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Citadel “mechanic” receives five year prison sentence

A Russian man has been sentenced to five years in prison for helping develop the Citadel malware, which was used to steal personal financial information. It cost more than $5 million in losses. The post Citadel “mechanic” receives five year prison sentence appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

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Privacy and The Digital World

LinuxSecurity.com: New upstream release: 2.4.5

LinuxSecurity.com: build experimental command line interface “kresc”

Mid-year review: Have our security trends for 2017 become reality?

We are halfway through the year and it is a good opportunity to analyze the extent to which the ideas we gathered in the Trends 2017: Security Held Ransom report have come true. The post Mid-year review: Have our security trends for 2017 become reality? appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Zero-Day Exploit Surfaces that May Affect Millions of IoT Users
Let’s harden Internet crypto so quantum computers can’t crack it

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that ruby-mixlib-archive, a Chef Software’s library used to handle various archive formats, was vulnerable to a directory traversal attack. This allowed attackers to overwrite arbitrary files by using a malicious tar archive containing “..” in its entries.

Smashing Security #034: The pen is mightier than the password

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Publication of NukeBot trojan’s source code leads to new ‘operational’ samples

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

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Senator Calls For Use Of DMARC To Curb Phishing

Type: Vulnerability. Cisco WebEx Browser Extension is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Millions of IoT devices at hacking risk due to flaw in open source software library
Ransomware attack on KQED TV, Radio Station wiped out pre-recorded segments
How Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode Can Prevent E-commerce Chargebacks
Woman arrested for smuggling 102 iPhones, 15 Watches to China
Ships Can Be Hacked By Exploiting VSAT Communication System
Modified Versions of Nukebot in Wild Since Source Code Leak
Texting is no laughing matter

LinuxSecurity.com: LibTIFF could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

LinuxSecurity.com: OpenLDAP could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

LinuxSecurity.com: This is an update fixing CVE-2017-10965 and CVE-2017-10966.

Linux Users Urged to Update as a New Threat Exploits SambaCry
IBM’s Plan To Encrypt Unthinkable Amounts of Sensitive Data
Bad Code Library Triggers Devil’s Ivy Vulnerability in Millions of IoT Devices

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OneLogin: Businesses vulnerable to data breaches by ex-employees

Businesses leave themselves open to potential data breaches through their ex-employees, according to a new study by OneLogin. The post OneLogin: Businesses vulnerable to data breaches by ex-employees appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Watch: Man’s smartphone reboots every time he calls 911
Oracle Releases Biggest Update Ever: 308 Vulnerabilities Patched
Oracle E-Business Suite Flaw Allows Downloads of Documents
CoinDash Hacked During its ICO
Privacy Activists Suffer Legal Setback In National Security Letter Case
Myspace fixes account security hole – but delete your account anyway

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Hackers Can Breach Burglar Alarm System with $142 Device
FedEx: It is still suffering the aftermath of Petya attack
Didn’t get your Oreo cookie shipment? Last month’s global cyber attack may be to blame
Spyware abuses Telegram messaging app to target Iranian Android users
Security Robot Found “Drowned” in An Indoor Fountain
It’s a trap! Marcher banking trojan masquerades as Adobe Flash Player for Android
Ethereum cryptocurrency heist! Over $7 million reportedly stolen through simple hack

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

A major cyberattack could cost the global economy $53 billion

Lloyd’s of London have reported that a serious cyberattack could cost the global economy as much as a devastating natural disaster. The post A major cyberattack could cost the global economy $53 billion appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Botnet Tweeting, Spamming Porn Shut Down
Cisco Patches Another Critical Ormandy Bug in WebEx Extension
CoinDash’ Token Sale Site Hacked; $7 Million Ethereum Stolen

LinuxSecurity.com: * various flaws: CVE-2017-7515 CVE-2017-9775 CVE-2017-9776 CVE-2017-9865 —- * CVE-2017-9406 CVE-2017-9408 various memory leak flaws

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2017-10989: Heap-buffer overflow in the getNodeSize function Additionally sqlite has been updated to version 3.19.3, and spatialite-tools rebuilt for the update.

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2017-10989: Heap-buffer overflow in the getNodeSize function Additionally sqlite has been updated to version 3.19.3, and spatialite-tools rebuilt for the update.

FreeRADIUS Update Patches Bugs Static Analysis Tools Missed
Fake WhatsApp Subscription Email Stealing Banking Data
GhostCtrl Android Malware Records Audio, Video and Spies on Users
Free Certs Come With a Cost
Want to a hack a Myspace account? They’ve made it shockingly easy

LinuxSecurity.com: The 4.11.10 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Unix: How random is random?
White House released voter-fraud commenters’ sensitive personal information
Want to kill your IT security team? Put the top hacker in charge

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2017-10989: Heap-buffer overflow in the getNodeSize function

LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2017-1000381: c-ares NAPTR parser out of bounds access

Malware installs Signal as part of scheme to steal Mac users’ banking credentials

LinuxSecurity.com: – CVE-2017-1000083: Evince command injection vulnerability in CBT handler (#1468488)

LinuxSecurity.com: File /etc/sysconfig/httpd is ghosted now —- Version update —- Security fix for CVE-2017-3167 CVE-2017-3169 CVE-2017-7659 CVE-2017-7668 CVE-2017-7679

LinuxSecurity.com: This update updates QtWebEngine to the 5.9.1 release, a security and bugfix release from the 5.9 branch. QtWebEngine 5.9.1 is part of the Qt 5.9.1 release, but only the QtWebEngine component is included in this update. The update fixes the following security issues in QtWebEngine 5.9.0: CVE-2017-5070, CVE-2017-5071, CVE-2017-5075, CVE-2017-5076, CVE-2017-5077, CVE-2017-5078,

LinuxSecurity.com: New stable upstream release, primarily includes security fixes for CVE-2017-10794, CVE-2017-10799, CVE-2017-10800 See also http://www.graphicsmagick.org/NEWS.html#july-4-2017

Giveaway: Download Millions of Free Microsoft E-books

LinuxSecurity.com: Jeffrey Altman, Viktor Dukhovni, and Nicolas Williams reported that Heimdal, an implementation of Kerberos 5 that aims to be compatible with MIT Kerberos, trusts metadata taken from the unauthenticated plaintext (Ticket), rather than the authenticated and encrypted KDC response. A

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You can buy password stealing malware ‘Ovidiy Stealer’ for $7

LinuxSecurity.com: Samba could allow unintended access to network services.

LinuxSecurity.com: Heimdal could allow unintended access to network services.

LinuxSecurity.com: Clément Berthaux from Synaktiv discovered a signature forgery vulnerability in knot, an authoritative-only DNS server. This vulnerability allows an attacker to bypass TSIG authentication by sending crafted DNS packets to a server.

LinuxSecurity.com: Felix Wilhelm discovered that the Evince document viewer made insecure use of tar when opening tar comic book archives (CBT). Opening a malicious CBT archive could result in the execution of arbitrary code. This update disables the CBT format entirely

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LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2017-10989: Heap-buffer overflow in the getNodeSize function

LinuxSecurity.com: – Update to 1.1.12 – Fix Cross-site Scripting (XSS) issue with link.php (CVE-2017-10970) Release notes: https://www.cacti.net/release_notes.php?version=1.1.11 Release notes: https://www.cacti.net/release_notes.php?version=1.1.12

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Gandi hosting’ logins breached; 751 domains diverted to malware site
OSX/Dok malware hits Macs; bypasses Apple’ Gatekeeper
Crooks Stealing Data From ATMs Using Infrared
Kerberos bypass, login theft bug slain by Microsoft, Linux slingers
Black Hat to Host Discussion on Diversity

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