[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: mediawiki-1.34.4-1.fc33

MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an excellent range of features and support for high-traffic websites using multiple servers This package supports wiki farms. Read the instructions for creating wiki instances...

Denial of service due to reference expansion in versions earlier than 4.0

Impact The CBOR library supports optional tags that enable CBOR objects to contain references to objects within them. Versions earlier than 4.0 resolved those references automatically. While this by itself doesn't cause much of a security problem, a denial of service can happen if those reference...

[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: mediawiki-1.33.3-1.fc32

MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an excellent range of features and support for high-traffic websites using multiple servers This package supports wiki farms. Read the instructions for creating wiki instances...

[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: mediawiki-1.33.2-1.fc32

MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an excellent range of features and support for high-traffic websites using multiple servers This package supports wiki farms. Read the instructions for creating wiki instances...

Fedora: Security Advisory for mediawiki (FEDORA-2020-d24bd1cad3)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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...

Fedora: Security Advisory for mediawiki (FEDORA-2020-a8ac31fed0)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: mediawiki-1.32.6-1.fc31

MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an excellent range of features and support for high-traffic websites using multiple servers This package supports wiki farms. Read the instructions for creating wiki instances...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: mediawiki-1.32.6-1.fc30

MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an excellent range of features and support for high-traffic websites using multiple servers This package supports wiki farms. Read the instructions for creating wiki instances...

Shlayer, No. 1 Threat for Mac, Targets YouTube, Wikipedia

The malvertising-focused trojan known as Shlayer has burbled to the top of the malware heap when it comes to targeting Mac users. It made up 29 percent of all attacks on macOS devices in Kaspersky’s telemetry for 2019, making it the No. 1 Mac malware threat for the year. To spread, it has been...

FBI Takes Down Site With 12 Billion Stolen Records

Turkey gets Wikipedia back, Mayor Pete loses his cyberguy, and more of the week's top security news...

Netgear Switch Discovery Protocol (NSDP) Detection

Detection of devices supporting the Netgear Switch Discovery Protocol NSDP. 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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: mediawiki-1.32.4-1.fc31

MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an excellent range of features and support for high-traffic websites using multiple servers This package supports wiki farms. Read the instructions for creating wiki instances...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: mediawiki-1.32.4-1.fc30

MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an excellent range of features and support for high-traffic websites using multiple servers This package supports wiki farms. Read the instructions for creating wiki instances...

Wikipedia, World of Warcraft Downed By Weekend DDoS Attacks

Attackers targeted an array of servers with a flurry of distributed denial of service DDoS attacks over the weekend, crippling online encyclopedia Wikipedia, as well as popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft Classic. DDoS attacks are bent on taking websites offline by overwhelming...

Wikipedia suffers DDoS attack causing worldwide service disruption

By Waqas The DDoS attack on Wikipedia is first of its kind. The popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has suffered a DDoS attack over the weekend that crippled its service preventing millions of users from accessing the platform. On Friday according to Down Detector's Outage Map, a service that...

Fedora Update for mediawiki FEDORA-2019-02046db281

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 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...

Reddit Gold: Alice and Bob, Caught in a Web of Lies

Alice and Bob, the beloved or not-so-beloved, depending placeholder characters often used in cryptography examples, have been spotted in the middle of a web of deceit and intrigue by eagle-eyed Redditers. Think lies. Broken hearts. Even…murder. Yep, you heard that right. It all starts with the...

TAU Threat Intelligence Notification – Fake Movie File Attack Targeting Cryptocurrency

A malicious Windows shortcut file is posing as a movie available on a torrent site - its payload is used to conduct web-injection, ultimately targeting victim’s web searches in browsers like Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. The payload has the ability to search for and steal cryptocurrency...

Razy Malware Attacks Browser Extensions to Steal Cryptocurrency

UPDATE A Windows malware dubbed “Razy” has been uncovered that sports a toolbox of cryptocurrency theft and fraud tools. Razy works by weaponizing browser extensions in order to perpetrate a range of online scams on unwitting victims. According to researchers at Kaspersky Lab, the trojan targets...

Emacs - movemail Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Emacs movemail Privilege Escalation', 'Description' = %q This module exploits a SUID installation of the Emacs movemail utility to run a command ...