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LinuxSecurity.com: An update for slf4j 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

ATM hacker behind $1 billion malware heists arrested in Spain

LinuxSecurity.com: The package thunderbird before version 52.7.0-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary code execution and access restriction bypass.

Facebook Woes Continue as FTC Opens Data Privacy Probe
FBI: Iranian Firm Stole Data In Massive Spear Phishing Campaign
UK.gov unveils cyber security export strategy – only thing missing is the strategy
Mozilla Tests DNS over HTTPS: Meets Some Privacy Pushback
Critical Infrastructure Interview with David Harley

WeLiveSecurity sat down with David Harley to get a better understanding of Critical Infrastructure and the role he has played in the area throughout his career. The post Critical Infrastructure Interview with David Harley appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Facebook collected users’ call and SMS logs with “their permission”

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for rh-ruby23-ruby 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-mysql57-mysql 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,

YouTube isn’t for kids

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for rh-mysql56-mysql 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-ruby24-ruby 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,

Why Spectre demands more elegantly coded software

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for rh-ruby22-ruby 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-maven35-slf4j 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,

We need to go deeper: Meltdown and Spectre flaws will force security further down the stack
Hey Siri! Read me this locked iPhone’s hidden messages…
Tumblr troll-ban follows February indictments

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

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

LinuxSecurity.com: Daniel P. Berrange and Peter Krempa of Red Hat discovered a flaw in libvirt, a virtualization API. A lack of restriction for the amount of data read by QEMU Monitor socket can lead to a denial of service by exhaustion of memory resources.

Five year old vulnerability used for Monero mining on Linux servers

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LinuxSecurity.com: Wojciech Regu?a discovered that Freeplane, a program for working with mind maps, was affected by a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in its mindmap loader that could compromise a user’s machine by opening a specially crafted mind map file.

Microsoft to lock out Windows RDP clients if they are not patched against hijack bug
9 Iranian hackers charged with hacking universities & stealing secrets

LinuxSecurity.com: Samba could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 10 vulnerabilities and has 70 fixes is now available.

Guccifer 2.0 outed, Kaspersky slammed, Oz radio hacker in the slammer, and more

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

World celebrates, cyber-snoops cry as TLS 1.3 internet crypto approved
Elon Musk deletes Tesla & Space X Facebook pages for #DeleteFacebook
Senate Gives Nod To Controversial Cross-Border Data Access Bill
Nine Iranians accused of cyber-swiping 30TB+ of blueprints from unis, biz on Tehran’s orders

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LinuxSecurity.com: Sharutils could be made to execute arbitrary code if it opened a specially crafted file.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 9 vulnerabilities is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that there was a server-side request forgery exploit in adminer, a web-based database administration tool. Adminer allowed unauthenticated connections to be initiated to arbitrary

On Dark Web Your Facebook ID is worth $5.20 & Gmail ID just $1
A Closer Look at APT Group Sofacy’s Latest Targets
Ransomware Attack Cripples Several Atlanta City Systems
British doctor says his laptop was hacked & led to Aleppo hospital airstrike
Guccifer 2.0’s schoolboy error reveals he’s hacking from Moscow

LinuxSecurity.com: Cure53 discovered that in SimpleSAMLphp, in rare circumstances an invalid signature on the SAML 2.0 HTTP Redirect binding could be considered valid.

City of Atlanta computers held hostage in ransomware attack

City officials confirm that Atlanta is dealing with a cyberattack that has locked down some internal systems and is holding them hostage using ransomware The post City of Atlanta computers held hostage in ransomware attack appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Taipan – Web Application Security Scanner
Is Application Security Dead?
Firefox in 2018: We’ll tackle bad ads, breach alerts, autoplay video, says Mozilla
GitHub: Our dependency scan has found four million security flaws in public repos
Microsoft to re-enforce March patch that owns Windows over RDP
Your code is RUBBISH, says GitHub. Good thing we’re here to save you

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. Zenis Ransomware Makes Resolution Problematic for Victims Researchers recently discovered a new ransomware variant named Zenis that […]

‘R2D2’ stops disk-wipe malware before it executes evil commands
Mozilla pulls ads from Facebook after spat over privacy controls
Reflection of a QR code on PoS scanner used to own mobile payments

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has four fixes is now available.

LinuxSecurity.com: Charles Duffy discovered that the Commandline class in the utilities for the Plexus framework performs insufficient quoting of double-encoded strings, which could result in the execution of arbitrary shell commands.

LinuxSecurity.com: Alfred Farrugia and Sandro Gauci discovered an off-by-one heap overflow in the Kamailio SIP server which could result in denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

City of Atlanta’s IT gear thoroughly pwned by ransomware nasty

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the ISC DHCP client, relay and server. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues:

LinuxSecurity.com: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala discovered that an out-of-bounds memory write in the codebook parsing code of the Libtremor multimedia library could result in the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed Vorbis file is opened.

Hackers leave ransom note after wiping out MongoDB in 13 seconds
US watchdog: Scam scammers scamming scammed in scam scam

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LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities were discovered in PolarSSL, a lightweight crypto and SSL/TLS library, that allowed a remote attacker to either cause a denial-of-service by application crash, or execute arbitrary code.

Drupal Forewarns ‘Highly Critical’ Bug to be Patched Next Week
Did hackers lead warplanes to Syrian hospital after targeting British surgeon’s computer?
The Pirate Bay is Down Again for the 3rd Time in a Week
Apple To Fix Glitch Allowing Siri To Read Hidden Messages Out Loud
Teen Hacks Ledger Hardware Cryptocurrency Wallet
Glupteba is no longer part of Windigo

Latest ESET research strongly suggests that Glupteba is no longer tied to the infamous Operation Windigo. The post Glupteba is no longer part of Windigo appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Troubled Watchkeeper drones miss crucial UK flight safety certificate
Travel site Orbitz warns data breach may have exposed 880,000 payment card details
How 11 open source projects got their names
AMD promises firmware fixes for security processor bugs
A “tamper-proof” currency wallet just got backdoored by a 15-year-old
Top 7 Remote Access Apps For Linux
F-35B Block 4 software upgrades will cost Britain £345m

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite. 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 is now available for Red Hat JBoss BRMS. 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

Holy sweat! Wearables have THREE attack surfaces
Internet Society: Cryptocurrency probably not an identity system
What ends with X and won’t sue security researchers?

LinuxSecurity.com: The package lib32-libvorbis before version 1.3.6-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary code execution and denial of service.

Smashing Security #070: Facebook and Cambridge Diabolica

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in WebKitGTK+, the worst of which may lead to arbitrary code execution.

LinuxSecurity.com: Gentoo’s collectd package contains multiple vulnerabilities, the worst of which may allow local attackers to escalate privileges.

Vivaldi browser puts DuckDuckGo as default search engine for private windows
Netflix Opens Public Bug Bounty Program with $15K Payout Cap

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has four fixes is now available.

US mulls drafting gray-haired hackers during times of crisis
The Pirate Bay is down again but its Dark Web domain is up

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Zuckerberg Breaks Silence: ‘We Made Mistakes’ Regarding Cambridge Analytica Debacle
Facebook Fallout Continues as Politicians Call For Legal Action

LinuxSecurity.com: Various issues were discovered in exempi, a library to parse XMP metadata that may cause a denial-of-service or may have other unspecified impact via crafted files.

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0549