What is a honeypot? How they are used in cybersecurity

Cybersecurity experts strive to enhance the security and privacy of computer systems. Quietly observing threat actors in action can help them understand what they have to defend against. A honeypot is one such tool that enables security professionals to catch bad actors in the act and gather data...

Explained: the cloud

Even if you are reading this post because you have no idea what the cloud is, you might be using it more often than you realize. Twitter, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft Office 365 are some of the most well-known cloud apps. Let’s start with a definition of the cloud to get a grip ...

World Cup Email Scams on the Rise

Cybercrooks have begun punting World Cup ticket and HD TV viewing scams as a successor to earlier lottery-based cons. Read the full article. The Register...

SAP DB / MaxDB Cons Program Arbitrary Command Execution

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dhcpd stack-based buffer overlow

Stack-based buffer overflow in the consoptions function in options.c in dhcpd in OpenBSD 4.0 through 4.2, and some other dhcpd implementations based on ISC dhcp-2, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service daemon crash via a DHCP request specifying a maximum...

[SECURITY] New version of mc released

Package : mc Problem type : local DoS Debian-specific: no Maurycy Prodeus found a problem in cons.saver, a screensaver for the console that is included in the mc package. cons.saver does not check if it is started with a valid stdout, which combined with a bug in its check to see if its argument ...