Fedora: Security Advisory for python-cryptography (FEDORA-2021-8e36e7ed1a)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2021 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...

Researchers Uncover Android Spying Campaign Targeting Pakistan Officials

Two new Android surveillanceware families have been found to target military, nuclear, and election entities in Pakistan and Kashmir as part of a pro-India, state-sponsored hacking campaign. Dubbed Hornbill and Sunbird, the malware impersonates legitimate or seemingly innocuous services to cover...

[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: python3.10-3.10.0~a5-1.fc33

Python 3.10 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 3.10, update your Fedora to a newer version once Python 3.10 is stable...

Over a Dozen Chrome Extensions Caught Hijacking Google Search Results for Millions

New details have emerged about a vast network of rogue extensions for Chrome and Edge browsers that were found to hijack clicks to links in search results pages to arbitrary URLs, including phishing sites and ads. Collectively called "CacheFlow" by Avast, the 28 extensions in question — including...

[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: python39-3.9.1-2.fc32

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 33 Update: python3.8-3.8.7-2.fc33

Python 3.8 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 3.8, see other distributions that support it, such as an older Fedora release...

Google Boots 164 Apps from Play Marketplace for Shady Ad Practices

Google has removed 164 apps, downloaded a total of 10 million times, from its Google Play marketplace because they were delivering “disruptive” ads, considered malicious. Last year, the tech giant banned apps that delivered this type of advertising, called out-of-context ads. But the problem...

Coalfire acquires penetration testing management platform

Over the past year, Coalfire has worked closely in partnership with Neuralys, a penetration testing management platform. Today, Coalfire is ecstatic to announce the acquisition of Neuralys, and welcome its founders, developers and sales team to our organization...

Coturn 4.5.1.x Access Control Bypass

Loopback access control bypass in coturn by using 0.0.0.0, ::1 or :: as the peer address - Fixed version: 4.5.2 - Enable Security Advisory: https://github.com/EnableSecurity/advisories/tree/master/ES2021-01-coturn-access-control-bypass - Coturn Security Advisory:...

Code injection

A misconfiguration in Web-Sesame 2020.1.1.3375 allows an unauthenticated attacker to download the source code of the application, facilitating its comprehension code review. Specifically, JavaScript source maps were inadvertently included in the production Webpack configuration. These maps contai...

[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: tor-0.4.4.6-1.fc33

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...

CVE-2020-29510

The encoding/xml package in Go versions 1.15 and earlier does not correctly preserve the semantics of directives during tokenization round-trips, which allows an attacker to craft inputs that behave in conflicting ways during different stages of processing in affected downstream applications...

48 U.S. States and FTC are suing Facebook for illegal monopolization

The US Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of 48 state attorneys general on Wednesday filed a pair of sweeping antitrust suits against Facebook, alleging that the company abused its power in the marketplace to neutralize competitors through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp and...

Reverse Engineering Tools: Evaluating the True Cost

When sourcing software for business needs, what criteria should you follow? Price typically tops the list. And sure, free software, like the Linux OS, delivers cost savings, stability, flexibility and ongoing development. No argument there. But when it comes to decompilers, which are used for...

Several Unpatched Popular Android Apps Put Millions of Users at Risk of Hacking

A number of high-profile Android apps are still using an unpatched version of Google's widely-used app update library, potentially putting the personal data of hundreds of millions of smartphone users at risk of hacking. Many popular apps, including Grindr, Bumble, OkCupid, Cisco Teams, Moovit,...

WebNavigator Chromium browser published by search hijackers

A mystery Chromium browser recently made a sudden appearance, and is certainly proving popular. But what is it, and where did it come from? Malwarebytes detects the browser as PUP.Optional.WebNavigator, and we found several clues that this browser was brought to you by a notorious family of searc...

Inrupt’s Solid Announcement

Earlier this year, I announced that I had joined Inrupt, the company commercializing Tim Berners-Lees Solid specification: The idea behind Solid is both simple and extraordinarily powerful. Your data lives in a pod that is controlled by you. Data generated by your things -- your computer, your...

APICheck - The DevSecOps Toolset For REST APIs

APICheck is a complete toolset designed and created for testing REST APIs. Why APICheck APICheck focuses not only in the security testing and hacking use cases. The goal of the project is to become a complete toolset for DevSecOps cycles. The tools are aimed to diverse users profiles: Developers...

Decoder++ - An Extensible Application For Penetration Testers And Software Developers To Decode/Encode Data Into Various Formats

An extensible application for penetration testers and software developers to decode/encode data into various formats. Setup Decoder++ can be either installed by using pip or by pulling the source from this repository: Install using pip pip3 install decoder-plus-plus Overview This section provides...

[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: python34-3.4.10-11.fc32

Python 3.4 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 3.4, see other distributions that support it, such as CentOS or RHEL with Software...