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Putting cybersecurity first: Why secure‑by‑design must be the norm

Organizations that aim to pull ahead of the competition need to develop a strong security culture from top to bottom The post Putting cybersecurity first: Why secure‑by‑design must be the norm appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

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One security issue has been discovered in mosquitto: MQTT message broker. A null dereference vulnerability was found which could lead to crashes for applications using the library.

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that solves two vulnerabilities, contains one feature and has one errata is now available.

An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available.

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It was discovered that Qt incorrectly handled certain XBM image files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted PPM file, a remote attacker could cause Qt to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-17507)

It was discovered that openCryptoki incorrectly handled certain EC keys. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a invalid curve attack. References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29328

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An update is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

Millions of Android Users Scammed in SMS Fraud Driven by Tik-Tok Ads

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.9.4 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements. This release includes a security update for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.9.

Matrix for the masses platform Element One goes live: $5 a month with WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram bridges

An update that fixes 16 vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available.

Ransomware gang outraged at “bandit-mugging behavior of the United States” after REvil group pushed offline

Several security issues were fixed in libslirp.

Apport could be made to create files as the administrator.

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If you’re using this hijacked NPM library anywhere in your software stack, read this
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Google Chromebook devices could rightly be called a game-changer for education. These low-cost laptops are within financial reach for far more families than their more expensive competitors, a fact that proved crucial with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic at the beginning of last year. During that period, Google donated more than 4,000 Chromebook devices […]

CISA Urges Sites to Patch Critical RCE in Discourse

An update for redis is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens). Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 5.10.75 and fixes atleast the following security issues: A memory leak in the ccp_run_aes_gcm_cmd() function in drivers/crypto/ ccp/ccp-ops.c in the Linux kernel allows malicious users to cause a

This kernel update is based on upstream 5.10.75 and fixes atleast the following security issues: A memory leak in the ccp_run_aes_gcm_cmd() function in drivers/crypto/ ccp/ccp-ops.c in the Linux kernel allows malicious users to cause a

SolarWinds attacker on the move: Russia’s Nobelium crew has trebled attacks targeting MSPs, cloud resellers, says Microsoft
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Several security issues were fixed in GNU binutils.

HIV Scotland fined £10,000 for BCC email blunder identifying names of virus-carriers’ patient-advocates

Several security issues were fixed in MySQL.

An update that solves 6 vulnerabilities and has four fixes is now available.

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This update provides the upstream 6.1.28 maintenance release that fixes atleast the following security vulnerabilities: Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox prior to 6.1.28 contains an easily exploitable vulnerability that allows high privileged attacker with

Several issues have been found in faad2, a freeware Advanced Audio Decoder player. They are related to heap buffer overflows or null pointer dereferences, which both might allow an attacker to execute code by

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Do not include params in exception when a call to set_options fails. Additionally, block the exception that is returned from being displayed to stdout. (CVE-2021-3620) References:

Flatpak apps with direct access to AF_UNIX sockets such as those used by Wayland, Pipewire or pipewire-pulse can trick portals and other host-OS services into treating the Flatpak app as though it was an ordinary, non-sandboxed host-OS process, by manipulating the VFS using recent mount-related syscalls that are not blocked by Flatpak’s denylist seccomp

A vulnerability in the JNDI Realm of Apache Tomcat allows an attacker to authenticate using variations of a valid user name and/or to bypass some of the protection provided by the LockOut Realm. (CVE-2021-30640) Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.6, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.46 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.66

A bug was found in containerd where pulling and extracting a specially-crafted container image can result in Unix file permission changes for existing files in the host’s filesystem. Changes to file permissions can deny access to the expected owner of the file, widen access to others, or set extended bits like setuid, setgid, and sticky.

Security fix for CVE-2021-39360

## 2021-10-12, Version 14.18.1 ‘Fermium’ (LTS), @danielleadams This is a security release. ### Notable changes * **CVE-2021-22959**: HTTP Request Smuggling due to spaced in headers (Medium) * The http parser accepts requests with a space (SP) right after the header name before the colon. This can lead to HTTP Request Smuggling (HRS). More details will […]

Remote access has helped us become more interconnected than ever before. In the United States alone, two months into the pandemic, approximately 35% of the workforce was teleworking. The growth of remote access allowed individuals to work with organizations and teams they don’t physically see or meet. However, the demand for remote access has critical […]

FIN7 Lures Unwitting Security Pros to Carry Out Ransomware Attacks

The package nodejs-lts-erbium before version 12.22.7-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary code execution, url request injection and certificate verification bypass.

The package nodejs-lts-fermium before version 14.18.1-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary code execution, url request injection and certificate verification bypass.

The package nodejs before version 16.11.1-1 is vulnerable to url request injection.

Better late than never: Microsoft rolls out a public preview of E2EE in Teams calls
REvil Servers Shoved Offline by Governments – But They’ll Be Back, Researchers Say
Cybersecurity careers: What to know and how to get started

Want to help make technology safer for everyone? Love solving puzzles? Looking for a rewarding career? Break into cybersecurity! Insights from ESET researchers Aryeh Goretsky and Cameron Camp will put you on the right track. The post Cybersecurity careers: What to know and how to get started appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

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Several security issues were fixed in Mailman.

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

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TA551 Shifts Tactics to Install Sliver Red-Teaming Tool
Gigabyte Allegedly Hit by AvosLocker Ransomware
US Government warns of BlackMatter ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure
We regret to inform you there’s an RCE vuln in old version of WinRAR. Yes, the file decompression utility