Debian DSA-3934-1 : git - security update

Joern Schneeweisz discovered that git, a distributed revision control system, did not correctly handle maliciously constructed ssh:// URLs. This allowed an attacker to run an arbitrary shell command, for instance via git submodules. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3929-1] libsoup2.4 security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3929-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso August 10, 2017 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Ukrainian Man Arrested For Distributing NotPetya Ransomware And Helping Tax Evaders

Ukrainian authorities have arrested a 51-year-old man accused of distributing the infamous Petya ransomware Petya.A, also known as NotPetya — the same computer virus that massively hit numerous businesses, organisations and banks in Ukraine as well as different parts of Europe around 45 days ago...

Chinese Quantum Satellite Sends First ‘Unhackable’ Data to Earth

In what appears to be the world's first quantum satellite transmission, China has successfully sent an "unbreakable" code over a long distance from an orbiting satellite to the Earth, achieving a milestone in the next generation encryption based on "quantum cryptography." In August last year, Chi...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3928-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID30127: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on August 8, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54780 First Published: 2017 August 8 13:40 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID30127 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Flash Player Marches Toward End, Patches Two Code Execution Bugs in Latest Update

Adobe today pushed out its first Flash Player update since announcing two weeks ago that it would stop distributing and updating the software in 2020. Flash has been at the center of many targeted attacks and exploit kit activity, and despite numerous improvements to the product including...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID29930: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on August 7, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54752 First Published: 2017 August 7 20:36 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID29930 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID30113: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on August 7, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54771 First Published: 2017 August 7 20:36 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID30113 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID30112: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on August 7, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54776 First Published: 2017 August 7 19:28 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID30112 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID30088: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on August 7, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54763 First Published: 2017 August 7 17:17 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID30088 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

CVE-2017-6745

A vulnerability in the cache server within Cisco Videoscape Distribution Suite VDS for Television 3.25ES1 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition on a targeted appliance. The vulnerability is due to excessive mapped connections exhausting the...

CVE-2017-6745

A vulnerability in the cache server within Cisco Videoscape Distribution Suite VDS for Television 3.25ES1 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition on a targeted appliance. The vulnerability is due to excessive mapped connections exhausting the...

CVE-2017-6745: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

A vulnerability in the cache server within Cisco Videoscape Distribution Suite VDS for Television 3.25ES1 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition on a targeted appliance. The vulnerability is due to excessive mapped connections exhausting the...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID30102: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on August 4, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54741 First Published: 2017 August 5 01:32 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID30102 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID29926: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on August 2, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54724 First Published: 2017 August 3 19:40 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID29926 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

WannaCry Hero Arrested, One of Two Charged with Distribution of Kronos Malware

Marcus Hutchins, the researcher hailed for his work in blunting the WannaCry ransomware outbreak in May, was arrested Wednesday in Las Vegas and charged with creating and distributing the Kronos banking malware. Hutchins, known online as Malwaretech, is a U.K. citizen and arrived in Las Vegas las...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID30085: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on August 2, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54736 First Published: 2017 August 3 14:39 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID30085 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Cisco Videoscape Distribution Suite for Television Denial of Service Vulnerability

Cisco Videoscape Distribution Suite for Television is a television content distribution system. A denial of service vulnerability exists in Cisco Videoscape Distribution Suite for Television, which allows remote attackers to conduct denial of service attacks by submitting a large number of mapped...

CVE-2017-11356

The application distribution export functionality in PEGA Platform 7.2 ML0 and earlier allows remote authenticated users with certain privileges to obtain sensitive configuration information by leveraging a missing access control...