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Experts Call Facebook’s Latest Controversy a Social Media ‘Breach Of Trust’
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Hackers steal banking & personal data of 800,000 Orbitz customers

In light of the publicity, panic, and lingering despair around Spectre and Meltdown, I thought this might be a good time to clear up the differences between vulnerabilities, exploits, and malware. Neither Spectre nor Meltdown are exploits or malware. They are vulnerabilities. Vulnerabilities don’t hurt people, exploits and malware do. To understand this distinction, witness […]

LinuxSecurity.com: Paramiko could be made to run programs if it received speciallycrafted network traffic.

LinuxSecurity.com: Paramiko could be made to run programs if it received speciallycrafted network traffic.

Telegram Ordered to Hand Over Encryption Keys to Russian Authorities

LinuxSecurity.com: This update upgrades Firefox to version 52.7.2 ESR. * Mozilla: Vorbis audio processing out of bounds write (MFSA 2018-08) (CVE-2018-5146) SL6 x86_64 firefox-52.7.2-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.7.2-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm firefox-52.7.2-1.el6_9.i686.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.7.2-1.el6_9.i686.rpm i386 firefox-52.7.2-1.el6_9.i686.rpm firefox-debuginfo-52.7.2-1.el6 [More…]

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UK’s National Lottery urges millions of players to change their passwords

The lottery’s operator has found that attackers probably used an automated method known as ‘credential stuffing’ to access up to 150 customer accounts. The post UK’s National Lottery urges millions of players to change their passwords appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

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LinuxSecurity.com: The package lib32-libcurl-gnutls before version 7.59.0-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including denial of service and information disclosure.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package libcurl-gnutls before version 7.59.0-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including denial of service and information disclosure.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package lib32-libcurl-compat before version 7.59.0-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including denial of service and information disclosure.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package libcurl-compat before version 7.59.0-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including denial of service and information disclosure.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package lib32-curl before version 7.59.0-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including denial of service and information disclosure.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package curl before version 7.59.0-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including denial of service and information disclosure.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package clamav before version 0.99.4-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary code execution and denial of service.

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

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

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 7 vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

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LinuxSecurity.com: The package firefox before version 59.0.1-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution.

Modified BlackBerrys sold to drug dealers, five indicted

LinuxSecurity.com: The package libvorbis before version 1.3.6-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary code execution and denial of service.

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update for firefox 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 of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in KDE Plasma Workspaces, the worst of which allows local attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Adobe Flash Player, the worst of which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Gentoo’s JabberD 2.x ebuild, the worst of which allows local attackers to escalate privileges. [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Oracle’s JDK and JRE software suites, the worst of which may allow execution of arbitrary code. [More…]

Cambridge Analytica’s grab of 50 million Facebook users’ data

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities were found in cURL, an URL transfer library: CVE-2018-1000120

LinuxSecurity.com: The package ntp before version 4.2.8.p11-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including arbitrary code execution, content spoofing and denial of service.

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LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 6 vulnerabilities is now available.

Facebook confirms Cambridge Analytica stole its data; it’s a plot claims former director

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LinuxSecurity.com: Richard Zhu and Huzaifa Sidhpurwala discovered that an out-of-bounds memory write when playing Vorbis media files could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

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

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

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

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Hacker Adrian Lamo who tipped off FBI about Chelsea Manning dies at 37

LinuxSecurity.com: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala discovered that an out-of-bounds memory write in the codebook parsing code of the Libtremor multimedia library could result in the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed Vorbis file is opened.

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New Microsoft Bug Bounty Program Looks To Squash The Next Spectre, Meltdown

LinuxSecurity.com: Richard Zhu discovered that an out-of-bounds memory write in the codeboook parsing code of the Libvorbis multimedia library could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

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Poisoned BitTorrent client kickstarted malware outbreak that tried to infect 400,000 PCs
The Chrome extension that knows its you by the way you type

LinuxSecurity.com: Some vulnerabilities have been found in ClamAV, an open source antivirus engine:

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes 27 vulnerabilities is now available.

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Tricks that cybercriminals use to hide in your phone

Malware in the official Google store never stops appearing. For cybercriminals, sneaking their malicious applications into the marketplace of genuine apps is a huge victory. The post Tricks that cybercriminals use to hide in your phone appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

The Cyber News Rundown brings you the latest happenings in cybersecurity news weekly. Who am I? I’m Connor Madsen, a Webroot Threat Research Analyst and a guy with a passion for all things security. Any questions? Just ask. Global Gas Station Software Found Unsecured Researchers have recently discovered a vulnerability that would allow anyone to […]