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DNA testing website MyHeritage hacked; 92 million user accounts stolen
Here’s a transaction Transamerica regrets: Transgressors swipe retirees’ personal info
Drupalgeddon 2.0 Still Haunting 115K+ Sites
Loose .zips sink chips: How poisoned archives can hack your computer
Google Patches 11 Critical Android Bugs in June Update
Facebook partnered with 60+ device makers & shared users’ private data
Continental: We, er, tire of Whatsapp, Snapchat on work phones. GDPR, innit?
UK’s first transatlantic F-35 delivery flight delayed by weather
Ex-CEO on TalkTalk mega breach: It woz ‘old shed’ legacy tech wot done it
The cyberattack on banks in Mexico: The challenges posed to cybersecurity

Following the massive cyberattack on banks in Mexico, we consider what can cybersecurity can do to help the industry The post The cyberattack on banks in Mexico: The challenges posed to cybersecurity appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Social Media Privacy Dominates Apple iOS 12, macOS Launches
Misconfigured Google Groups Settings Leaking Sensitive Data

LinuxSecurity.com: **Version 3.4.11** (2018-05-25) * bug #27364 [DI] Fix bad exception on uninitialized references to non-shared services (nicolas-grekas) * bug #27359 [HttpFoundation] Fix perf issue during MimeTypeGuesser intialization (nicolas- grekas) * security #cve-2018-11408 [SecurityBundle] Fail if security.http_utils cannot be configured * security #cve-2018-11406 clear CSRF tokens when the user

Just a third of Brit cops are equipped to fight crime that is ‘cyber’
Learn what the ‘zero trust’ security model really means | Salted Hash Ep 29
End-to-end encryption doesn’t stop the FBI reading your messages. Just ask Paul Manafort
Microsoft to buy GitHub for $7.5 billion

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

Malicious Chrome & Edge extension drops backdoor and spy on users

Reading Time: ~4 min.Nearly 50% of Americans don’t use antivirus software That’s right; something as basic as installing internet security software (which we all know we’re supposed to use) is completely ignored by about half the US. You’d be amazed how common this and other risky online behaviors are. We did a survey of people’s […]

Router reboot: How to, why to, and what not to do

The FBI say yes but should you follow this advice? And if you do follow it, do you know how to do so safely? The post Router reboot: How to, why to, and what not to do appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2016-9396

Personal data of over 50,000 Honda Connect App leaked

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes. 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 rh-java-common-xmlrpc 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,

‘Tesco probably knows more about me than GCHQ’: Infosec boffins on surveillance capitalism
False contest to win jersey of the Brazilian team found on WhatsApp

The scam circulated through WhatsApp aimed at users in Brazil claiming that Nike will give away the jersey that the team will wear at Russia 2018. The post False contest to win jersey of the Brazilian team found on WhatsApp appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

‘Moore’s Revenge’ is upon us and will make the world weird
G Suite admins need to RTFM – thousands expose internal emails

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LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that Wireshark, a network protocol analyzer, contained several vulnerabilities in the dissectors for PCP, ADB, NBAP, UMTS MAC, IEEE 802.11, SIGCOMP, LDSS, GSM A DTAP and Q.931, which result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: The redmine security update announced as DSA-4191-1 caused regressions with multi-value fields while doing queries on project issues due to an bug in the patch to address CVE-2017-15569. Updated packages are now available to correct this issue.

Steam fixes 10-year-old critical remote code execution vulnerability

LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2016-9396

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2016-5003, CVE-2016-5002

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1780

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1779

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1777

Ticketfly, Major Concert Venues Still Offline After Hack

LinuxSecurity.com: Man Yue Mo, Lars Krapf and Pierre Ernst discovered that Batik, a toolkit for processing SVG images, did not properly validate its input. This would allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service, mount cross-site scripting attacks, or access restricted files on the

A Spectre flaw solution, Cloudflare blips, a bank cyber-heist in Canada, and more in infosec land

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that Zookeeper, a service for maintaining configuration information, enforced no authentication/authorisation when a server attempts to join a Zookeeper quorum.

LinuxSecurity.com: New git packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues.

Researchers Warn of Microsoft Zero-Day RCE Bug
Browser Side-Channel Flaw De-Anonymizes Facebook Data
Stingray phone stalker tech used near White House, SS7 abused to steal US citizens’ data – just Friday things
Visa card payment network goes down across Europe
Public Google Groups Leaking Sensitive Data at Thousands of Orgs
Sonic & Ultra signals can be used to crash Windows, Linux & hard drives
An acoustic attack can bluescreen your Windows computer

Security researchers have demonstrated how attackers could cause physical damage to hard drives, and cause PCs to crash, just by playing sounds through a computer’s speaker. The post An acoustic attack can bluescreen your Windows computer appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Trends 2018: Critical infrastructure attacks on the rise

Healthcare sectors, critical manufacturing, food production and transportation also said to be targets for cybercriminals The post Trends 2018: Critical infrastructure attacks on the rise appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

OMG, that’s downright Wicked: Botnet authors twist corpse of Mirai into new threats
Brit bank TSB facepalms at critical mass as users report receiving letters meant for other people
Ticketfly website hacked & offline after hacker leaks customer data
Honda, Universal Music Group Expose Sensitive Data in Misconfig Blunders

LinuxSecurity.com: xmlrpc: Deserialization of untrusted Java object through tag (CVE-2016-5003) SL7 noarch xmlrpc-client-3.1.3-9.el7_5.noarch.rpm xmlrpc-common-3.1.3-9.el7_5.noarch.rpm xmlrpc-javadoc-3.1.3-9.el7_5.noarch.rpm xmlrpc-server-3.1.3-9.el7_5.noarch.rpm – Scientific Linux Development Team

Your F-35s need spare bits? Computer says we’ll have you sorted in… a couple of years

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream security fixes related to .gitmodules handling. From the [upstream announcement](https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqy3g2flb6.fsf@gitster- ct.c.googlers.com/): “` * Submodule “names” come from the untrusted .gitmodules file, but we blindly append them to $GIT_DIR/modules to create our on-disk repo paths. This means you can do bad things by putting “../” into the

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service. CVE-2018-1093

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream security fixes related to .gitmodules handling. From the [upstream announcement](https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqy3g2flb6.fsf@gitster- ct.c.googlers.com/): “` * Submodule “names” come from the untrusted .gitmodules file, but we blindly append them to $GIT_DIR/modules to create our on-disk repo paths. This means you can do bad things by putting “../” into the

World Cup scams: how to avoid an own goal

Whether travelling to enjoy the matches in person, or watching from home, fans should be on the lookout for foul play The post World Cup scams: how to avoid an own goal appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Europol sets up EU-wide team to fight dark web crime

Embedded within the agency’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), the new team will also work together with law enforcement globally in an effort to reduce the size of the underground illegal economy The post Europol sets up EU-wide team to fight dark web crime appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

More curious, less cautious: Protecting kids online

How we can help protect a generation for which digital is the way of the world? The post More curious, less cautious: Protecting kids online appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

An advert against online privacy

Reading Time: ~2 min.The Cyber News Rundown brings you the latest happenings in cybersecurity news weekly. Who am I? I’m Connor Madsen, a Webroot Threat Research Analyst and a guy with a passion for all things security. Any questions? Just ask. Mercedes Keyless Entry Leads to Car Theft It was discovered this week that criminals […]

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 24 vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 24 vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: Applications using Oslo middleware could be made to expose sensitiveinformation.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the libtiff library and the included tools, which may result in denial of service: CVE-2017-11613

LinuxSecurity.com: The Qualys Research Labs discovered multiple vulnerabilities in procps, a set of command line and full screen utilities for browsing procfs. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

ICANN Launches GDPR Lawsuit to Clarify the Future of WHOIS

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for xmlrpc 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

Nocturnal Stealer Lets Low-Skilled Cybercrooks Harvest Sensitive Info
Paris Police Arrests Alleged Vevo Hackers
Huawei Patches Four Server Bugs Rated High Severity

LinuxSecurity.com: xmlrpc: Deserialization of untrusted Java object through tag (CVE-2016-5003) SL6 noarch xmlrpc3-client-3.0-4.17.el6_9.noarch.rpm xmlrpc3-common-3.0-4.17.el6_9.noarch.rpm xmlrpc3-client-devel-3.0-4.17.el6_9.noarch.rpm xmlrpc3-common-devel-3.0-4.17.el6_9.noarch.rpm xmlrpc3-javadoc-3.0-4.17.el6_9.noarch.rpm xmlrpc3-server-3.0-4.17.el6_9.noarch.rpm [More…]

Podcast: How Cities Can Be Security Smart
These Chrome extensions & Android apps collect your Facebook data

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for procps 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

Smashing Security #080: Country bans Facebook, eavesdropping Alexa, and PornHub VPN
Court says ‘nyet’ to Kaspersky’s US govt computer ban appeal
Yahoo hacker involved in 500 million accounts breach jailed for 5 years
Law forcing Feds to get warrants for email slurping is sneaked into US military budget

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Bug In Git Opens Developer Systems Up to Attack
Botnet Operators Team Up To Leverage IcedID, Trickbot Trojans
Inmates pirated movies from computers they build with spare parts
Yahoo! merc! hacker! Karim! Baratov! gets! five! years! in! the! clink!

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

Yahoo Hacker Sentenced; Coke Opens Up a Can of Data Breach
SpamCannibal blacklist service reanimated by squatters, claims every IP address is spammy
Git security vulnerability could lead to an attack of the (repo) clones
Google Patches 34 Browser Bugs in Chrome 67, Adds Spectre Fixes
Multiple Internet-Connected BMW vehicles vulnerable to getting hacked
Hidden Cobra Strikes Again with Custom RAT, SMB Malware