may lead to a denial-of-service (application crash) if a malformed image file is processed.

Critical Flaw in Cisco’s Email Security Appliance Enables ‘Permanent DoS’
Who cracked El Chapo’s encrypted chats and brought down the Mexican drug kingpin? Er, his IT manager
ICEPick-3PC: A Sophisticated Adware That Collects Data En Masse

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 13 vulnerabilities is now available.

Google Play Boots 85 Malicious Adware Apps

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

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Exchange Server is prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft SharePoint Server is prone to a remote privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Visual Studio is prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability; fixes are available.

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

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Office SharePoint is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Office SharePoint is prone to a cross-site scripting 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 ASP.NET Core is prone to an information disclosure vulnerability; fixes are available.

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

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer 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 Windows is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

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

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

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

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Word is prone to a remote code-execution 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 JET Database Engine is prone to a remote code-execution 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 JET Database Engine is prone to a remote code-execution 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 a local privilege-escalation 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 Office SharePoint is prone to a cross-site scripting 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 JET Database Engine is prone to a remote code-execution 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 JET Database Engine is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

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

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

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

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation 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 Visual Studio is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Django could be made to expose spoofed information over the network.

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

ThreatList: WordPress Vulnerabilities Tripled in 2018
Biometrics in 2019: Increased Security or New Attack Vector?
The Promise and Peril of 5G
Intel Patches High-Severity Privilege-Escalation Bugs
Google Play Store spews malware onto 9 million ‘Droids
Automated phishing attack tool bypasses 2FA protection
Being paid to quit Facebook
This old ransomware is using an unpleasant new trick to try and make you pay up
Ethereum Classic hackers steal over $1.1M with 51% attacks
CES – singularity and securing the car

What’s in store for automotive security once cars morph into mobile living rooms and working spaces? And how about transportation at large? The post CES – singularity and securing the car appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

LinuxSecurity.com: Updates for rh-dotnet21-dotnet and rh-dotnet22-dotnet are now available for .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

Great, you’ve moved your website or app to HTTPS. How do you test it? Here’s a tool to make local TLS certs painless
Make a SAP decision: Apply these security fixes if you’re using German giant’s software

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Welcome to 2019: Your Exchange server can be pwned by an email (and other bugs need fixing)
Jeep hacking lawsuit shifts into gear for trial after US Supremes refuse to hit the brakes

LinuxSecurity.com: The __mkd_trim_line function in mkdio.c in libmarkdown.a in DISCOUNT 2.2.3a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted file (CVE-2018-11468). DISCOUNT through version 2.2.3a is vulnerable to a Heap-based

LinuxSecurity.com: Several buffer overflows when handling responses from a Muscle Card in muscle_list_files in libopensc/card-muscle.c in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to supply crafted smartcards to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact (CVE-2018-16391).