Back in January, I wrote one of my most popular posts ever: “Why you don’t need an RFID-blocking wallet.” As the title suggests, I argued that it’s a waste of money to buy a wallet with special shielding to protect your chipped credit card from RFID scanners wielded by street criminals seeking to snatch your […]
Targeted online guessing represents a major threat to online security, according to new research. The post Targeted online guessing ‘a major threat to online security’ appeared first on WeLiveSecurity.
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for pacemaker 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, [More…]
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
LinuxSecurity.com: Add patch to fix dnf module groupinstall handling —- Update to new ansible2.2 version. For full changes see:https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.2/CHANGELOG.md
LinuxSecurity.com: This update fixes a rare ocasion where ghostscript would fail when displaying*.ps files. More info can be found[here](http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697286). —- This is asecurity update for these CVEs: *[CVE-2016-8602](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383940) – *checkfor sufficient params in .sethalftone5* *[CVE-2016-7977](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380415) – *.libfiledoes not honor -dSAFER* [This CVE is now correctly fixed, previous release wasaccidentally missing the fix.]
LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2016-6293
LinuxSecurity.com: The 4.8.6 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.
LinuxSecurity.com: October 2016 CPU fixes: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html#AppendixJAVA
LinuxSecurity.com: – new upstream version (49.0.2)
LinuxSecurity.com: Bump version to 1.3.5.15-1
LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2016-7035 (improper IPC guarding)
LinuxSecurity.com: – fix cookie injection for other servers (CVE-2016-8615) – compare user/passwdcase-sensitively while reusing connections (CVE-2016-8616) – base64: check forinteger overflow on large input (CVE-2016-8617) – fix double-free in krb5 code(CVE-2016-8619) – fix double-free in curl_maprintf() (CVE-2016-8618) – fix globparser write/read out of bounds (CVE-2016-8620) – fix out-of-bounds read incurl_getdate() (CVE-2016-8621) – fix URL unescape […]
There are a great many tools available to help quickly analyze the behavior of mobile malware samples. In the case of Android, one such app is AppMon. The post How to do an APK Analysis Using AppMon appeared first on WeLiveSecurity.
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for java-1.7.0-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…]
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for java-1.6.0-ibm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…]
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Computer safety has never been more of a necessity, regardless of your location in the world. This week’s cyber news recap spans from Western Europe to Australia, with a variety of threats that everyday users may face themselves. UK Hospital System Hit with Malware In the last few days, a hospital network in the UK was […]
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LinuxSecurity.com: An update for docker is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…]
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LinuxSecurity.com: An update for bind 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, [More…]
Liberia has been hit with a harmful DDoS attack yet, with most of its residents unable to get online. The Mirai botnet is the cause. The post Colossal DDoS attack in Liberia wipes majority of country offline appeared first on WeLiveSecurity.
ESET’s Michael Aguilar takes a deep dive into SMS/messaging clients, security, and privacy. The post I can see your texts: A deep dive into SMS/messaging clients, security, and privacy appeared first on WeLiveSecurity.
UK-based bookmaker William Hill has been hit with a DDoS attack, preventing many of its customers from being able to access its main website. The post William Hill website hit with DDoS attack appeared first on WeLiveSecurity.
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Oracle’s JRE and JDK software suites allowing remote attackers to remotely execute arbitrary code, obtain information, and cause Denial of Service.
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in both LibreOffice and OpenOffice, the worst of which allows for the remote execution of arbitrary code.
LinuxSecurity.com: New curl packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. [More Info…]
LinuxSecurity.com: New bind packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue. [More Info…]
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
LinuxSecurity.com: This update addresses multiple security problems and fixes systemd dependencies.
LinuxSecurity.com: This update addresses multiple security problems and fixes systemd dependencies.
LinuxSecurity.com: the new package fixes the CVE-2016-7966. for more info please take a look athttps://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20161006-1.txt
LinuxSecurity.com: This update backports an upstream patch to fix multiple integer overflows(CVE-2016-9085).
