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Mozilla security policy cracks down on creepy web trackers, holds supercookies over fire
Facebook to tie together WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger
Thieves’ names and descriptions made public on B&Q database
The race to lock down industrial control systems | Salted Hash Ep 44
Credential-stuffing attack prompts Dailymotion password reset
I helped catch Silk Road boss Ross Ulbricht: Undercover agent tells all
Did you know? Monday was Data Privacy Day. Now it’s Tuesday. Back to business as usual!
Q. What do you call an IT admin for 20-plus young children? A. A teacher
Apple races to fix FaceTime bug that lets you spy on someone *before* they pick up your call

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

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

PSA: Disable FaceTime. Miscreants can snoop on your iPhone, Mac mic before you pick up call

LinuxSecurity.com: Several issues in wireshark, a network traffic analyzer, have been found. Dissectors of – ISAKMP, a Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol

2019 and Beyond: The (Expanded) RSAC Advisory Board Weighs in on What’s Next

Reading Time: ~4 min. This is the first of a three-part report on the state of three malware categories: miners, ransomware and information stealers. In Webroot’s 2018 mid-term threat report, we outlined how cryptomining, and particularly cryptojacking, had become popular criminal tactics over the first six months of last year. This relatively novel method of cybercrime […]

Dailymotion Fights Ongoing Credential-Stuffing Attack

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Active Scans Target Vulnerable Cisco Routers for Remote Code-Execution
WordPress Users Urged to Delete Zero-Day-Ridden Plugin
Russia hit by new wave of ransomware spam

Among the increased number of malicious JavaScript email attachments observed in January 2019, ESET researchers have spotted a large wave of ransomware-spreading spam targeting Russian users The post Russia hit by new wave of ransomware spam appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

User of the world’s biggest DDoS-for-hire website? Police say they’re coming after you
How my Instagram account got hacked
How to protect yourself this Data Privacy Day
BGP secure routing experiment ends in online row
Twitter scammers jump in on real-time complaints to companies
Suspected GDPR violations prompt over 95,000 complaints

Eight months after the landmark rules came into effect, data released by the European Commission provides a glimpse into the law’s application The post Suspected GDPR violations prompt over 95,000 complaints appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Even Microsoft can’t escape ‘reply all’ email storms
YouTube subscribers getting spammed by celebrity imposters
Thousands of taxpayers tell HMRC to delete voiceprint data it stored without consent

LinuxSecurity.com: Several issues were discovered in qtbase-opensource-src, a cross-platform C++ application framework, which could lead to denial-of-service via application crash. Additionally, this update fixes a problem affecting vlc, where it would start without a GUI.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in coTURN, a TURN and STUN server for VoIP. CVE-2018-4056

Q. What connects the global financial crisis, Ursnif malware, and Coldplay’s Viva la Vida?

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LinuxSecurity.com: Tavis Ormandy discovered a vulnerability in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed Postscript file is processed (despite the -dSAFER sandbox being enabled).

LinuxSecurity.com: The package nasm before version 2.14.02-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package haproxy before version 1.9.0-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package apache before version 2.4.38-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including denial of service and insufficient validation.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package powerdns-recursor before version 4.1.9-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including insufficient validation and access restriction bypass.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package matrix-synapse before version 0.34.1.1-1 is vulnerable to private key recovery.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package go before version 2:1.11.5-1 is vulnerable to private key recovery.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package go before version 2:1.11.5-1 is vulnerable to private key recovery.

Miscreants sweep internet for unpatched Cisco kit, fears over bugged Chinese parts, Roger Stone nabbed…

LinuxSecurity.com: New version 2.6.6. Security fix for CVE-2019-5716, CVE-2019-5717, CVE-2019-5718, CVE-2019-5719

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LinuxSecurity.com: krb5, a MIT Kerberos implementation, had several flaws in LDAP DN checking, which could be used to circumvent a DN containership check by supplying special parameters to some calls.

LabKey Vulnerabilities Threaten Medical Research Data
Whats(goes)App must come down… World in shock as Zuck decides to intertwine Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp
Six Flags fingerprinted my son without consent, says mom. Y’know, this biometric case has teeth, say state supremes…
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Razy Malware Attacks Browser Extensions to Steal Cryptocurrency

Reading Time: ~2 min. Anatova Ransomware Reaches Global Market A new ransomware family, dubbed Anatova by researchers, has been infecting machines across the globe. During encryption, Anatova appears to focus on small files to speed up overall encryption times, but doesn’t append the encrypted files with a new extension. Unexpectedly, this variant demands DASH crypto […]

UK-EU infosec data sharing may not be KO’d by Brexit, reckons ENISA bod
Colorado police encrypt *all* their radio communications, frustrating journalists
Just keep slurping: HMRC adds two million taxpayers’ voices to biometric database
B&Q data leak exposes information on 70,000 thefts from its stores, including names of suspected offenders
Fighting Emotet: lessons from the front line
US gov issues emergency directive after wave of domain hijacking attacks
#DeleteFacebook? #DeleteTwitter? #FatLotOfGood that will do you
Cops catch $15m crypto-crook
Facebook debuts scam ads reporting tool

LinuxSecurity.com: The PostgreSQL project has release a new minor release of the 9.4 branch. For Debian 8 “Jessie”, this has been uploaded as version

Business payroll compromise – a new way for criminals to steal from your company
Data hackers are like toilet ninjas. This is not a clean crime, you know

LinuxSecurity.com: New Version

You’re an admin! You’re an admin! You’re all admins, thanks to this Microsoft Exchange zero-day and exploit
A picture tells a 1,000 words. Pixels pwn up to 5 million nerds: Crims use steganography to stash bad code in ads
Fighting Fire with Fire: API Automation Risks

LinuxSecurity.com: Ghostscript could be made to crash, access files, or run programs if it opened a specially crafted file.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in the HTML_QuickForm package has been found which potentially allows remote code execution. References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24185

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that libcaca incorrectly handled certain images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service (CVE-2018-20544). It was discovered that libcaca incorrectly handled certain images. An

LinuxSecurity.com: An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor where Lua hooks are not properly applied to queries received over TCP in some specific combination of settings, possibly bypassing security policies enforced using Lua (CVE-2019-3806).

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

ThreatList: Credential-Sniffing Phishing Attacks Erupted in 2018
Passwords at risk for users who fall for Eileen’s cousin’s voicemail
Colour us shocked: Google in €50m GDPR fine appeal bombshell
Bit-and-Piece DDoS Method Emerges to Torment ISPs
DarkHydrus Phishery tool spreading malware using Google Drive
Malicious apps deploy Anubis banking trojan using motion detection
World’s favourite open-source PDF interpreter needs patching (again)
Bomb threat spam may stem from GoDaddy DNS weakness
Can you spot the phish? Take Google’s test

Everybody loves quizzes. So why not take this one and hone your phish-spotting prowess? The post Can you spot the phish? Take Google’s test appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Supreme Court won’t consider case against defamatory reviews on Yelp
How to stop a hacker home invasion! [VIDEO]
Update now! Apple releases first 2019 iOS and macOS patches
“Proceed with caution”: Microsoft browser says Mail Online is untrustworthy
Nasty security bug found and fixed in Linux apt
New ransomware strain is locking up Bitcoin mining rigs in China
Sky Go app security failure exposes customers to snooping, data theft
Tech sector meekly waves arms in another bid to get Oz to amend its crypto-busting laws
Hadoop coop thrown for loop by malware snoop n’ scoop troop? Oh poop

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2018-20551, CVE-2018-20481, CVE-2018-20650 and CVE-2018-18897.

LinuxSecurity.com: – xattr: strip credentials from any URL that is stored (CVE-2018-20483)

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2019-5010 in Python. Anaconda is joined because an unrelated fix was done there that allowed to remove a workaround in Python.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

8-year-old ‘scared to death’ after hacked Nest security camera warns of missile attack
Smashing Security #112: Payroll scams, gold coin heists, web giants spanked