[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: tor-0.4.2.7-1.fc30

The Tor network is a group of volunteer-operated servers that allows people to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. Tor's users employ this network by connecting through a series of virtual tunnels rather than makin g a direct connection, thus allowing both organizations and...

[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: tor-0.4.2.7-1.fc32

The Tor network is a group of volunteer-operated servers that allows people to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. Tor's users employ this network by connecting through a series of virtual tunnels rather than makin g a direct connection, thus allowing both organizations and...

Ransomware Maze

ARCHIVED STORY Ransomware Maze Alexandre Mundo · MAR 26, 2020 Overview The Maze ransomware, previously known in the community as “ChaCha ransomware”, was discovered on May the 29th 2019 by Jerome Segura1. The main goal of the ransomware is to crypt all files that it can in an infected system and...

Applied ThreadFix: Getting the Most Out of Your Training Investment

As we talked about in an earlier blog post, secure coding training for developers can be expensive. Knowledgeable individuals who are adept at training are relatively rare. Quality training materials are expensive to develop and maintain. For these reasons, solid commercial instructor-led trainin...

Google’s War on Android App Permissions, 60 Percent Successful

Overzealous Android apps that needlessly ask for permissions to handset resources such as contact lists and location data are not only obnoxious, but also potential privacy threats. To address this hot-button issue with Android users Google implemented a strict permission policy designed to curb...

Google Advises Android Developers to Encrypt App Data On Device

Google today published a blog post recommending mobile app developers to encrypt data that their apps generate on the users' devices, especially when they use unprotected external storage that's prone to hijacking. Moreover, considering that there are not many reference frameworks available for t...

CVE-2019-11770

In Eclipse Buildship versions prior to 3.1.1, the build files indicate that this project is resolving dependencies over HTTP instead of HTTPS. Any of these artifacts could have been MITM to maliciously compromise them and infect the build artifacts that were produced. Additionally, if any of thes...

Google Bans 600 Android Apps from Play Store for Serving Disruptive Ads

Google has banned nearly 600 Android apps from the Play Store for bombarding users with disruptive ads and violating its advertising guidelines. The company categorizes disruptive ads as "ads that are displayed to users in unexpected ways, including impairing or interfering with the usability of...

Google Bans 600 Android Apps from Play Store for Serving Disruptive Ads

Google has banned nearly 600 Android apps from the Play Store for bombarding users with disruptive ads and violating its advertising guidelines. The company categorizes disruptive ads as "ads that are displayed to users in unexpected ways, including impairing or interfering with the usability of...

Google Bans 600 Android Apps for Obnoxious Ads

Google has removed nearly 600 Android apps from the Play Store for serving up obnoxious, invasive ads that aren’t easily “x’d” out of. The internet giant said the enforcement action was a strike against mobile ad fraud. Google said Thursday that the apps violated its disruptive ads policy – and a...

CVE-2019-20478

In ruamel.yaml through 0.16.7, the load method allows remote code execution if the application calls this method with an untrusted argument. In other words, this issue affects developers who are unaware of the need to use methods such as safeload in these use cases...

Remote code execution

In ruamel.yaml through 0.16.7, the load method allows remote code execution if the application calls this method with an untrusted argument. In other words, this issue affects developers who are unaware of the need to use methods such as safeload in these use cases...

[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: mbedtls-2.16.4-1.fc31

Mbed TLS is a light-weight open source cryptographic and SSL/TLS library written in C. Mbed TLS makes it easy for developers to include cryptographic and SSL/TLS capabilities in their embedded applications with as little hassle as possible. FOSS License Exception:...

5 identity priorities for 2020

Today, Joy Chik, Corporate Vice President of Identity, shared five priorities central to security that organizations should prioritize in 2020 as they digitally transform. These priorities are based on many conversations with our customers, including: 1. Connect all applications and cloud resourc...

[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: python36-3.6.10-1.fc31

Python 3.6 package for developers. This package exists to allow developers to test their code against an older version of Python. This is not a full Python stack and if you wish to run your applications with Python 3.6, see other distributions that support it, such as CentOS or RHEL with Software...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: python36-3.6.10-1.fc30

Python 3.6 package for developers. This package exists to allow developers to test their code against an older version of Python. This is not a full Python stack and if you wish to run your applications with Python 3.6, see other distributions that support it, such as CentOS or RHEL with Software...

Fedora Update for python39 FEDORA-2019-03cf68b75d

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 30 Update: python39-3.9.0~a2-1.fc30

Python 3.9 package for developers. This package exists to allow developers to test their code against a newer version of Python. This is not a full Python stack and if you wish to run your applications with Python 3.9, update your Fedora to a newer version once Python 3.9 is stable...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: python38-3.8.1-1.fc30

Python 3.8 package for developers. This package exists to allow developers to test their code against a newer version of Python. This is not a full Python stack and if you wish to run your applications with Python 3.8, update your Fedora to a newer version once Python 3.8 is stable...

[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: python39-3.9.0~a2-1.fc31

Python 3.9 package for developers. This package exists to allow developers to test their code against a newer version of Python. This is not a full Python stack and if you wish to run your applications with Python 3.9, update your Fedora to a newer version once Python 3.9 is stable...