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LinuxSecurity.com: The package mupdf before version 1.12.0-2 is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution.

Tor Proxy Used By Cybercriminals To Initiate Bitcoin Theft

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

I’ll torpedo Tor weirdos, US AG storms: Feds have ‘already infiltrated’ darknet drug souks
Unsanitary Firefox gets fix for critical HTML-handling hijack flaw

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for collectd is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 Operational Tools 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

Car-share biz GoGet became data share biz after 2017 hack attack

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple security issues have been found in Thunderbird, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, denial of service or URL spoofing. For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for openstack-nova is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 (Pike). 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: An update for erlang is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 (Pike). Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

Ethereum Startup Leaves Penis for Investors & Vanishes with $11
Kremlin social media trolls aren’t actually that influential, study finds
Cisco Patches Critical VPN Vulnerability
Attackers can Bypass Fingerprint Authentication in Lenovo devices
Scammers become the scammed: Ransomware payments diverted with Tor proxy trickery
Stop dilly-dallying. Block all ads on YouTube

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

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

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

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

Privacy of fitness tracking apps in the spotlight after soldiers’ exercise routes shared online
Keylogger found on thousands of WordPress-based sites
F-35 flight tests are being delayed by onboard software snafus
Maybe you should’ve stuck with NetWare: Hijackers can bypass Active Directory controls
Crooks make US ATMs spew million-plus bucks in ‘jackpotting’ hacks
Ugly, perfect ten-rated bug hits Cisco VPNs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jackpotting attacks hit U.S. ATMs; spit out cash in seconds
Ploutus.D Malware Variant Used in U.S.-based ATM Jackpotting Attacks
Intel alerted Chinese cloud giants ‘before US govt’ about CPU bugs

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

What do you press when flaws in Bluetooth panic buttons are exposed?
Phishing Scam: Hackers Steal $150,000 in Ethereum from Experty ICO
Strava’s Global Heat Map Exposes User Locations Including Military Bases
UK infrastructure firms to face £17m fine if their cybersecurity sucks
Thar she blows: Strava heat map shows folk on shipwreck packed with 1,500 tonnes of bombs
Ready for the EU’s GDPR compliance deadline? Many companies aren’t | Salted Hash Ep 16

LinuxSecurity.com: The package lib32-glibc before version 2.26-11 is vulnerable to privilege escalation.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package glibc before version 2.26-11 is vulnerable to privilege escalation.

You can’t ignore Spectre. Look, it’s pressing its nose against your screen
You publish 20,000 clean patches, but one goes wrong and you’re a PC-crippler forever
Microsoft works weekends to kill Intel’s shoddy Spectre patch
All your base are belong to us: Exercise app maps military sites, reveals where spies jog
CrossRAT keylogging malware targets Linux, macOS & Windows PCs

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security update

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 11 vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability has been discovered in Fossil allowing for user-assisted remote execution of arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the libtiff library and the included tools, which may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the FFmpeg multimedia framework, which could result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code if malformed files/streams are processed.

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

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

Phishing Scam: Hackers Steal $900,000 from County Office

security update

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 11 vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability has been discovered in the libtiff image processing library which may result in an application crash and denial of service.

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability has been discovered in the libtiff image processing library which may result in an application crash and denial of service.

Hackers are using YouTube Ads to Mine Monero Cryptocurrency
Tech Talk ep 5 pt 1: The beginning of the end of the password in 2018
How We Built an Intrusion Detection System on AWS using Open Source Tools
DevOps and Security: How to Overcome Cultural Challenges and Transform to True DevSecOps
Beware! Undetectable CrossRAT malware targets Windows, MacOS, and Linux systems
Crypto-jackers slip Coinhive mining code into YouTube site ads
Lenovo Fixes Hardcoded Password Flaw Impacting ThinkPad Fingerprint Scanners

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Kamil Frankowicz and Young found that several parsers of wireshark could be crashed by malformed packets.

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

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

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

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: OpenSSH was found to be vulnerable to out of order NEWKEYS messages which could crash the daemon, resulting in a denial of service attack. For Debian 7 “Wheezy”, these problems have been fixed in version

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 two vulnerabilities is now available.

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

Coincheck cryptocurrency exchange hacked; $534 Million stolen
Lenovo’s craptastic fingerprint scanner has a hardcoded password
Keylogger Campaign Returns, Infecting 2,000 WordPress Sites
Tech Talk: IT trends for 2018 – passwords on the way out, blockchain evolves
NotPetya attack: Maersk reinstalled 45,000 PCs, 2,500 apps & 4,000 servers

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Babies’ personal data hawked on dark web

The price puts the data records at a significant premium when compared to other stolen datasets. While, in general, many adverts in the dark recesses of the internet are fake, children’s personally identifiable information (PII) has for long been viewed as a particularly valuable commodity. The post Babies’ personal data hawked on dark web appeared […]

Keylogger found on thousands of WordPress-based sites, stealing every keypress as you type
How Dutch intelligence spied on the Russian hackers attacking the DNC