January 20, 2017
Ransomware attack hits St Louis Public library
Threatpost News Wrap, January 20, 2017
January 20, 2017
Trump’s ‘cyber tsar’ Giuliani among creds leaked in mass hacks
January 20, 2017
Email Encryption Service Provider ‘ProtonMail’ Now on Tor
January 20, 2017
MongoDB Hacks Spreading Fast In the past few weeks, researchers have been monitoring the steady rise of hacked MongoDB installations, now surpassing over 28,000 individual systems. While the attacks started with ransoming back the stolen data, the attackers have now begun simply deleting the information from the database and leaving the ransom note for payment […]
January 20, 2017
Attackers start wiping data from CouchDB and Hadoop databases
January 20, 2017
How to wake the enterprise from IoT security nightmares
January 20, 2017
Microsoft’s standing to sue over secret US data requests in question
January 20, 2017
Fake news alert! Internet breaches are not cloud breaches
January 20, 2017
Unbreakable Locky ransomware is on the march again
January 20, 2017
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for java-1.8.0-openjdk 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 [More…]
January 20, 2017
Viral Chinese selfie app Meitu phones home with personal data
January 20, 2017
Operator of DDoS protection service named as Mirai author
January 20, 2017
Smashing Security #004: ‘You don’t mess with Brian Krebs’
January 19, 2017
The Changing Face of Carbanak
January 19, 2017
Google Maps Will Soon Find Parking Spot for You
January 19, 2017
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for python-XStatic-jquery-ui is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…]
January 19, 2017
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for openstack-cinder is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…]
January 19, 2017
LinuxSecurity.com: Updated openstack-cinder packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7. [More…]
January 19, 2017
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for openstack-cinder is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…]
January 19, 2017
ProtonMail Gets Own Tor-Accessible .Onion Hidden Service
January 19, 2017
Locky Limps Back into Action After Lull
January 19, 2017
Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) has been growing steadily since it made its debut in 2015 with Tox. With the new Satan service, it’s easier than ever. The idea is to use this web portal to contract threat actors to create new ransomware samples for distribution via the desired attack vector. This allows any potential […]
January 19, 2017
Cybersecurity skills shortage ‘still a global problem’
There are signs of improvement in the global cybersecurity skills gap, but serious problems still remain, a new report finds. The post Cybersecurity skills shortage ‘still a global problem’ appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
January 19, 2017
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
January 19, 2017
Samsung SmartCam owners warned of hacker hijack vulnerability
January 19, 2017
Quimitchin Malware Targeting Mac Users also Compatible with Linux
January 19, 2017
‘Beeeellion-dollar’ mastercrooks in hotel, restaurant blitzkrieg
January 19, 2017
Facebook, Researcher at Odds Over Messenger Issue
January 19, 2017
Android Scoring System Roots Out Malicious, Harmful Apps
January 19, 2017
Justine Bone on St. Jude Vulnerabilities and Medical Device Security
January 19, 2017
Trump inauguration DDoS protest is ‘illegal’, warn securobods
January 19, 2017
Google Infrastructure Security Design Overview
January 19, 2017
Oracle to Java devs: Stop signing JAR files with MD5
January 19, 2017
Insecure Hadoop installs next in ‘net scum crosshairs
January 19, 2017
Adobe’s naughty Chrome telemetry code had XSS problem
January 19, 2017
Risk Level: Very Low.
January 19, 2017
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
January 19, 2017
security update
January 19, 2017
Silence is golden: How Google hunts Android malware in the wild
January 18, 2017
Carbanak Using Google Services for Command and Control
January 18, 2017
Skills gap could hold back blockchain, AI, IoT advancements in 2017
January 18, 2017
Docker Patches Container Escape Vulnerability
January 18, 2017
“Highest average score for ease of use, quality of support, and […] requirements in endpoint protection.” That’s how Marty Duffy, Director of Research at G2 Crowd, describes Webroot after seeing the results of this year’s G2 Crowd survey on Best Software for IT Teams 2017. We’d be lying if we said we weren’t over the […]
January 18, 2017
LinuxSecurity.com: **Version 5.2.22** (January 5th 2017) * **SECURITY** Fix[CVE-2017-5223](https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2017-5223),local file disclosure vulnerability if content passed to `msgHTML()` is sourcedfrom unfiltered user input. Reported by Yongxiang Li of Asiasecurity. The fixfor this means that calls to `msgHTML()` without a `$basedir` will not importimages with relative URLs, and relative URLs containing `..` will be ignored. *Add simple […]
January 18, 2017
LinuxSecurity.com: This new point release fixes a security vulnerability in wrestool. For furtherdetails see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=850017
January 18, 2017
LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2016-9888
January 18, 2017
LinuxSecurity.com: This new point release fixes a security vulnerability in wrestool. For furtherdetails see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=850017
January 18, 2017
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for kernel-rt 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…]
January 18, 2017
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, [More…]
January 18, 2017
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for kernel 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…]
January 18, 2017
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which [More…]
January 18, 2017
UK’s ICO releases new guidelines for becoming GDPR ready
The UK’s ICO has released a new set of guidelines aimed at ensuring companies are adequately prepared for the introduction of the GDPR. The post UK’s ICO releases new guidelines for becoming GDPR ready appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
January 18, 2017
Cyber Criminals Held Cancer Services Computers for Ransom
January 18, 2017
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
January 18, 2017
Oracle patches raft of vulnerabilities in business applications
January 18, 2017
How—and why—you should use a VPN any time you hop on the internet
January 18, 2017
Passwords: A long goodbye
January 18, 2017
Flashback Wednesday: Pakistani Brain
This month’s Flashback Wednesday takes us back to the beginning. Pakistani Brain, discovered on January 19th, is considered to be the first-ever PC virus. The post Flashback Wednesday: Pakistani Brain appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
January 18, 2017
WikiLeaks’ Assange confident of winning ‘any fair trial’ in the US
January 18, 2017
Can a DDoS attack on Whitehouse.gov be a valid protest?
January 18, 2017
Spora Ransomware Offers Victims Unique Payment Options
January 18, 2017
Understanding The Basics Of Two-Factor Authentication
January 18, 2017
Hacker cracks Facebook with remote code execution bug
January 18, 2017
Ransomware scum infect cancer non-profit
January 18, 2017
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for runc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which [More…]
January 18, 2017
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…]
January 18, 2017
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for docker-latest is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…]
January 18, 2017
Kill it with fire: US-CERT urges admins to firewall off Windows SMB
January 18, 2017
Thanks to Obama: Chelsea Manning will be out in May 2017
January 17, 2017
New RCE Flaws Found in Samsung Smartcam
January 17, 2017
Gmail Phishing Scam Stealing Credentials Through Infected Attachment
January 17, 2017
Vulnerabilities Leave iTunes, App Store Open to Script Injection
January 17, 2017
Sensitive access tokens and keys found in hundreds of Android apps
January 17, 2017
LinuxSecurity.com: NVIDIA graphics drivers could be made to crash under certain conditions.
January 17, 2017
The unseemly world of Darkweb marketplaces
January 17, 2017
LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libxml2, the worst of which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
January 17, 2017
LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2016-9131, CVE-2016-9147, CVE-2016-9444
January 17, 2017
LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2016-9131, CVE-2016-9147, CVE-2016-9444
January 17, 2017
LinuxSecurity.com: This update avoids a malicious repository writing to files outside the localstorage root.
January 17, 2017