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They say the tooth will set you free… so Brit dentist trade union tells members: ‘Bad news; we’ve been hacked’
Twitter Could Face $250M FTC Fine Over Improper Data Use

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Uncle Sam blames best pal China as Taidoor crew’s dirty RAT takes aim at Western orgs, but others are less sure

libssh could be made to crash if it received a specially crafted request.

Apple Knocked Off Perch as Most Imitated Brand for Phishing Attacks
Podcast: Learning to ‘Speak the Language’ of OT Security Teams
GandCrab ransomware hacker arrested in Belgium

Reading Time: ~ 5 min. Don’t expect cybercriminals to go easy during a hurricane. Quite the opposite, in fact. Just like they’ve used the coronavirus pandemic to launch COVID-related malware scams, hackers will capitalize on the names and news coverage of hurricanes to disguise attacks. That’s why now is a good time to review your […]

postgresql-jdbc: XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in PgSQLXML (CVE-2020-13692) SL6 noarch postgresql-jdbc-8.4.704-4.el6_10.noarch.rpm – Scientific Linux Development Team

Updated ovirt-engine packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

postgresql-jdbc: XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in PgSQLXML (CVE-2020-13692) SL7 noarch postgresql-jdbc-9.2.1002-8.el7_8.noarch.rpm postgresql-jdbc-javadoc-9.2.1002-8.el7_8.noarch.rpm – Scientific Linux Development Team

Doctor, doctor, got some sad news, there’s been a bad case of hacking you: UK govt investigates email fail
Leaky AWS S3 buckets are so common, they’re being found by the thousands now – with lots of buried secrets
Days after President Trump suggests pausing election over security, US House passes $500m for states to shore up election security

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Google Updates Ad Policies to Counter Influence Campaigns, Extortion
How much is your personal data worth on the dark web?

The going prices are lower than you probably think – your credit card details, for example, can sell for a few bucks The post How much is your personal data worth on the dark web? appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Netgear Won’t Patch 45 Router Models Vulnerable to Serious Flaw
UK Defence Committee chair muses treating TikTok like Huawei: So eyeball its code then ban it from the country?
Garmin Pays Up to Evil Corp After Ransomware Attack — Reports
Linux Foundation rolls bunch of overlapping groups into one to tackle growing number of open-source security vulns
Black Hat USA 2020: Critical Meetup.com Flaws Reveal Common AppSec Holes

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

‘We stopped ransomware’ boasts Blackbaud CEO. And by ‘stopped’ he means ‘got insurance to pay off crooks’

An update for postgresql-jdbc 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,

Meetup Critical Flaws Allow ‘Group’ Takeover, Payment Theft

An update for postgresql-jdbc 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,

An update for postgresql-jdbc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

An update for postgresql-jdbc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 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,

libvncserver: websocket decoding buffer overflow (CVE-2017-18922) SL7 x86_64 libvncserver-0.9.9-14.el7_8.1.i686.rpm libvncserver-0.9.9-14.el7_8.1.x86_64.rpm libvncserver-debuginfo-0.9.9-14.el7_8.1.i686.rpm libvncserver-debuginfo-0.9.9-14.el7_8.1.x86_64.rpm libvncserver-devel-0.9.9-14.el7_8.1.i686.rpm libvncserver-devel-0.9.9-14.el7_8.1.x86_64.rpm – Scientific Linux [More…]

Oh cool, more Cisco patches to apply. Happy Monday
IoT Security Vulnerabilities are Ubiquitous: How To Secure Your Router and Your Linux System Now>

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Multiple security issues have been found in Thunderbird which could result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

It was discovered that there was an escaping issue in libphp-phpmailer, an email generation utility class for the PHP programming language.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Python, the worst of which could result in a Denial of Service condition.

In libopenmpt before 0.3.19 and 0.4.x before 0.4.9, ModPlug_InstrumentName and ModPlug_SampleName in libopenmpt_modplug.c do not restrict the lengths of libmodplug output-buffer strings in

Security fix for CVE-2020-15917 (STARTTLS protocol violation).

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Fix insufficient output escaping bug in file attachment names (CVE-2020-13625). References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26760

Twitter hack – three suspects charged in the US
Who was behind that stunning Twitter hack? State spies? Probably this Florida kid, say US prosecutors

An integer overflow in the getnum function in lua_struct.c CVE-2020-14147 References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26978

Multiple security vulnerabilites in virtualbox allow unauthorized access to critical data or takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox. See CVE references for details. References:

Updated dnsmasq package fix insecure default configuration potentially making it an open resolver (CVE-2020-14312). In its default configuration, dnsmasq listen and answer query from any address even outside of the local subnet. Thus, it may inadvertently

Bypass of boundary checks in nio.Buffer via concurrent access. (CVE-2020-14583) Incomplete bounds checks in Affine Transformations. (CVE-2020-14593)

The CBC padding operations were not constant time and as a result would leak the length of the plaintext values which were being padded to an attacker running a side channel attack via shared resources such as cache or branch predictor. No information about the contents was leaked, but the length alone might be used […]

Travel company CWT avoids ransomware derailment by paying $4.5m blackmail demand
4 Unpatched Bugs Plague Grandstream ATAs for VoIP Users
Authorities Arrest Alleged 17-Year-Old ‘Mastermind’ Behind Twitter Hack
CWT Travel Agency Faces $4.5M Ransom in Cyberattack, Report
Anti-NATO Disinformation Campaign Leveraged CMS Compromises

An update that fixes 10 vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

A flaw in PyCrypto allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in SNMP Trap Translator, the worst of which could allow attackers to execute arbitrary shell code.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in WebKitGTK+, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

Twitter: Epic Account Hack Caused by Mobile Spearphishing
First rule of Ransomware Club is do not pay the ransom, but it looks like Carlson Wagonlit Travel didn’t get the memo
Black Hat USA 2020 Preview: Election Security, COVID Disinformation and More

An update for jenkins-2-plugins is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

Burn baby burn, plastic inferno! Infosec researchers turn 3D printers into self-immolating suicide machines
In the market for a second-hand phone? Check it’s still supported by the vendor – almost a third sold are not
Twitter says a “phone spear phishing” attack helped hackers – what’s that?
EU tries to get serious on cybercrime with first sanctions against Wannacry, NotPetya, CloudHopper crews
Fun fact: If you noticed a while ago Zoom’s web client going AWOL for a week, it’s because someone found a passcode-cracking hole
Twitter says spear-phishing attack hooked its staff and led to celebrity account hijack

Reading Time: ~ 3 min. To try to fight the isolation and uncertainty brought on by the COVID-19 outbreak, a few weeks ago we began what we’re referring to as “Office Hours” on the Webroot Community. It’s meant to be a forum where users can come together and pose their COVID/cybersecurity-related questions to some of […]

Reading Time: ~ 2 min. Garmin Hit with WastedLocker Ransomware Nearly a week after the company announced they had suffered a system outage, Garmin has finally admitted to falling victim to a ransomware attack, likely from the increasingly popular WastedLocker variant. As is the norm for WastedLocker, the attack was very specific in its targeting […]

Infosec bod: I’ve found zero-day flaws in Tor’s bridge relay defenses. Tor Project: Only the zero part is right
Zoom Flaw Could Have Allowed Hackers To Crack Meeting Passcodes

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Doki Backdoor Infiltrates Docker Servers in the Cloud
ESET Threat Report Q2 2020

A view of the Q2 2020 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts The post ESET Threat Report Q2 2020 appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Zoom bug meant attackers could brute force their way into password-protected meetings
Servers at risk from “BootHole” bug – what you need to know
Critical, High-Severity Cisco Flaws Fixed in Data Center Network Manager

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Smashing Security podcast #189: DNA cock-up, Garmin hack, and virtual kidnappings
Vermont Taxpayers Warned of Data Leak Over the Past Three Years

Tobias Stoeckmann found an integer overflow issue in JSON-C, a C library to manipulate JSON objects, when reading maliciously crafted large files. The issue could be exploited to cause denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

chromium-browser: Use after free in ANGLE (CVE-2020-6463) * chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in WebRTC (CVE-2020-6514) * Mozilla: Potential leak of redirect targets when loading scripts in a worker (CVE-2020-15652) * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 79 and Firefox ESR 68.11 (CVE-2020-15659) SL6 x86_64 firefox-68.11.0-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo [More…]

If you own one of these 45 Netgear devices, replace it: Gear maker won’t patch vulnerable gear despite live proof-of-concept code

The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: A stack-based buffer over-read in the PdfEncryptMD5Base::ComputeEncryptionKey() function in PdfEncrypt.cpp in PoDoFo 0.9.6-rc1 could be leveraged by remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted pdf file. (CVE-2018-12983)

An update is now available for Red Hat build of Quarkus. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each

It was discovered that there was an issue where kdepim-runtime would default to using unencrypted POP3 communication despite the UI indicating that encryption was in use.

DXC says ransomware attack disrupted customer operations at insurance services arm but barely left a scratch
Critical Magento Flaws Allow Code Execution
YOU… SHA-1 NOT PASS! Microsoft magics away demonic hash algorithm from Windows updates, apps
Billions of Devices Impacted by Secure Boot Bypass
Critical Bugs in Utilities VPNs Could Cause Physical Damage
FBI warns of disruptive DDoS amplification attacks

The Bureau expects cybercriminals to increasingly abuse new threat vectors for large-scale DDoS attacks The post FBI warns of disruptive DDoS amplification attacks appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

GRUB2, you’re getting too bug for your boots: Config file buffer overflow is a boon for malware seeking to drill deeper into a system
Critical Security Flaw in WordPress Plugin Allows RCE
US tax service says, “2FA is a must!”

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the GRUB2 bootloader. CVE-2020-10713

Chinese ambassador to UK threatens to withdraw Huawei, £3bn investment if comms giant banned from building 5G