German parents are being told to destroy smartwatches they have bought for their children after the country’s telecoms regulator put a blanket ban in place to prevent sale of the devices, amid growing privacy concerns. The post Kids’ smartwatches banned in Germany over spying concerns appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the United Kingdom has issued a stark reminder and straight-to-the-point warning for all employees who might be tempted to snoop on others’ personal data. The post UK’s ICO issues stark reminder of backlash for privacy invasion appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
LinuxSecurity.com: A security update for .NET Core on RHEL is now available. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
Unfortunately, as with every opportunity, there are people who want to benefit from your success without putting in the hard work. Cybercriminals will view the increase in traffic and spending as opportunities to make extra money. The post Is your business ready for the Holiday Season? appeared first on WeLiveSecurity
LinuxSecurity.com: A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in XML::LibXML, a Perl interface to the libxml2 library, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code by controlling the arguments to a replaceChild() call.
LinuxSecurity.com: Jakub Wilk reported a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in procmail’s formail utility when processing specially-crafted email headers. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause formail to crash, resulting in a denial of service or data loss.
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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.
Simple DoS attacks, which are a one-on-one affair, have been all but supplanted by DDoS attacks. The latter involve concerted campaigns from armies of devices conscripted into botnets which, as if lined up and marching in lockstep, aim to knock the unlucky target offline. The post One-third of internet pounded by DoS attacks appeared first […]
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LinuxSecurity.com: New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues.
LinuxSecurity.com: New libplist packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues.
LinuxSecurity.com: An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available. An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available. An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
LinuxSecurity.com: Rod Widdowson of Steading System Software LLP discovered a coding error in the OpenSAML library, causing the DynamicMetadataProvider class to fail configuring itself with the filters provided and omitting whatever checks they are intended to perform.
LinuxSecurity.com: Rod Widdowson of Steading System Software LLP discovered a coding error in the “Dynamic” metadata plugin of the Shibboleth Service Provider, causing the plugin to fail configuring itself with the filters provided and omitting whatever checks they are intended to perform.
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LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that jackson-databind, a Java library used to parse JSON and other data formats, improperly validated user input prior to deserializing: following DSA-4004-1 for CVE-2017-7525, an additional set of classes was identified as unsafe for deserialization.
LinuxSecurity.com: An update for openstack-aodh 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
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Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Office is prone to a cross-site request-forgery vulnerability; fixes are available.
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a local information-disclosure vulnerability; fixes are available.
Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Office is prone to a memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.
