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That Hearbleed problem may be more pervasive than you think
Securing MySQL DBMS
Breach Notification Website LeakedSource Allegedly Raided, Shut Down
Smashing Security podcast #005: ‘Upskirt insecurity’
218,000 private unencrypted AlphaBay dark web messages exposed
Celebgate hacker who stole nude photos gets nine months in jail
An introduction to private browsing

Privacy and security fears are driving many people to look into the possibilities of private browsing. We investigate what it is and how you stay anonymous online The post An introduction to private browsing appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Sednit: How this notorious cyberespionage group operates

Take a closer look at the cyberespionage group Sednit, which has targeted over 1000 high-profile individuals and organizations with phishing attacks and zero-day exploits. The post Sednit: How this notorious cyberespionage group operates appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

No, disabling your anti-virus software does not make security sense
Trump administration is giving us a good lesson on Twitter security
Data Privacy Day: know the risks of Amazon Alexa and Google Home
Facebook taps FIDO U2F for stronger login security
Worrying about data privacy isn’t enough: Here’s how to own your online presence

ESET’s Ondrej Kubovič: “Worrying about privacy isn’t enough” – here’s how to control your data privacy and online presence. The post Worrying about data privacy isn’t enough: Here’s how to own your online presence appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

PayPal users targeted in sophisticated new phishing campaign

Recent phishing scams targeted both Gmail and Yahoo, and now attackers have their sights set on PayPal with some very convincing bait. The post PayPal users targeted in sophisticated new phishing campaign appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

LeakedSource website goes dark amid claims of police raid
Bookish hacker finds holes in Amazon, Apple, Google epub services
Uber pays hacker US$9,000 for partner firm’s bug
Former Mozilla dev joins chorus roasting antivirus, says ‘It’s poison!’
Americans fear their data isn’t safe, yet do little to defend it
The security of President Trump’s Android smartphone
Malicious “Charger Ransomware” App Discovered on Google Play Store
Trump signs ‘no privacy for non-Americans’ order – what does that mean for rest of us?

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More mobe malware creeps into Google Play – this time, ransomware
Your Facebook account is now more secure than your bank’s (probably)
Facebook Touts ‘Safer’ Security Key Login
Machine behaviors that threaten enterprise security
Bill Calls for Study of Cybersecurity Standards for Cars

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for ansible is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton). Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: Security Report Summary

LinuxSecurity.com: – new upstream (51.0)

LinuxSecurity.com: * CVE-2016-6836: vmxnet: Information leakage in vmxnet3_complete_packet (bz#1366370) * CVE-2016-7909: pcnet: Infinite loop in pcnet_rdra_addr (bz #1381196)* CVE-2016-7994: virtio-gpu: memory leak in resource_create_2d (bz #1382667) *CVE-2016-8577: 9pfs: host memory leakage in v9fs_read (bz #1383286) *CVE-2016-8578: 9pfs: potential NULL dereferencein 9pfs routines (bz #1383292) *CVE-2016-8668: OOB buffer access in rocker switch emulation (bz #1384898) *CVE-2016-8669: […]

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to ansible 2.2.1. Fixes several CVEs as well as a number of otherbugfixes. See: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.2/CHANGELOG.mdfor full changes.

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to ansible 2.2.1. Fixes several CVEs as well as a number of otherbugfixes. See: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.2/CHANGELOG.mdfor full changes.

Clock’s ticking for MD5-signed JAR files, says Oracle
Firefox flags Web of Trust add-on as suspicious, blocks by default
News in brief: real Q is a woman; Trump ‘still using Android phone’; Apple to join AI group
Voyeur adult website hacked; 180k members data leaked
Uber.com Backup Bug Nets Researcher $9K
How one man could have deleted any public Facebook video
Raspberry Pi to get a boost in brain power thanks to Google’s AI tools
Google to Block .js Attachments in Gmail
President Trump tweets from insecure Android, security boffins roll eyes
High-Severity Chrome Vulnerabilities Earn Researcher $32K in Rewards
Dark Web’ Largest Trading Platform AlphaBay Hacked; 200k Messages Leaked
Desperately seeking cybersecurity skills

Cybercrime is victimizing US companies and consumers, but a gap in cybersecurity skills presents a problem for the federal government. ESET’s Stephen Cobb investigates. The post Desperately seeking cybersecurity skills appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

In a bad mood? You might not be allowed to log on
10 questions to ask IDaaS vendors before you buy
In real life, Q is a woman! Head of MI6 calls for more female techies at SIS
Half of Ransomware Victims Pay Criminals’ Demands to Recover Data
Google pressure on devs to fix security issues bears fruit
Firefox 51 delivers a mix of security, performance and reliability tweaks, implements FLAC audio sup
Self-protection is key to Linux kernel security

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Advanced Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…]

Disk-nuking malware takes out Saudi Arabian gear. Yeah, wipe that smirk off your face, Iran
‘Celebgate’ nudes thief gets just nine months of porridge
Get 72% off NordVPN Virtual Private Network Service For a Limited Time – Deal Alert
Cisco WebEx code execution hole – what you need to know
HummingWhale Malware infected Android Apps Downloaded Millions of Times
Trump lieutenants ‘use private email’ for govt work… but who’d make a big deal out of that?
Hacker Selling 126 Million Cell Phone Details of “U.S. Cellular” Customers
Shamoon malware revisiting Saudi Arabia; cyberinfrastructure on high alert
Default Credentials Found in Schneider Electric Wonderware Historian
Firefox 51 Begins Warning Users of Insecure HTTP Connections
Linux nasty kicks weak, hacked gadgets when they’re already down
News in brief: 1984 tops bestseller charts; Alexa pleases Trekkies; HP extends battery recall
Penguins force-fed root: Cruel security flaw found in systemd v228
Kaspersky cybercrime investigator cuffed in Russian treason probe

To address the need for application security in the digital transformation era, F5 is releasing a new host of products and services. “The digital transformation has really changed security as a whole,” says Preston Hogue, Director of Security Marketing and Competitive Intelligence. What he means is that everything—EVERYTHING—is moving to the cloud. Think about the […]

Court rejects US government appeal in case of Microsoft overseas email
Lloyds Banking Group hit with distributed denial of service attack

Lloyds Banking Group fell victim to an attempted cyberattack earlier this month, which saw cybercriminals attempt to crash the online banking service over a two day period. The post Lloyds Banking Group hit with distributed denial of service attack appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Verizon’s $4.8bn acquisition of Yahoo put on hold after breach revelations
China clamps down tighter on web use with new VPN ban
41% off Netgear Arlo Security System Wireless HD Camera, Indoor/Outdoor, Night Vision – Deal Alert
It’s that time of the year again: Texas school district blabs staff tax documents to phishers
Corporations at risk of malware attack via Cisco’s WebEx Chrome extension
Cisco scrambling to fix a remote code execution problem in WebEx
RoT: Ransomware of Things

Could the Internet of Things spark the Ransomware of Things? ESET’s Stephen Cobb examines how ransomware and jackware are evolving. The post RoT: Ransomware of Things appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Twitter’s Phantom Menace: a Star Wars botnet
Charger Mobile Ransomware Removed from Google Play
Charger Android ransomware spread via the official Google Play app store
Yahoo faces SEC probe into its two record-breaking data breaches

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into whether Yahoo could have been quicker to tell investors about two record-breaking data breaches. The post Yahoo faces SEC probe into its two record-breaking data breaches appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Looking for love? Don’t get caught out by the growing number of scammers
This new ransomware ‘bluff’ trick is costing victims big, even though their files are never really i
Technology of the Year 2017: The best hardware, software, and cloud services
Identify and escape: A two-part ransomware plan
InfoWorld’s 2017 Technology of the Year Award winners
Boffins break Samsung Galaxies with one SMS carrying WAP crap

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

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in X.Org X Server, the worst of which may allow authenticated attackers to read from or send information to arbitrary X11 clients.

Firefox bares teeth, attacks sites that collect personal data
Western Digital fixes remote execution bug in My Cloud Mirror
Human bot hybrid finds LinkedIn email, phone number-filching holes
Graham Cluley nominated for most entertaining security blog. Please vote!
Trump’s FBI boss, Attorney General picks reckon your encryption’s getting backdoored
Internet gang claims it caused Lloyds Bank outage via a DDoS attack
Hacker Selling 1 Billion user accounts stolen from Chinese Internet Giants
US govt can’t stop Microsoft taking its Irish email seizure fight to the Supreme Court
SpyNote RAT Now Disguised As Netflix App

LinuxSecurity.com: Security fix for console video game music emu vulnerability in the fullyoptional audacious-plugins-exotic subpackage: CVE-2016-9957, CVE-2016-9958,CVE-2016-9959, CVE-2016-9960, CVE-2016-9961