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Hackers attempt to break into UK MPs’ email accounts, as Houses of Parliament targeted by cyber attack
UK Parliament Under “Sustained and Determined” Cyber Attack
Facebook’s new feature to prevent misuse of profile pics

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800,000 Virgin Media customer urged to change their router passwords
Someone leaked 32TB of Windows 10 internal builds and source code

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WikiLeaks’ Latest Dump Exposes CIA Hacking Tools for air-gapped PCs
Siemens Patches Vulnerabilities in SIMATIC CP, XHQ

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been found in the Apache HTTPD server. CVE-2017-3167

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Vim and gVim, the worst of which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: An out-of-bounds write in Graphite might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in jbig2dec, the worst of which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Urban Terror, the worst of which allows for the remote execution of arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that Flatpak, an application deployment framework for desktop apps insufficiently restricted file permissinons in third-party repositories, which could result in privilege escalation.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libksba which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or crash an libksba-based application. [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the Graphite font rendering engine which might result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed font file is processed.

Few Victims Reporting Ransomware Attacks to FBI
Threatpost News Wrap, June 23, 2017
Virgin Media to 800,000 Hub 2 users: Change Your Password Now
NSA Advocates Data Sharing Framework
Millennials: Meet the next generation of cybersecurity

As baby boomers retire and the employment gap in cybersecurity is plugged by generation x, we look at how millennials are set to shape the industry. The post Millennials: Meet the next generation of cybersecurity appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

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 more questions? Just ask. WannaCry Shuts Down Honda Production Plant Over the last few days, Honda officials have discovered a […]

If these universities had run an ad blocker they might have been saved from ransomware attack
Police cancel 590 speeding fines after WannaCry hits traffic cameras

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 12 vulnerabilities is now available. An update that fixes 12 vulnerabilities is now available. An update that fixes 12 vulnerabilities is now available.

Ouch! UK Govt’s Cyber Essentials scheme suffers data breach due to configuration error

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

LinuxSecurity.com: For changes see https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/52.2.0/releasenotes/

LinuxSecurity.com: This update addresses CVE-2017-1000366, a vulnerability in the dynamic linker allowing local privilege escalation.

Textalyzer Device Tells Police Everything Users Do on Their Smartphone

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Cisco Patches XXE, DOS, Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Cybereason snags $100m from Softbank to mount distribution, tech offensive
Honda plant in Japan briefly stops making cars after fresh WannaCrypt outbreak
Breach at UK.gov’s Cyber Essentials scheme exposes users to phishing attacks
Ad ‘urgently’ seeks company to build national e-ID system
Microsoft admits to disabling third-party antivirus code if Win 10 doesn’t like it
Hacker exposed bank loophole to buy luxury cars and a face tattoo
US is Number One! In sales register hacking attacks, at least
NSA had NFI about opsec: 2016 audit found laughably bad security
Stack Clash flaws blow local root holes in loads of top Linux programs
South Korean hosting co. pays $1m ransom to end eight-day outage
Mexican government accused of illegal phone hacking of citizens
Fancy buying our aircraft carrier satnav, Raytheon asks UK
US voter info stored on wide-open cloud box, thanks to bungling Republican contractor
Worried about election hacking? There’s a technology fix – Helios
It’s 2017, and UPnP is helping black-hats run banking malware
FOIA documents show the Kafkaesque state of US mass surveillance

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Emeric Boit of ANSSI reported that SPIP, a website engine for publishing, insufficiently sanitises the value from the X-Forwarded-Host HTTP header field. An unauthenticated attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause remote code execution.

LinuxSecurity.com: The system could be made to run programs as an administrator.

Average Cost of Breach Goes Down For the First Time Ever

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

Microsoft Says Fireball Threat ‘Overblown’
Microsoft PatchGuard flaw could let hackers plant rootkits on x64 Windows 10 boxen
Two Brits nabbed in connection with global plot to hack Microsoft network
Birthday Reminder looks benign but the devil’s in the details: Hooks DNS, serves dodgy ads

The strange behavior of a simple Windows application caught our attention and sparked the analysis by ESET of a previously undocumented malware. The post Birthday Reminder looks benign but the devil’s in the details: Hooks DNS, serves dodgy ads appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

UCL ransomware attack traced to malvertising campaign
WannaCry Ransomware Hits Traffic Cameras in Australia
Honeypots and the Internet of Things
WannaCry ransomware infects Australian traffic cameras, human error blamed
‘No decision’ on Raytheon GPS landing system aboard Brit aircraft carriers

LinuxSecurity.com: Disable executable stack for aarch64 builds.

NSA-Backed OpenC2.org Aims to Defend Systems at Machine Speed

LinuxSecurity.com: This update addresses CVE-2017-1000366, a vulnerability in the dynamic linker allowing local privilege escalation.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to .104. Fix mp3 playback. Security fix for CVE-2017-5087, CVE-2017-5088, CVE-2017-5089

LinuxSecurity.com: Rebuild for new luajit

Smashing Security #030: GDPR – The good and the bad

LinuxSecurity.com: Alvaro Munoz and Christian Schneider discovered that jython, an implementation of the Python language seamlessly integrated with Java, is prone to arbitrary code execution triggered when sending a serialized function to the deserializer.

LinuxSecurity.com: Aniket Nandkishor Kulkarni discovered that in tomcat7, a servlet and JSP engine, static error pages used the original request’s HTTP method to serve content, instead of systematically using the GET method. This could under certain conditions result in undesirable results,

LinuxSecurity.com: Aniket Nandkishor Kulkarni discovered that in tomcat8, a servlet and JSP engine, static error pages used the original request’s HTTP method to serve content, instead of systematically using the GET method. This could under certain conditions result in undesirable results,

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

Researcher calls the fuzz on OpenVPN, uncovers crashy vulns
Homeland Security: Putin’s hackers tried to crack electoral networks in 21 US states

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US Judge falls for email scam; loses $1 million
Microsoft Extends Edge Bug Bounty Program Indefinitely
Trump’s Cybersecurity Executive Order Under Fire

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the Chromium web browser, the worst of which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the GNU C Library, the worst of which may allow execution of arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in mbed TLS, the worst of which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Kodi, the worst of which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: A header injection vulnerability in GNU Wget might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers.

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

Honda Shut Down Plant Impacted by WannaCry
ProtonMail Launches Free ProtonVPN to Fight Online Censorship
Honda hit by WannaCry ransomware attack; shuts down plant
OpenVPN Patches Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Netflix’ Orange Is the New Black Season was Stolen Using Windows Flaw
Avaya Patches Remote Code Execution Flaw in Aura
Ztorg malware hid in Google Play to send premium-rate SMS texts, delete incoming SMS messages
WannaCryptor attack ‘may have come from Lazarus group’

Experts in the UK and the US have reportedly claimed that the recent global WannaCryptor ransomware attack was initiated by the North Korean Lazarus Group. The post WannaCryptor attack ‘may have come from Lazarus group’ appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Stack Clash vulnerabilities smash Linux defenses in the quest for root access