Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDos Boss Gets 3 Years

The ringleader of a gang of cyber hooligans that made bomb threats against hundreds of schools and launched distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against Web sites -- including KrebsOnSecurity on multiple occasions -- has been sentenced to three years in a U.K. prison, and faces the...

[ASA-201812-2] chromium: multiple issues

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201812-2 ========================================= Severity: Critical Date : 2018-12-08 CVE-ID : CVE-2018-17480 CVE-2018-17481 CVE-2018-18335 CVE-2018-18336 CVE-2018-18337 CVE-2018-18338 CVE-2018-18339 CVE-2018-18340 CVE-2018-18341 CVE-2018-18342 CVE-2018-18343...

Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Bill—Here's Everything You Need To Know

Australia's House of Representatives has finally passed the "Telecommunications Assistance and Access Bill 2018," also known as the Anti-Encryption Bill , on Thursday that would now allow law enforcement to force Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, Signal, and other tech giants to help them access...

Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Bill—Here's Everything You Need To Know

Australia's House of Representatives has finally passed the "Telecommunications Assistance and Access Bill 2018," also known as the Anti-Encryption Bill, on Thursday that would now allow law enforcement to force Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, Signal, and other tech giants to help them access encrypt...

Google Chrome URL Formatter Address Bar Forgery Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-01577)

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google, Inc. URL Formatter is one of the URL formatting components. A security vulnerability exists in URL Formatter in versions of Google Chrome prior to 71.0.3578.80, which stems from insufficient policy enforcement. The vulnerability can be exploited...

CVE-2018-18350

Incorrect handling of CSP enforcement during navigations in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 71.0.3578.80 allowed a remote attacker to bypass content security policy via a crafted HTML page...

Quora Gets Hacked – 100 Million Users Data Stolen

The World's most popular question-and-answer website Quora has suffered a massive data breach with unknown hackers gaining unauthorized access to potentially sensitive personal information of about 100 million of its users. Quora announced the incident late Monday after its team last Friday...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 43 security fixes in this release, including: High CVE-2018-17480: Out of bounds write in V8 High CVE-2018-17481: Use after free in PDFium High CVE-2018-18335: Heap buffer overflow in Skia High CVE-2018-18336: Use after free in PDFium High CVE-2018-18337: Use after...

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 71 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks. Chrome 71.0.3578.80 contains a number of fixes and improvements -- a list of changes is available in the log. Watch out for upcoming...

U.S. Military Members Catfished and Hooked for Thousands of Dollars

A sextortion ring that aimed “catfish” efforts at U.S. military service members has been uncovered. The scam bilked 442 service members from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps out of more than $560,000. An 11-month investigation, dubbed “Operation Surprise Party” and carried out by the...

500 Million Marriott Guest Records Stolen in Starwood Data Breach

The world's biggest hotel chain Marriott International today disclosed that unknown hackers compromised guest reservation database its subsidiary Starwood hotels and walked away with personal details of about 500 million guests. Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide was acquired by Marriott...

Dell Resets All Customers' Passwords After Potential Security Breach

Multinational computer technology company Dell disclosed Wednesday that its online electronics marketplace experienced a "cybersecurity incident" earlier this month when an unknown group of hackers infiltrated its internal network. On November 9, Dell detected and disrupted unauthorized activity ...

Dell Resets All Customers' Passwords After Potential Security Breach

Multinational computer technology company Dell disclosed Wednesday that its online electronics marketplace experienced a "cybersecurity incident" earlier this month when an unknown group of hackers infiltrated its internal network. On November 9, Dell detected and disrupted unauthorized activity ...

Gitlab -- Multiple vulnerabilities

Gitlab reports: View Names of Private Groups Persistent XSS in Environments SSRF in Prometheus integration Unauthorized Promotion of Milestones Exposure of Confidential Issue Title Persisent XSS in Markdown Fields via Mermaid Script Persistent XSS in Markdown Fields via Unrecognized HTML Tags...

RHEL 7 : java-1.7.1-ibm (RHSA-2018:3672)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3672 advisory. IBM Java SE version 7 Release 1 includes the IBM Java Runtime Environment and the IBM Java Software Development Kit. This update upgrades IB...

Scientific Linux Security Update : java-11-openjdk on SL7.x x86_64 (20181107)

Security Fixes : - OpenJDK: Improper field access checks Hotspot, 8199226 CVE-2018-3169 - OpenJDK: Unrestricted access to scripting engine Scripting, 8202936 CVE-2018-3183 - OpenJDK: Incomplete enforcement of the trustURLCodebase restriction JNDI, 8199177 CVE-2018-3149 - OpenJDK: Incorrect handli...

What DNA testing kit companies are really doing with your data

Sarah hovered over the mailbox, envelope in hand. She knew as soon as she mailed off her DNA sample, there’d be no turning back. She ran through the information she looked up on 23andMe’s website one more time: the privacy policy, the research parameters, the option to learn about potential healt...

CVE-2018-6070

Lack of CSP enforcement on WebUI pages in Bink in Google Chrome prior to 65.0.3325.146 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass content security policy via a crafted Chrome Extension...

Design/Logic Flaw

Lack of CSP enforcement on WebUI pages in Bink in Google Chrome prior to 65.0.3325.146 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass content security policy via a crafted Chrome Extension...

CVE-2018-6070

Lack of CSP enforcement on WebUI pages in Bink in Google Chrome prior to 65.0.3325.146 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass content security policy via a crafted Chrome Extension...