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Bayrob: Romanian auction fraud suspects extradited to the US
Vera for Microsoft protects Office 365 files everywhere
Netgear releases firmware updates for vulnerable routers
Tordow 2.0 Android banking trojan gains root access, mimics ransomware
LinkedIn training arm Lynda.com suffers data breach
FYI! – Your! hacked! Yahoo! account! is! worth! $0.0003!

LinuxSecurity.com: Security Report Summary

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LinuxSecurity.com: – update to the new upstream version (50.1.0) – fixed X Window crashes(mozbz#1271100)

LinuxSecurity.com: ARM guests may induce host asynchronous abort [XSA-201, CVE-2016-9815,CVE-2016-9816, CVE-2016-9817, CVE-2016-9818] (#1399747) qemu: Divide by zerovulnerability in cirrus_do_copy (#1399055) [CVE-2016-9921, CVE-2016-9922] Qemu:9pfs: memory leakage via proxy/handle callbacks (#1402278) qemu ioport arrayoverflow [XSA-199, CVE-2016-9637]

New Tech Lets You Use Smartphone, Tablet without Draining their Battery
SQL Injection Attack is Tied to Election Commission Breach
LinkedIn’s training arm resets 55,000 members’ passwords

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PCILeech Allows Hacking of Apple Mac Encryption Passcode in Seconds
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The Coolest Hacks Of 2016
‘I told him to cut it out’ – Obama is convinced Putin’s hackers swung the election for Trump

  Who remembers the Atari 2600? Yeah, I don’t either. Just kidding. Maybe. It’s hard to think about the words tech and toys together before the 1990s. However, they were a thing. Kids of the late 70s reveled in the Atari 2600. It became a staple of pop culture—defining a generation of gaming young enthusiasts. […]

Cybersecurity skills gap: it’s big and it’s bad for security

The cybersecurity skills gap is a big problem for organizations struggling to protect rapidly expanding systems from a growing range of threats. We look at how big and what to do about it. The post Cybersecurity skills gap: it’s big and it’s bad for security appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Houston, we have a problem: ‘App dev stole our radio station’
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Tordow Banking Trojan – A Grave Threat for Android Users

  Credit card fraud and email scams aren’t the only thing you have to worry about this holiday season. Criminals in the UK are stepping up their game by using radio frequencies to steal cars. Ransomware Uses Credit Card Emails with Infected Attachments A new ransomware variant of Cerber is using fake credit card reports […]

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LinuxSecurity.com: Security Report Summary

German infosec agency urges security review after Yahoo! flensing
Ransomware scum face unified white hat army
Macbook seized or stolen? But you’ve set a FileVault password, right? Ha, it’s useless

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The Mirai botnet: what it is, what it has done, and how to find out if you’re part of it

LinuxSecurity.com: – update to the new upstream version (50.1.0) – fixed X Window crashes(mozbz#1271100)

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to Chromium 55. Security fix for CVE-2016-5199, CVE-2016-5200,CVE-2016-5201, CVE-2016-5202, CVE-2016-9651, CVE-2016-5208, CVE-2016-5207,CVE-2016-5206, CVE-2016-5205, CVE-2016-5204, CVE-2016-5209, CVE-2016-5203,CVE-2016-5210, CVE-2016-5212, CVE-2016-5211, CVE-2016-5213, CVE-2016-5214,CVE-2016-5216, CVE-2016-5215, CVE-2016-5217, CVE-2016-5218, CVE-2016-5219,CVE-2016-5221, CVE-2016-5220, CVE-2016-5222, CVE-2016-9650, CVE-2016-5223,CVE-2016-5226, CVE-2016-5225, CVE-2016-5224, CVE-2016-9652

LinuxSecurity.com: * Security fix for CVE-2016-9888

LinuxSecurity.com: vmncdec: Sanity-check width/height before using it —- Remove insecure nsfplugin (#1395126)

LinuxSecurity.com: Disable insecure FLX plugin (rhbz#1397441)

Dear hackers, Ubuntu’s app crash reporter will happily execute your evil code on a victim’s box
ThePirateBay and Four Other Websites to be Blocked in Australia

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10 Ways to Protect Your WordPress Site You Didn’t Know About

LinuxSecurity.com: – update to the new upstream version (50.1.0) – fixed X Window crashes(mozbz#1271100)

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to Chromium 55. Security fix for CVE-2016-5199, CVE-2016-5200,CVE-2016-5201, CVE-2016-5202, CVE-2016-9651, CVE-2016-5208, CVE-2016-5207,CVE-2016-5206, CVE-2016-5205, CVE-2016-5204, CVE-2016-5209, CVE-2016-5203,CVE-2016-5210, CVE-2016-5212, CVE-2016-5211, CVE-2016-5213, CVE-2016-5214,CVE-2016-5216, CVE-2016-5215, CVE-2016-5217, CVE-2016-5218, CVE-2016-5219,CVE-2016-5221, CVE-2016-5220, CVE-2016-5222, CVE-2016-9650, CVE-2016-5223,CVE-2016-5226, CVE-2016-5225, CVE-2016-5224, CVE-2016-9652

DNSChanger Exploit Kit Hijacks Routers, Not Browsers
Microsoft, Google to Block Flash by Default in Edge, Chrome

LinuxSecurity.com: This updates includes a rebase from tomcat 8.0.38 up to 8.0.39 which resolvesmultiple CVEs: * #1397493 – CVE-2016-6816 CVE-2016-6817 CVE-2016-8735 tomcat:various flaws

LinuxSecurity.com: Apport could be made to run programs as your login if it opened aspecially crafted file.

LinuxSecurity.com: This updates includes a rebase from tomcat 8.0.38 up to 8.0.39 which resolvesmultiple CVEs: * #1397493 – CVE-2016-6816 CVE-2016-6817 CVE-2016-8735 tomcat:various flaws

LinuxSecurity.com: Security Report Summary

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for flash-plugin is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. [More Info…]

LinuxSecurity.com: Update LXC to the latest stable version. See[here](https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/news/) for the list of changes.

LinuxSecurity.com: **Version 1.2.3** – Searching in both contacts and groups when LDAP addressbookwith group_filters option is used – Fix vulnerability in handling of mail()’s5th argument – Fix To: header encoding in mail sent with mail() method (#5475) -Fix flickering of header topline in min-mode (#5426) – Fix bug where folderslist would scroll to top when […]

LinuxSecurity.com: Update LXC to the latest stable version. See[here](https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/news/) for the list of changes.

Yahoo breach: I’ve closed my account because it used MD5 to hash my password
Yahoo breach: your questions answered in our Facebook Live video
This Malware converts your Computer into a Cryptocurrency Miner

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

IDG Contributor Network: Holiday shopping season and fraud: Not one without the other
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Bug Hunters Prefer Communication Over Compensation
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Alleged upskirter ordered to hand over iPhone passcode by court
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Regulators crack down on Skype and WhatsApp over privacy
StormCloud 2017 – See me speaking in London, January 2017
Yahoo breach: here’s what you need to do
ESET Trends for 2017: Holding security ransom

ESET’s Trends for 2017: Security Held Ransom report includes a review of the most important events of last year and outlines trends in cybercriminal activity and cyberthreats for 2017. The post ESET Trends for 2017: Holding security ransom appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Yahoo breach means hackers had three years to abuse user accounts