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Google to crack down on apps that snoop
PayPal paid $US233m for company that leaked 1.6 million records
Dirty COW redux: Linux devs patch botched patch for 2016 mess

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 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,

RSA coughs to critical-rated bug in its authentication SDK

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to the latest releases

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to the latest releases

UK government bans all Russian anti-virus software from Secret-rated systems
A Tricky PayPal Phishing Scam That Comes From Official PayPal Email

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Tor, a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system. For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to latest releases

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to latest releases

LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2017-15369 CVE-2017-15587 CVE-2017-9216 CVE-2017-14685 CVE-2017-14686 CVE-2017-14687

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to 0.6.0

Websites use your CPU to mine cryptocurrency even if you close them

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Student hacks school’s computer system to alter grades and overall GPA
Guilty: NSA bloke who took home exploits at the heart of Kaspersky antivirus slurp row
Facebook new captcha wants users to upload a clear photo of them
Apple iOS 11 security ‘downgrade’ decried as ‘horror show’
Expert gives Congress solution to vote machine cyber-security fears: Keep a paper backup
Chrome to tackle crashing issue by blocking 3rd-party software from injecting code
Ex-cop who ‘kept private copies of data’ fingers Cabinet Office minister in pr0nz at work claims
Flaw Found In Dirty COW Patch
Smashing Security podcast #055: Uber, net neutrality, and website hacks
High Court judge finds Morrisons supermarket liable for 2014 data leak
Linux laptop-flinger says bye-bye to buggy Intel Management Engine
NHS’s cyber-defenses to get a £20 million shot in the arm

The health service is now on the lookout for a partner to help run the project, having invited interested parties to tender for a contract that is set to run for three to five years. The new center is set to be based in the English city of Leeds. The post NHS’s cyber-defenses to get […]

What’s new in PHP 7.2: better security, code handling

The Cyber News Rundown brings you the latest happenings in cyber 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. US Military Files Found on Publicly Available Server In the past week, researchers have discovered several publicly […]

The Cyber News Rundown brings you the latest happenings in cyber 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. US Military Files Found on Publicly Available Server In the past week, researchers have discovered several publicly […]

Stop us if you’ve heard this one: Russian hacker thrown in US slammer for $59m bank fraud
Protecting your data from ransomware
Google Chrome vows to carpet bomb meddling Windows antivirus tools

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Crypto-cash souk Coinbase forced to rat out its high rollers to probing US taxmen
How to Safely Store Cryptocurrency – Review of 5 Safest Bitcoin Wallets
Cisco Patches Critical Playback Bugs in WebEx Players
RAT Distributed Via Google Drive Targets East Asia
Lauri Love extradition appeal judges reserve decision
Hackers Breach GitHub Repository for Bitcoin Gold Windows Wallet
Uber hack: EU data protection bods launch taskforce
Firefox to warn users when visiting breached websites

The extension currently includes an input field that users can use to subscribe an email address in order to receive an alert when they may be affected by a future breach. The post Firefox to warn users when visiting breached websites appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

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Hey girl, what’s that behind your Windows task bar? Looks like a hidden crypto-miner…
Shipping giant refuses to pay hackers ransom after data stolen

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Wondering why your internal .dev web app has stopped working?

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Tech Talk: Uber hack, Google tracks, AWS packs (in China) … and Firefox is back
Canadian hacker behind 500M Yahoo hack reveals Russian connection​
As Apple fixes macOS root password hole, here’s what went wrong
Apple Announces Emergency Patch to Fix High Sierra Login Bug

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

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Apple fixes root password bug: ‘Install this update as soon as possible’
Unprotected S3 Cloud Bucket Exposed 100GB of Classified NSA Data
ESET malware researchers awarded prize in open-source memory forensics competition

The Volatility Foundation, the non-profit organization behind the Volatility Framework, sponsors the yearly Volatility Plugin Contest to acknowledge the best forensic tools built on the Volatility platform. The post ESET malware researchers awarded prize in open-source memory forensics competition appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

macOS High Sierra bug lets anyone unlock Mac without password
Uber says 2.7 MEEELLION(ish) UK users affected by hack
Hacked Brit shipping giant Clarksons: A person may release some of our data today

LinuxSecurity.com: Two vulnerabilities were discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library. CVE-2017-8816

Android spyware found secretly recording WhatsApp, Viber, and Skype chats
Smashing Security podcast #054: A great big fat macOS bug
Keyless convenience or security risk? Car theft in action

Exactly how does the attack work and is it expensive to create? The attack, while seeming to be technology voodoo, is actually rather simple. It requires a transmitting relay near the key and a second relay near the car to receive the relayed signals and mimic the key. The post Keyless convenience or security risk? […]

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 7.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for samba4 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

Accused hacker Lauri Love’s extradition appeal begins

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for tcmu-runner is now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.3.1 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

Canadian! fella! admits! hacking! Gmail! inboxes! amid! Yahoo! megahack!
Critical Apple Login Bug Puts macOS High Sierra Systems at Risk
Uber hack coverup: Your next US state lawsuit arrives in four minutes
Huge MacOS bug lets anyone login as root without a password: what you need to know

LinuxSecurity.com: Harden the Slurm build and allows it to operate in full relro with GOT sections of the ELF binaries marked read-only.

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LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2017-12629

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LinuxSecurity.com: rebase to version 1.2.2, solves CVE-2017-16227, solves error produced by install script

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for apr is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 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,

Leaky AWS Storage Bucket Spills Military Secrets, Again
Gone in Seconds: Hackers Steal Mercedes Car without Key

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for procmail 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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

US intelligence blabs classified Linux VM to world via leaky S3 silo

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Pro tip: You can log into macOS High Sierra as root with no password
Google Detects and Boots Tizi Spyware Off Google Play
Hackers are digging into Microsoft Word flaw that existed for last 17 year