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Oh no, what a rough blow: Cosco at a lossco over ransomware tossco
Bugs in Samsung IoT Hub Leave Smart Home Open To Attack

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for ceph is now available for Red Hat Ceph Storage 2.5 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

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2241

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2252

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2242

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2240

COSCO’s American Operations Hit With Crippling Ransomware Attack
Sen. Wyden Urges Government Ban on Adobe Flash
Chrome now flags HTTP sites as “not secure”

This is bad news for many websites that have yet to embrace encrypted connections The post Chrome now flags HTTP sites as “not secure” appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for procps 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

Fake banking apps on Google Play leak stolen credit card data

Fraudsters are using bogus apps to convince users of three Indian banks to divulge their personal data The post Fake banking apps on Google Play leak stolen credit card data appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Senator calls on US Government to start killing Flash now
Malware targeting cash machines fetches top dollar on dark web

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for procps 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,

8 types of malware and how to recognize them
DHS Officials: Hundreds of US Utility Victims Infiltrated by Russian Hackers
Regional Virginia Bank Falls Victim to Coordinated $2.4M ATM Heist

LinuxSecurity.com: The package jenkins before version 2.133-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including access restriction bypass, arbitrary filesystem access, cross-site scripting and information disclosure.

I saw what you did…or did I?

It might seem legit but there are several reasons why you should not always hit the panic button when someone claims to have your email password The post I saw what you did…or did I? appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Popular Android/iOS Apps & Extensions Collecting “Highly Personal” User data
Sen. Ron Wyden: Adobe Flash is doomed, why is Uncle Sam still using it?

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Smashing Security #088: PayPal’s Venmo app even makes your drug purchases public
Skills That a ‘Next-Level’ Pentester Should Have

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LinuxSecurity.com: This update includes the latest upstream release, **httpd 2.4.34**, with multiple bug fixes and enhancements. See http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_2.4.34 for more information on the changes in this version. A security vulnerability is addressed in this update: * `mod_md`: DoS via Coredumps on specially crafted requests (CVE-2018-8011)

New variant of Kronos banking trojan spotted using Tor network
Pinterest Browser Extension Injects Unwanted Code into 5K Websites
US Homeland Security warns of latest hacker craze – ERP pwnage
Hey you smart, well-paid devs. Stop clicking on those phishing links and bringing in malware muck on your shoes
Facebook Security Exec Calls for Tightened Data Privacy

LinuxSecurity.com: New version of dcraw is available 9.28.0 Security fix for CVE-2018-5801

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2251

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

Intel Smart Sound Tech Vulnerable to Three High-Severity Bugs
Podcast: The Industrial World is Facing a Security Crisis
Mind your company’s old Twitter accounts, rather than allowing them to be hijacked by hackers
Security Technologies: ExecShield
2FA? We’ve heard of it: White hats weirded out by lack of account security in enterprise
Hook, line, and sinker: How to avoid looking ‘phish-y’

Top tips to help you avoid being caught receiving or sending phishing-looking emails The post Hook, line, and sinker: How to avoid looking ‘phish-y’ appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Reading Time: ~4 min.According to the Identity Theft Research Center, 2017 saw 1,579 data breaches—a record high, and an almost 45 percent increase from the previous year. Like many IT service providers, you’re probably getting desensitized to statistics like this. But you still have to face facts: organizations will experience a security incident sooner or […]

Endpoint Concerns Blight IIoT Security
Two-Thirds of Organizations Hit in Supply-Chain Attacks
London Calling with New Strategies to Stop Ransomware
Criminal mastermind injects malicious script into Ethereum tracker. Their message? ‘1337’
Here’s why Twitter will lock your account if you change your display name to Elon Musk
The risks associated with global Internationalized Domain Names | Salted Hash Ep 36
Safeguard your code: 17 tips to develop more-secure code
Intel Xeon workhorses boot evil maids out of the hotel: USB-based spying thwarted by fix
Want a $200k TIP? ZDI sticks bounties on bugs in big-name server code

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

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

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability has been discovered in Sympa, a modern mailing list manager, that allows write access to files on the server filesystem. This flaw allows to create or modify any file writable by the Sympa user, located on the server filesystem, using the function of Sympa

Update your devices: New Bluetooth flaw lets attackers monitor traffic

LinuxSecurity.com: The libarchive-zip-perl package is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack in Archive::Zip. It was found that the Archive::Zip module did not properly sanitize paths while extracting zip files. An attacker able to provide a specially crafted archive for processing could use

LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2018-12584 A flaw in function ConnectionBase::preparseNewBytes of resip/stack/ConnectionBase.cxx has been detected, that

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for thunderbird 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, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for thunderbird 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

Kronos Banking Trojan Resurfaces After Years of Silence
Google Starts Labeling All HTTP Sites as ‘Not Secure’

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for java-1.8.0-oracle is now available for Oracle Java 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 java-1.7.0-oracle is now available for Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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 java-1.7.0-oracle is now available for Oracle Java 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 java-1.8.0-oracle is now available for Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

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LinuxSecurity.com: Danny Grander reported that the unzip and untar tasks in ant, a Java based build tool like make, allow the extraction of files outside a target directory. An attacker can take advantage of this flaw by submitting a specially crafted Zip or Tar archive to an ant build to

Emotet Malware Evolves Beyond Banking to Threat Delivery Service
Apache, IBM Patch Critical Cloud Vulnerability

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for kernel 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,

Bluetooth Bug Allows Man-in-the-Middle Attacks on Phones, Laptops

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

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

Oracle Re-Patches Decade-Old Solaris Bug
Dust yourself off and try again: Ancient Solaris patch missed the mark
IBM fixes flaw that let hackers replace its serverless code with their own
Bluetooth bug could expose devices to snoopers

Patches have already been released or are expected to see the light of day soon The post Bluetooth bug could expose devices to snoopers appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Insecure web still too prevalent: Boffins unveil HSTS wall of shame
Supplier Error Leaks Decade of Data from Carmakers
Campaign’s Election Data Exposed in Virginia
UK university domains spoofed in massive fraud campaign targeting suppliers
Privacy Questions Raised as Tech Giants Join Forces on Data Portability

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for rhev-hypervisor7 is now available for RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents Extended Lifecycle Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact

Mega medical tester pester: It smacked a big one, that malware scam, if indeed it was SamSam

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for rh-ror50-rubygem-sprockets is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. 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 rh-ror42-rubygem-sprockets is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

No big deal… Kremlin hackers ‘jumped air-gapped networks’ to pwn US power utilities
Big bad Bluetooth blunder bug battered – check for security fixes
Robo-drop: Factory bot biz ‘leaks’ automakers’ secrets onto the web
If at first you, er, make things worse, you’re probably Microsoft: Bug patch needed patching

LinuxSecurity.com: OpenJDK: insufficient index validation in PatternSyntaxException getMessage() (Concurrency, 8199547) (CVE-2018-2952) SL6 x86_64 java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.181-3.b13.el6_10.x86_64.rpm java-1.8.0-openjdk-debuginfo-1.8.0.181-3.b13.el6_10.x86_64.rpm java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-1.8.0.181-3.b13.el6_10.x86_64.rpm java-1.8.0-openjdk-debug-1.8.0.181-3.b13.el6_10.x86_64.rpm java-1.8 [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to 1.2.6 to fix a local authenticated privilege escalation bug (CVE-2018-10900). The issue has been discovered and responsibly disclosed by Denis Andzakovic: https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/NM-VPNC-Privesc

Spectre rises from the dead to bite Intel in the return stack buffer