NSO Group President Defends Controversial Tactics

In a rare public appearance by Shiri Dolev, the president of the secretive NSO Group Technologies, the company leader vented over what she called “false myths” about the firm. Dolev also took indirect aim at secure messaging platforms, offered by the likes of Facebook, explaining surveillance...

systemd: systemd-resolved allows unprivileged users to configure DNS

An improper authorization flaw was discovered in systemd-resolved in the way it configures the exposed DBus interface org.freedesktop.resolve1. An unprivileged local attacker could call all DBus methods, even when marked as privileged operations. An attacker could abuse this flaw by changing the...

Bumble: Reflected XSS

The researcher has found an XSS when sending messages through our service...

Threat Source newsletter (Nov. 7, 2019)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. The only news we’re going to cover this week is the biggest news we’ve had in a while. Tuesday, we announced that Cisco Incident Respons...

Why Many People Got Mysterious Valentine’s Day Texts Today

The issue was reportedly caused by a maintenance update made to “messaging platforms of multiple carriers in the US."...

WhatsApp's Case Against NSO Group Hinges on a Tricky Legal Argument

The Facebook-owned messaging company is taking on a notorious malware vendor in what could be an uphill battle...

Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile to replace SMS with RCS Messaging in 2020

Mobile carriers in the United States will finally offer a universal cross-carrier communication standard for the next-generation RCS messaging service that is meant to replace SMS and has the potential to change the way consumers interact with brands for years to come. All major United States...

Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile to replace SMS with RCS Messaging in 2020

Mobile carriers in the United States will finally offer a universal cross-carrier communication standard for the next-generation RCS messaging service that is meant to replace SMS and has the potential to change the way consumers interact with brands for years to come. All major United States...

CVE-2019-9699

Symantec Messaging Gateway prior to 10.7.0, may be susceptible to an information disclosure issue, which is a type of vulnerability that could potentially allow unauthorized access to data...

CVE-2019-9699

Symantec Messaging Gateway prior to 10.7.0, may be susceptible to an information disclosure issue, which is a type of vulnerability that could potentially allow unauthorized access to data...

Information disclosure

Symantec Messaging Gateway prior to 10.7.0, may be susceptible to an information disclosure issue, which is a type of vulnerability that could potentially allow unauthorized access to data...

CVE-2019-9699

CVE-2019-9699 affects Symantec Messaging Gateway (SMG) 10.x prior to 10.7.0. The issue is an information-disclosure vulnerability that could allow unauthorized data access. Remediation is to upgrade to SMG version 10.7.0 (per vendor advisories). Several connected sources confirm the affected prod...

CVE-2019-9699

Symantec Messaging Gateway prior to 10.7.0, may be susceptible to an information disclosure issue, which is a type of vulnerability that could potentially allow unauthorized access to data...

Chrome for Android Enables Site Isolation Security Feature for All Sites with Login

After enabling 'Site Isolation' security feature in Chrome for desktops last year, Google has now finally introduced 'the extra line of defence' for Android smartphone users surfing the Internet over the Chrome web browser. In brief, Site Isolation is a security feature that adds an additional...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat A-MQ Broker 7.5 release and security update

Red Hat A-MQ Broker 7.5 is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fr...

IBM MQ AMQP Listeners Session Fixation Vulnerability

IBM MQ IBM WebSphere MQ is a messaging middleware product from IBM. The product is mainly for the service-oriented architecture SOA to provide a reliable and proven messaging backbone. AMQP Listeners is one of the AMQP Advanced Message Queuing Protocol listener plug-in. A session fixation...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: mosquitto-1.6.7-1.fc29

Mosquitto is an open source message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol version 3.1 and 3.1.1 MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for "machine to machine" messaging such as with low power senso...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: mosquitto-1.6.7-1.fc30

Mosquitto is an open source message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol version 3.1 and 3.1.1 MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for "machine to machine" messaging such as with low power senso...

[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: mosquitto-1.6.7-1.fc31

Mosquitto is an open source message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol version 3.1 and 3.1.1 MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for "machine to machine" messaging such as with low power senso...

Fedora Update for zeromq FEDORA-2019-8916b4e890

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...