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NSS Labs fires off anti-malware-testing lawsuit at infosec toolmakers
Cisco Issues New Warning for 6-Month-Old Critical Bug in IOS XE
No, Sunspot Solar Observatory didn’t see aliens
Hackers behind Mirai botnet to avoid jail for working with the FBI
Securing industrial IoT passwords: For Pete’s sake, engineers, don’t all jump in at once
Magecart Strikes Again, Siphoning Payment Info from Newegg
Mirai’s architects avoid prison thanks to work for FBI

Instead, the three men will cooperate with law enforcement and the broader research community – an area in which, it turns out, they already have quite some experience The post Mirai’s architects avoid prison thanks to work for FBI appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Sealed with an XSS: Lloyds Group should avoid cross talk, say IT pros
Man who shared Deadpool movie on Facebook faces 6 months in jail
Thousands of Breached Websites Turn Up On MagBo Black Market

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in Little CMS.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in GlusterFS, a clustered file system. Buffer overflows and path traversal issues may lead to information disclosure, denial-of-service or the execution of arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

US military given the power to hack back/defend forward

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 (Pike). Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

LinuxSecurity.com: Bind could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in Little CMS.

FBI wants to keep “helpful” Mirai botnet authors around
Western Digital goes quiet on unpatched MyCloud flaw
Congrats on keeping out the hackers. Now, you’ve taken care of rogue insiders, right? Hello?
No, the Mirai botnet masters aren’t going to jail. Why? ‘Cos they help Feds nab cyber-crims
What’s that smell? Oh, it’s Newegg cracked open by card slurpers

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability has been discovered in php5, a server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language. The Apache2 component allows XSS via the body of a “Transfer-Encoding: chunked” request because of a defect

Oi, you. Equifax. Cough up half a million quid for fumbling 15 million Brits’ personal info to hackers

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

Smashing Security #096: Bribing Amazon staff, and blinking deepfakes

LinuxSecurity.com: CVE-2016-10728 If an ICMPv4 error packet is received as the first packet on a flow in the to_client direction, it can lead to missed TCP/UDP detection

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability; fixes are available.

Patch for EE’s 4G Wi-Fi mini modem nails local privilege escalation flaw
Mirai Masterminds Helping FBI Snuff Out Cybercrime
Heads up: Get ready to tune in live and watch us probe insider threats menacing today’s IT
Critical Out-of-Band Patch Issued for Adobe Acrobat Reader
Security Embargos at Red Hat
National Museum of Computing to hold live Enigma code-breaking demo with a Bombe
URL spoofing – what it is and what to do about it [VIDEO]
Hackers disrupt UK’s Bristol Airport flight info screens after ransomware attack
A Hybrid Solution to Taming SOC Alert Overload
XBash Malware Packs Double Punch: Destroys Data and Mines for Crypto Coins
Fake finance apps on Google Play target users from around the world

Cybercrooks use bogus apps to phish six online banks and cryptocurrency exchange The post Fake finance apps on Google Play target users from around the world appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Why waste away in a cubicle when you could be a goddamn infosec neuromancer on £50k*?
‘Peekaboo’ zero-day lets hackers view and alter surveillance camera footage
The makers of the Mirai IoT-hijacking botnet are sentenced
iOS 12 is here: these are the security features you need to know about
Here we Mongo again! Millions of records exposed by insecure database
Years on, third party apps still exposing Grindr users’ locations
Employee Personal Info Exposed in State Department Hack
FBI Warns Parents of Edtech Security Risk
How Facebook wants to protect political campaigners from hacking

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

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

How to secure your PostgreSQL database
Who ate all the PII? Not the blockchain, thankfully

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

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

Your business should be more afraid of phishing than malware

LinuxSecurity.com: Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. Kevin Cheung discovered an error in the WebAssembly implementation and evil1m0 discovered a URL spoofing issue.

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US Dept of State says attack on email system exposed employees’ personal data
Judge: Georgia’s e-vote machines are awful – but go ahead and use them
US State Department confirms: Unclassified staff email boxes hacked
‘I am admin’ bug turns WD’s My Cloud boxes into Everyone’s Cloud
ThreatList: Malware Samples Targeting IoT More Than Double in 2018
Dark Web: US court seizes assets and properties of deceased AlphaBay operator
Intel releases firmware update for ME flaw

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for openstack-neutron is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton). Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

Risk Level: Very Low.

State Government Online Payment Service Exposes 14M Customers
Linux & Windows hit with disk wiper, ransomware & cryptomining Xbash malware
Biz! Formerly! Known! As! Yahoo! Settles! Data! Breach! Cases! To! The! Tune! Of! $47m!
Dangerous Pegasus Spyware Has Spread to 45 Countries
Medical records & patient-doctor recordings of thousands of people exposed
Apache Struts & SonicWall’s GMS exploits key targets of Mirai & Gafgyt IoT malware
Hackers selling research phished from universities on WhatsApp
Insiders Continue to be Data Theft’s Best Friend
91 “child friendly” Android apps accused of exploitation
Linus Torvalds takes a break from Linux
Oh Smeg! Hacked white goods maker resurfaces after system shutdown

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens). Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

The Occasional Orator Part 1

Speaking at conferences can be daunting for presenters but often it is about striking the right balance between content and delivery The post The Occasional Orator Part 1 appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

This new phishing attack uses an old trick to steal passwords and credit card details
Bristol Airport Hit by Ransomware Blackout
C’mon, biz: Give white hats a chance to tell you how screwed you are

LinuxSecurity.com: USN-3722-1 introduced a regression in ClamAV.

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

LinuxSecurity.com: USN-3722-1 introduced a regression in ClamAV.

State Department scores an F on 2FA security
TV Licensing admits: We directed 25,000 people to send their bank details in the clear

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for CVE-2018-1000801

LinuxSecurity.com: Updates the nss family of packages to upstream NSPR 4.20 and NSS 3.39. For details about new functionality and a list of bugs fixed in this release please see the upstream release notes https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.39_release_notes

LinuxSecurity.com: Updates the nss family of packages to upstream NSPR 4.20 and NSS 3.39. For details about new functionality and a list of bugs fixed in this release please see the upstream release notes https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.39_release_notes

LinuxSecurity.com: Updates the nss family of packages to upstream NSPR 4.20 and NSS 3.39. For details about new functionality and a list of bugs fixed in this release please see the upstream release notes https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.39_release_notes

LinuxSecurity.com: Updates the nss family of packages to upstream NSPR 4.20 and NSS 3.39. For details about new functionality and a list of bugs fixed in this release please see the upstream release notes https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.39_release_notes

Just 13 – no, er, make that 3,200 punters hit in Oz’s Perth Mint hack

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.

Zero-Day Bug Allows Hackers to Access CCTV Surveillance Cameras