Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Apport vulnerabilities (USN-2609-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2609-1 advisory. Sander Bos discovered that Apport incorrectly handled permissions when the system was configured to generate core dumps for setuid binaries. A local...

USN-2609-1 apport vulnerabilities

Sander Bos discovered that Apport incorrectly handled permissions when the system was configured to generate core dumps for setuid binaries. A local attacker could use this issue to gain elevated privileges. CVE-2015-1324 Philip Pettersson discovered that Apport contained race conditions resultin...

CVE-2015-1324

Apport before 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1 as packaged in Ubuntu 15.04, before 2.14.70ubuntu8.5 as packaged in Ubuntu 14.10, before 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11 as packaged in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and before 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.9 as packaged in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS allow local users to write to arbitrary files and gain root...

kexec security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:0986 Updated kexec-tools packages that fix one security issue, one bug, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability...

openSUSE Security Update : dbus-1 (openSUSE-SU-2014:1228-1)

DBUS-1 was upgraded to upstream release 1.8. This brings the version of dbus to the latest stable release from an unstable snapshot 1.7.4 that is know to have several regressions - Upstream changes since 1.7.4 : + Security fixes : - Do not accept an extra fd in the padding of a cmsg message, whic...

Localize: Sensitive file

A possible sensitive file has been found. This file is not directly linked from the website. This check looks for common sensitive resources like password files, configuration files, log files, include files, statistics data, database dumps. Each one of these files could help an attacker to learn...

Verizon Releases First Transparency Report, Says Government Requests INcreasing

After months of public calls from privacy advocates and security experts, Verizon on Wednesday released its first transparency report, revealing that it received more than 164,000 subpoenas and between 1,000 and 2,000 National Security Letters in 2013. The report, which covers Verizon’s landline,...

DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4922

cipher.c in the Cipher API in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.10 retains encryption-key data in process memory, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a core file or other representation of memory contents...

abrt: Setuid process core dump archived with unsafe GID permissions

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Navy Hires Contractor to Data-Mine Gaming Consoles

The U.S. Navy recently hired an outside contractor, Obscure Technologies, to develop computer forensics tools capable of analyzing network traffic and stored data on gaming consoles. The contract, valued at $177,237.50, calls on Obscure Technologies to create hardware and software tools that can ...

kexec-tools security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2.0.0-209.0.1.el6 - Make sure '--allow-missing' is effective by adding to MKDUMPRDARGS in kdump.sysconfig, kdump.sysconfig.i386, and kdump.sysconfig.x8664 12590865 11678808 2.0.0-209 - Improve debugfs mounting code, from Dave Young. Resolve bug 748748. 2.0.0-208 - Search DUP firmware directory to...

UMP French Political Party got hacked & personal information leaked

UMP French Political Party got hacked & personal information leaked The personal data of several political parliamentarians, ministers, Minister of UMP French Political Party employees were released online by an unknown source. The leak contain the details of Bernard Accoyer, Lionel Tardy, Jean...

UMP French Political Party got hacked & personal information leaked

UMP French Political Party got hacked & personal information leaked The personal data of several political parliamentarians, ministers, Minister of UMP French Political Party employees were released online by an unknown source. The leak contain the details of Bernard Accoyer, Lionel Tardy, Jean...

Got Pwned? PwnedList.com Knows

With more and more victims of identity theft minted every day, figuring out if you’re one of the unlucky masses with a leaked email password is yeoman’s work. Now one security researcher is trying to make it easy with PwnedList.com, a Web site that collects leaked and stolen data, then tells...

Thehacker12 Dumps Logins for 20,000 Customers and U.S. Employees

Thehacker12 Dumps Logins for 20,000 Customers and U.S. Employees ThEhAcKeR12 has hacked into an events management company and obtained sensitive information belonging to 20,000 individuals, many of whom were United States government employees or contractors. Hacker posted an Excel spreadsheet...

4 big business sites database backup leaked by Serious BLack !

4 big business sites database backup leaked by Serious BLack ! One of the Indian hacker "Serious BLack " found the SQL database backup on the 4 big business sites. These SQL dumps are hosted by Site admins on FTP that has been leaked. Sites are: https://www.assembla.com/ =...

Anonymous Antisec leaks Zimbabwe, Australia and Brazil governments data dumps

Anonymous Antisec leaks Zimbabwe, Australia and Brazil governments data dumps Anonymous Hackers have published a mass of data including passwords that appears to have been stolen from the governments of Brazil, Zimbabwe, Australia and the Caribbean island Anguilla. One of the files released via...

Anonymous Antisec leaks Zimbabwe, Australia and Brazil governments data dumps

Anonymous Antisec leaks Zimbabwe, Australia and Brazil governments data dumps Anonymous Hackers have published a mass of data including passwords that appears to have been stolen from the governments of Brazil, Zimbabwe, Australia and the Caribbean island Anguilla. One of the files released via...

Wireshark 1.5.1 Development Release !

Wireshark 1.5.1 Development Release ! Wireshark 1.5.1 has been released. Installers for Windows, OS X, and source code are now available. New and Updated Features The following features are new or have been significantly updated since version 1.4: 1. Wireshark can import text dumps, similar to...

WikiLeaks

Many people in the security and privacy communities have been aware of the activities of WikiLeaks for several years now, but in 2010 the group hit the mainstream like a hurricane. First came document dumps that revealed embarrassing details about the way the U.S. has conducted the war in Iraq...