Mapbox: Mapbox Android SDK uses Broadcast Receiver instead of Local Broadcast Manager

Security researcher @mishre reported that the Mapbox Android SDK was using the Broadcast Receiver for location services requests and recommended that the switch be made to use the Local Broadcast Manager. The Local Broadcast Manager offers more granular control of broadcast permissions, as well a...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: firefox-50.1.0-1.fc23

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

Exploit Development IDE: Exploit Pack

Exploit Development IDE Exploit Pack is a full IDE for exploit development and penetration testing with base workspace and an extensible module system. It is written mostly in JAVA but its modules use Python as an engine and it can be used to develop packages or tools which then can be run inside...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: firefox-50.1.0-1.fc25

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ceph Storage 2.1 security and bug fix update

An update is now available for Red Hat Ceph Storage 2.1. This erratum is for Red Hat Ceph Storage that runs on Ubuntu 16.04. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severi...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ceph Storage 2.1 security and bug fix update

An update is now available for Red Hat Ceph Storage 2.1. This erratum is for Red Hat Ceph Storage that runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a...

Microsoft, Google to Block Flash by Default in Edge, Chrome

The acceleration of Flash’s ride off into the sunset hit top speed with Microsoft on Wednesday following up a similar announcement last week from Google that it would block Flash by default in the Edge browser. Google confirmed last Friday that it would be moving to HTML5 by default in Chrome in ...

MS16-148: Description of the security update for Excel 2013: December 13, 2016

MS16-148: Description of the security update for Excel 2013: December 13, 2016 Summary This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Office file. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, see Microsoft...

MS16-148: Description of the security update for Excel 2016: December 13, 2016

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OSINT Chrome Extension: ThreatPinch Lookup

OSINT Chrome Extension ThreatPinch was designed to enable information security professionals quick reference checks for commonly looked up indicators without having to leave the comfort of their current webpage. Be it, IPv4 addresses, MD5/SHA2 hashes, these indicators are usually copied and paste...

Real Time Performance Monitoring: netdata

Real Time Performance Monitoring Netdata is a daemon that collects data in realtime per second and presents a web site to view and analyze them. The presentation is also real-time and full of interactive charts that precisely render all collected values. netdata is the fastest way to visualize...

Release Notes for Veeam Management Pack 8.0 Update 3

Challenge Release Notes for Veeam Management Pack 8.0 Update 3 Cause Please confirm you are running Veeam Management Pack 8.0 prior to installing this update. You can check this in Operations Manager console under Administration | Management Packs, the build number should be 8.0.0.2218 or later. ...

Google Android kernel performance subsystem elevation of privilege vulnerability

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system jointly developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance OHA, of which the Kernel Performance Subsystem is a kernel performance component. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the kernel performance subsystem in Android. The...

Google Android kernel performance subsystem elevation of privilege vulnerability (CNVD-2016-12173)

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system jointly developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance OHA, of which the Kernel Performance Subsystem is a kernel performance component. The kernel performance subsystem in Android is vulnerable to a power lifting vulnerability. The...

openSUSE Security Update : mariadb (openSUSE-2016-1417)

This mariadb update to version 10.0.28 fixes the following issues bsc1008318 : Security fixes : - CVE-2016-8283: Unspecified vulnerability in subcomponent Types bsc1005582 - CVE-2016-7440: Unspecified vulnerability in subcomponent Encryption bsc1005581 - CVE-2016-5629: Unspecified vulnerability i...

openSUSE Security Update : mariadb (openSUSE-2016-1416)

This mariadb update to version 10.0.28 fixes the following issues bsc1008318 : Security fixes : - CVE-2016-8283: Unspecified vulnerability in subcomponent Types bsc1005582 - CVE-2016-7440: Unspecified vulnerability in subcomponent Encryption bsc1005581 - CVE-2016-5629: Unspecified vulnerability i...

Ubuntu-based PenTest Linux Distribution: BackBox

BackBox Linux is a penetration testing and security assessment oriented Linux distribution providing a network and systems analysis toolkit. It includes some of the most commonly known/used security and analysis tools, aiming for a wide spread of goals, ranging from web application analysis to...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE 13.1 kernel was updated to 3.12.67 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2013-5634: arch/arm/kvm/arm.c in the Linux kernel on the ARM platform, when KVM is used, allowed host OS users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer...

Fun hacks for faster content

A few weeks ago I was at Heathrow airport getting a bit of work done before a flight, and I noticed something odd about the performance of GitHub: It was quicker to open links in a new window than simply click them. Here's a video I took at the time: GitHub link click vs new tab Here I click a...

Hashcat v3.20 - World's Fastest and Most Advanced Password Recovery Utility

hashcat is the world's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility, supporting five unique modes of attack for over 160 highly-optimized hashing algorithms. hashcat currently supports CPU's, GPU's other hardware-accelerators on Linux, Windows and OSX, and has facilities to help enable...